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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Dave Cantrell (dcantrell)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with Dave Cantrell

  • FAS ID: dcantrell
  • Matrix Rooms: Looking right now it appears Fedora Council, FRCL, Introductions, Announcements, Fedora Meeting, and Fedora Meeting 1. I tend to go to rooms that people ask me to join. I also use it a lot for DMs and people find me that way. For me primarily I rely on Matrix for our online meetings and DMs with people. Email continues to be the most reliable way to reach me and have a conversation.
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F43 FESCo Elections: Interview with Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts today, Wednesday 17th December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7th January 2026.

Interview with Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

  • FAS ID: zbyszek
  • Matrix Rooms: #devel:fedoraproject.org, #reproducible-builds:fedora.im, #jenkins-coreos:fedoraproject.org, #coreos:fedoraproject.org, #quality:fedoraproject.org
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Important Update: Fedora Linux 43 Election Schedule Extended

TL;DNR: The Fedora Linux 43 Election schedule has been extended. Voting will now take place from 15 December 2025 through 7 January 2026.

Due to unforeseen delays in the interview coordination process, we are adjusting the election timeline. To ensure all candidates have ample opportunity to present their platforms and the community has sufficient time to vote, the election period will now extend through the year-end holidays.

Please mark your calendars with the following new critical dates:

📅 New Election Schedule

  • Interview Submission Deadline (Extended): Now through Friday, 12 December 2025 at 23:59 UTC (Candidates: Please ensure your responses are submitted by this time.)
  • Voting Setup & Interview Publishing: Monday, 15 December 2025 (Voter guides and interviews will be published to the community on this date.)
  • Voting Period Opens: Monday, 15 December 2025
  • Voting Period Closes: Wednesday, 7 January 2026 at 23:59 UTC
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Community Update – Week 49

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

Week: December 1 – December 5 2025

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

  • Pagure.io migration happened earlier in the week, expected disruption during that (https://status.fedoraproject.org for details)
  • RDU2-CC -> RDU3 DC move next week
  • OpenID finally has a date to be retired – we have a separate OpenID instance of Ipsilon that serves a warning (ticket)
  • Weblate legal issues raised by the community to the Council
  • Survived Thanksgiving without major fires 🙂
  • Ongoing work on the Keycloak migration

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

RISC-V

  • (Things are chugging along.)
  • F43 rebuild is still ongoing.  The diff with primary arch is now about ~1K packages.  Still ironing out some rough edges.  (A bug with “debugedit” is affecting a number of packages.)
  • Jason Montleon published some board-specific F43  kernels
  • We’re working on putting together the RISC-V devroom at FOSDEM.

Forgejo

Updates of the team responsible for Fedora Forge deployment and customization.
Ticket tracker

  • Handled empty dates in Pagure milestone migration in the Forgejo upstream [Issue] [PR]
  • Initial preparation work being carried out to deploy the Forgejo “dist-git” instance – konflux pipelines for distgit are ready, with images with stable fedora available on quay. 
  • 5+ new teams have organizations on Forge now. 
  • Forgejo runners can be scoped to global/organization/individual on staging.
  • [Docs] Starting to migrate select repositories, first one to be the Release Notes

QE

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

Test Day:2025-12-02 FreeIPA-WebUI Test Day

FreeIPA Web UI Test Week

The FreeIPA WebUI became new interface for freeipa

How to Participate during testday

  1. Test the WebUI – Follow the installation instructions on the Test Day wiki page
  2. Explore and experiment – Try different features and workflows
  3. Share your thoughts here – Post your comments, ideas, and UX findings in this discussion
  4. File bugs – If you encounter actual bugs, please file them in the upstream bug tracker

End of OpenID in Fedora

It’s finally here. We have an end date for OpenID in Fedora. The date is 1st May 2026. You can see it on the banner on https://id.fedoraproject.org/openid and it will be shown to you every time when trying to authenticate with OpenID. The date 1st May 2026 should give anybody still using OpenID authentication enough time to migrate to OpenID Connect.

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Community Update – Week 47

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

Week: 17 November – 21 November 2025

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

  • The intermittent 503 timeout issues plaguing the infra appear to finally be resolved, kudos to Kevin and the Networking team for tracking it down. 🎉
  • The Power10 hosts which caused the outage last week are now installed and ready for use.
  • Crashlooping OCP worker caused issues with log01 disk space
  • Monitoring migration to Zabbix is moving along, with discussions of when to make it “official”.
  • AI scrapers continue to cause significant load. A change has been made to bring some of the hits to src.fpo under the Varnish cache, which may help.
  • Update/reboot cycle planned for this week.

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

RISC-V

  • F43 RISC-V rebuild status: the delta for F43 RISC-V is still about ~2.5K packages compared to F43 primary. Current plan: once we hit ~2K package delta, we’ll start focusing on the quality of the rebuild and fix whatever important stuff that needs fixing. (Here is the last interim update to the community.)
  • Community highlight: David Abdurachmanov (Rivos Inc) has been doing excellent work on Fedora 43 rebuild, doing a lot of heavy-lifting. He also provides quite some personal hardware for Koji rebuilders.

Forgejo

Updates of the team responsible for Fedora Forge deployment and customization.
Ticket tracker

List of new releases of apps maintained by I&R Team

Minor update of FMN from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0
Minor update of FASJSON from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0
Minor update of Noggin from 1.10.0 to 1.11.0

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

A statement concerning the Fedora and Flathub relationship from the FPL

Hi,
I’m Jef, the Fedora Project Leader.

As FPL I believe Fedora needs to be part of a healthy flatpak ecosystem.  I’d like to share my journey in working towards that over the last few months with you all, and include some of the insights that I’ve gained. I hope by sharing this with you it will encourage those who share my belief to join with me in the journey to take us to a better future for Fedora and the entire ecosystem.

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 46 2025

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 10th – 14th November 2025

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F43 election nominations now open

Today, the Fedora Project begins the nomination period during which we accept nominations to the “steering bodies” of the following teams:

This period is open until Wednesday, 2025-11-26 at 23:59:59 UTC.

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