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: 20 Feb – 27 Feb 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

• Migration of pagure.io repositories continues
• Ansible repository now has CI running in runner
• Resolved errors on dist-git that were spamming sysadmin-main mailbox – ticket

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

• Fix `automotive10s-packages-main-el10s-build` inheritance to inherit from `autosd10s-packages-main-release`
• Extend underlying storage for OKD/SCoS deliverables
• Add kernel-rpm-macros to the buildroot of automotive10s-packages-main-el10s-build
• Rebase/align mailman3 packages stack for el 9.7
• Clarify debuginfod.centos.org Stream 8 usage (and take action)
• Investigate current hardware situation

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

• Release engineering is currently in Beta Freeze.
• Releng has provided the first beta release candidate after the QE request.
• Request for creating detached signature has been handled by Samyak for ignition 2.26.0 release.

RISC-V

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

• Continued to go through the list of packages to investigate (failing to build; requires patching, and more).
  • Got a PR merged for ‘libkrunfw’ (a low-level library for process isolation) and built it in RISC-V Koji; Marcin (“hrw”) also got a couple more merged.
• Work is progressing well on Fedora RISC-V unified kernels (Jason Montleon is doing most of the heavy-lifting here).  Currently hosted in Copr.

AI

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

• Worked on the AI-powered This Week in Fedora.
• Updated ai-code-review to use Gemini 3.1 Pro by default
• Nexus team: interesting experience using Claude to refactor fedora-easy-karma, on review we found it made multiple unrequested functionality changes which complicated the review, after discussion decided to re-prompt it to avoid functionality changes

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 Beta testing in full swing
• Kernel 6.19 test week in progress, please contribute
• Help wanted: if anyone can help figure out why F44 boot occasionally just hangs for no very obvious reason that’d be great (details in bug)

Forgejo

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

• Create and present Fedora -> Forgejo efforts during FOSDEM 2026 Distributions Devroom [Video] [Followup]
• Pagure migration doc: add follow-up checklist based on Nexus team’s [Review]
• Create new organisation and namespace on Fedora Forge for Fedora Join [Followup] [Namespace]
• Rename “translations” into “localization-docs” [Followup][Namespace]
  • Remedy mapping after renaming translations to localization-docs [Commit]
• Migrating NeuroFedora SIG [Followup][Namespace][Update]
  • Perform mapping for NeuroFedora SIG teams and groups [Commit] [Followup]
• New Organization and Teams Request: Fedora KDE [Followup][Triaged]
  • Perform mapping for Fedora KDE teams and groups [Commit]
• REST API: Create private issue & foundational work [Followup]
• Runner for forge organization [Followup]
• Refactor the ansible-role-forgejo-runner role task now configured and deploy the runners using ansible-pull 
• Clean out the spam from Pagure.io [Followup]
• Refactor internal APIs for public vs. private issue identity [Followup][Feature]

EPEL

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

• Completed EPEL 10.2 mass branching in preparation for the upcoming RHEL 10.2 release (announcement)

UX

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

• Madeline’s  F45 Wallpaper Process Update:  blog post / discussion post
• The Fedora Design Team has switched to using Google Meet for our weekly meetings to utilise Gemini for note-taking. Discussion took place on this ticket and on our weekly call. Updated Fedocal entry can be found here. 
• Forgejo migration: Sprint board created, tickets currently being imported, remaining assets currently being imported / reorganised.

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