This is a part of the Fedora Linux 44 Council Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts Monday, June 1st and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Friday, June 12th 2026.

Interview with Miro Hrončok (churchyard)

  • FAS ID: churchyard (you may also find me as mhroncok)
  • Matrix Rooms: python:fedoraproject.org, devel:fedoraproject.org, council:fedoraproject.org, and many more

Questions

What kind of experience do you have which might be relevant to the role? E.g Governance, leadership, etc.

I’ve been an active Fedora contributor for over 12 years, co‑maintaining the Python and 3D‑printing stacks and sponsoring new packagers.
I served on FESCo for 5 years and I’ve been on the Council for 1 year. Technically I am on the Fedora Packaging Committee as well, but I am not very active there nowadays.

Through those roles I’ve gained understanding of how Fedora is built and governed. I wish to keep that experience in the Fedora Council and ensure that the people who do the day‑to‑day work of creating Fedora Linux have a strong, informed voice at the table.

I spent my first year on the Council mostly orienting myself and I am not very satisfied with my accomplishments (or lack thereof).
I was contemplating whether to not run again or to try harder. As you are reading this interview, it means I decided for the latter 🙂


What do you see as potential opportunities and risks for the Fedora Project?

My overall feeling after spending a year in this role is that there is this abyss between the Council and all the folks doing all things Fedora, like packaging. On one hand, we speak about initiatives, visions, and goals. On the other hand, there is Fedora Linux and people who make it. And I don’t feel like one hand knows what the other hand is doing. This has been frustrating to me and I decided to try to bridge that gap. I don’t have a ready-made solution for this yet, but it’s something that I strongly believe needs to be addressed and reflected in what Council is doing, approving, proposing.

Related to this, I feel that there is a more general risk of fragmentation of the community. For example, we seem to have moved some communication to discussion.fedoraproject.org while we kept others on the mailing lists. This move was a great opportunity to get more people involved in project discussions. At the same time, we risk losing the existing contributors. In the end, it seems we have two almost distinct groups of people who don’t talk to each other much.

No matter how many new contributors we get, we should not lose the existing ones, who are driving the project.

What brought you to the Fedora Project?

It was actually 3D printing.
Back in the day, we had a lab at the university with 1 (one) Prusa Mendel in it and I wanted to package some 3D printing apps like Skeinforge, Slic3r or Printrun for Fedora. I attended an RPM packaging workshop in the Brno Red Hat office and started packaging.
Not long after that I became a Fedora Ambassador, bringing the 3D printer to the Fedora booth at conferences.