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F44 FESCo Elections: Interview with Fabio Valentini (decathorpe)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 44 FESCo 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 Fabio Valentini (decathorpe)

  • FAS ID: decathorpe
  • Matrix Rooms: Too many to list them all: #devel, #rust, #epel, #multimedia, #pride, #python, #quality, #security, … (on the fedoraproject.org homeserver)
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F44 FESCo Elections: Interview with Neal Gompa (ngompa)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 44 FESCo 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 Neal Gompa (ngompa)

  • FAS ID: ngompa (Conan Kudo is a common nickname for me)
  • Matrix Rooms: devel:fedoraproject.org, #asahi:fedoraproject.org, #asahi-devel:fedoraproject.org, #kde:fedoraproject.org, #workstation:fedoraproject.org, #cloud:fedoraproject.org, #kernel:fedoraproject.org #centos-hyperscale:fedoraproject.org, #budgie:fedoraproject.org, #multimedia:fedoraproject.org, #miracle:fedoraproject.org, #cosmic:fedoraproject.org, #centos-kernel:fedora.im, #admin:opensuse.org, #chat:opensuse.org, #bar:opensuse.org, #obs:opensuse.org, #RedHat:matrix.org, #networkmanager:matrix.org, #rpm:matrix.org, #rpm-ecosystem:matrix.org, #yum:matrix.org, #manatools:matrix.org, #lugaru:matrix.org, #buddiesofbudgie-dev:matrix.org, #PackageKit:matrix.org, #mir-server:matrix.org, #mageia-dev:matrix.org, #kiwi:matrix.org (There’s quite a bit more, but I think that sort of covers it. 😉) (There’s quite a bit more, but I think that sort of covers it. 😉)
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F44 FESCo Elections: Interview with Simon de Vlieger (supakeen)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 44 FESCo 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 Simon de Vlieger (supakeen)

  • FAS ID: supakeen
  • Matrix Rooms: I am in many rooms but most active in the Release Engineering, ELN, bootc, Atomic Desktops, and my projects Image Builder channel.
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F44 FESCo Elections: Interview with Michel Lind (salimma)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 44 FESCo 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 Michel Lind (salimma)

  • FAS ID: salimma
  • Matrix Rooms: #Fedora Devel, #Fedora EPEL, #Fedora ELN, #Fedora Golang, #Fedora Python, #Fedora Rust, #Fedora Security Team, #Fedora Social, #CentOS Devel, #CentOS Hyperscale, #CentOS Promo, #CentOS Proposed Updates
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F44 FESCo Elections: Interview Maxwell G (gotmax23)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 44 FESCo 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 Maxwell G (gotmax23)

  • FAS ID: gotmax23
  • Matrix Rooms: Fedora Devel, Fedora Golang, Fedora Python, and I loiter in a bunch of other places!
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F44 FESCo Elections: Interview with Adam Miller (maxamillion)

This is a part of the Fedora Linux 44 FESCo 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 Adam Miller (maxamillion)

  • FAS ID: maxamillion
  • Matrix Rooms: fedora: #fedoraproject.org, #fedora ai:fedoraproject.org (AI/ML SIG), #fedora bootc:fedoraproject.org, #epel:fedoraproject.org, #fedora releng:fedoraproject.org
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Community Update – Week 22

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: 25 – 29 May 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

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 Infrastructure and CentOS Stream.
CentOS ticket tracker
CentOS Stream ticket tracker

  • Greg continues to hold the fort as well as possible
  • Another mirror request in progress
  • Stream mirror sync seems to have caught up from its slowness last week
  • SELinux issue in the Stream GitLab runners, debugged and restored with S.Gallagher
  • Many Let’s Encrypt SSL certs due for renewal, currently in progress

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

  • Fedora 42 will reach END OF LIFE on Wednesday, May 27th, 2026

RISC-V

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

  • F44 rebuild: 99% of it is done
    • Blocker now unblocked: A large Qt 6.11 update (500+ packages) is in progress, which was previously blocked by qt-webengine. The necessary patches have been rebased, so the update can now proceed.
    • Cloud and server images are unblocked. Still need to do the kiwi-descriptions; in progress
  • Currently short on time due to various resource constraints.
  • Hardware
    • An additional P550 board has been added to the Fedora RISC-V build farm
    • Sorting out the process to procure two K3 units for Fedora RISC-V Koji builders.
  • Migrating from Forge: plans to migrate the secondary dist-git overlay to forge.fp.o/riscv
  • SpacemiT K3 benchmarks continued.  We have some good incremental improvements

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.

  • More and better docs, continued tech debt repayment and app improvements, openQA ELN coverage enhancement and start on cycle upgrades, also see items in AI section above
  • We’ve created a Guides & How-Tos category for Fedora Quality Docs, and try to populate it with useful articles. More will come.
  • Issuebot PR posted for review 
  • Tech debt work: improvements to blockerbugs health check and its usage, modernization and fixes for Issuebot
  • openQA stuff: extended ELN coverage, upgraded staging to Fedora 44, updated os-autoinst to latest upstream on staging, discovered a weird bug that needs working out before going to prod

Forgejo

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

  • Move Fedora Badges static assets from Pagure to Forgejo [Followup]
  • Incorrect commit display for some PRs [Followup
  • Zabbix template for Forgejo Runner VM deployed on staging (wip)
  • Forge runners: lightweight image option added: tested and provided to ci org 
  • Forge 15.0.1 on production, 15.0.2 on Staging

EPEL

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

UX

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

  • Focusing on Flock deliverables

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

Fedora at 20th Linux Session

On the weekend of April 25th/26th 2026, the 20th Linux Session was held in Wrocław, 🇵🇱 Poland. The Session is one of the oldest and biggest FLOSS-focused conferences in Poland. The event was organized by Akademickie Stowarzyszenie Informatyczne (Academic Informatics Association) at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

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Community Update – Week 21 2026

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: 18 – 22 May 2026

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Fedora and CentOS @ SCALE 23x 2026

Our remarkable Fedora ambassador, CentOS, and associate crews delivered live face-to-face support and outreach via our Fedora and CentOS @ SCALE 23x Linux Conference.

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