This is a report created by CLE Team, which is a team containing community members working in various Fedora groups for example Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Quality etc. This team is also moving forward some initiatives inside Fedora project.

Week: 02 – 06 March 2026

Fedora Infrastructure

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora Infrastructure.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora infrastructure.
Ticket tracker

  • Migrated remaining pagure.io repositories, there is one remaining, but needs to have private issues implemented
  • Provide DNS domain name for konflux (ticket)
  • Meeting with the IPA-tuura team to move forward with the Ipsilon replacement project

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding CentOS Infrastructure and CentOS Stream Infrastructure.
It’s responsible for services running in CentOS Infratrusture and CentOS Stream.
CentOS ticket tracker
CentOS Stream ticket tracker

Release Engineering

This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora releases.
It’s responsible for releases, retirement process of packages and package builds.
Ticket tracker

  • Still in Beta Freeze, we have had a couple of release candidate composes for Fedora 44 Beta.
  • GO/NO-GO call for the Beta Release is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, March 5th.

RISC-V

This is the summary of the work done regarding the RISC-V architecture in Fedora.

  • Continue to comb through the list of Fedora packages that need work —  submit changes to Fedora / upstream, review patches from others, and submit builds as needed.
  • Build/test the RISC-V unified kernel.
  • Figured out logistics for 24-h remote access to SpacemiT ‘K3’ hardware (based on RVA230
  • Discussed with the RISC-V SIG and Fedora docs about migrating the Fedora RISC-V docs from the wiki to forge.
  • Figure out the prerequisites for F44 builds — toolchain dependencies are being sorted out.

AI

This is the summary of the work done regarding AI in Fedora.

QE

This team is taking care of quality of Fedora. Maintaining CI, organizing test days
and keeping an eye on overall quality of Fedora releases.

  • Fedora 44 RCs are now available and under heavy testing. The Go/NoGo is scheduled in a few days. Lots of blocker (and not blocker) bugs were discovered, discussed, voted on and resolved. 
  • Kernel 6.19 test days are complete and Podman 5.8 test days are under way.
  • A new version of BlockerBugs bot was implemented and deployed to staging, which should allow us to migrate blocker voting repository from Pagure to Forge (ticket).
  • Our cloud automation now reports results to the production wiki for each new compose.
  • The refactoring of Fedora Easy Karma was merged to the main branch. All places with links were also updated wrt the recent transition to Forge, and the migration is now done for this repo.
  • Forge QA repos now has a reusable workflow for an AI review.
  • More bugs hitting OpenQA automated testing were resolved, some some particular ones are very hard to debug, e.g. an ibus hang or an xdg-desktop-portal crash.

Forgejo

This team is working on introduction of https://forge.fedoraproject.org to Fedora
and migration of repositories from pagure.io.

  • [Forgejo] New Organization and Teams Request: Fedora KDE [Followup]
  • [Forgejo] Participated in the Forge review, planning and retrospective meet with Rodney, Nils, Ryan and David [Board]
  • [Forgejo] New organisation for Fedora Code of Conduct committee + migration [Followup] [Namespace] [Followup]
  • [Forgejo] New repo for Security SIG [Followup] [Namespace] [Followup] [Followup]
  • [Forgejo] New Organization and Teams Request: Fedora Btrfs [Followup] [Namespace]
  • [Docs] Will be migrating Release Notes imminently + branching for F44, contributions welcome once the repo appears on Forgejo
  • Forgejo runners added for orgs mindshare and apps
  • Private Issues
    • Unit tests for code ⇔ DB boundary (Issue & PrivateIssue: done, related types: ongoing)
    • Verify, debug and fix DB migration

UX

This team is working on improving User experience. Providing artwork, user experience,
usability, and general design services to the Fedora project

  • Updated all references to Fedora Design ticket tracker to point to Forgejo [ticket], migration of tickets still wip, but significant progress made.

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #admin:fedoraproject.org channel on matrix.