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: 13 – 17 Apr 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

• [Badges/Outreachy] Reviewed over 15 pull requests across Tahrir and Tahrir API
• Requesting a new FAS group for quick-docs
• investigate why devel-announce posts are not sending to devel
• heavybuilder request for ROCm packages
• Anubis breaks openQA developer mode (websockets)
• Quality Blockerbugs app secret storage update
• websites not being build till 20th Jan 2026
• packages app is down: `Error communicating with Solr`

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

• Add Konflux to the allow-list of content Generators for Koji
• Hardware issue (failed HDD) on a storage host in Stream Infra
• CBS signing maintenance
• isa riscv – add another external repo
• isa riscv buildroot tweeks
• DC maintenance on www pool members

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

• Producing release candidates for Fedora 44 Final release.
• F44 GO/NO-GO meeting is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, April 16th.
• Some work related to the migration to Forgejo..
• OpenH264 RPMs are now published for F44 and Rawhide (F45).
• Otherwise business as usual operations.

RISC-V

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

• F44 rebuild in full swing:
  • GCC 16 builds slowed down some progress, but a workaround version was used to compensate.
  • The diff with F43 is about 1K packages
• Discussed setting up Pungi for “compose’ artifacts (installation & kickstart trees, ISOs, etc)
• RISC-V “omni kernels” (formerly “unified kernel”)
  • kernel 7.0 is in the mainline repository and work is proceeding normally (Jason)
  • A new f44-omni tag and target will be in Koji to support a single omni kernel.

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.

• Still focused on F44 Final validation and blocker resolution. Early release target was missed due to unfixed blockers, target #1 is still possible but at risk, still waiting on blocker fixes: Plasma network config issue related to NetworkManager, GNOME initial setup hang on NVIDIA (airlied is making progress on this one as I type)
• Reported an issue affecting the Carbon Gen 13 laptop model, i.e. affecting future CSB and associates laptops. Notified the CSB team.

Forgejo

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

• [Forgejo] Include documentation for Forgejo W2FM support [Commit] [Resolved]
• [Forgejo] Move Fedora Badges static assets from Pagure to Forgejo [Triaged]
• [Forgejo] Private Issues, Web UI: List the private issues in its separate section [Triaged] [Followup]
• [Forgejo] Private Issues, Web UI: Show the private issue ticket contents [Triaged] [Followup]
• Bunch of new runners for various orgs deployed
• Automated runner VM creation: last pieces of automation added (ansible pull and podman socket setting) and tested on staging
• 14.0.4 Forge image ready to be deployed on staging, RPM package built and available in testing
• Investigating the option of providing aarch64 runners
• Private Issues: shared branch created, blocking items identified and being addressed (rebase ongoing)

EPEL

This team is working on keeping Epel running and helping package things.

• Routine packaging work, including backporting multiple CVE fixes to tinyproxy and python-cbor2.  Also filed eight FTI (fail-to-install) bugs and updated three packages.
• Refinement work on EPEL minor EOL SOP, which will be used next month when EPEL 10.1 reaches EOL.
• Continued collaboration with RHEL Lightspeed team on goose packaging work.

UX

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

• Emma was on the Fedora Podcast with Justin to talk about Flock 2026 and the branding! [Youtube link]
• Continuing working with contributor on poster about getting involved with Fedora community [Ticket link]
• Some progress on Flock designs [Ticket link]

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