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Outreachy Internship Update: Building the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API

As part of my Outreachy internship with the Fedora Project, I’m building an API to modernize how Fedora plans its release cycles.

With the help of my mentor Tomáš Hrčka, the goal is to replace the current XML-heavy system currently on pagure.io with something flexible, easy to use, and well-structured.

Explore the source code on Codeberg: Fedora Release Schedule Planner.

Why This Project Matters

Fedora’s current release planning tools rely on manual XML editing, which is challenging for newcomers and difficult to scale. This project aims to:

Improve contributor experience with interactive API documentation.
Support seamless querying and updating of release data.
Allow smoother integration with Fedora’s broader tooling.

Progress Highlights

Framework migration:
- Transitioned from Flask to FastAPI (PR Link)
- Leveraged Pydantic for data validation due to deep integration with FastAPI
- Introduced auto-generated Swagger documentation

Documentation for the release schedule planner API

Code refactor:
- Adopted modular architecture with clean routing (PR Link)
- Standardized endpoint naming
CI/CD setup:
- Integrated a CI pipeline using Forgejo Actions for automated testing (PR Link)

These changes already make onboarding contributors easier and improve testability.

What’s Next

I’m excited about these upcoming milestones:

Refining and aligning tests with the FastAPI structure.
Integrating with Fedora infrastructure for live data.
Strengthening the deployment pipeline for production.

Challenges

My biggest challenge and opportunity is simultaneously learning new backend technologies like FastAPI and OpenID Connect for authorization, along with techniques to improve developer onboarding. Though the learning curve is steep, my mentor’s continuous guidance on the Fedora infrastructure, career development and general advice makes it manageable.

Reflections

This internship has been an incredible learning experience. I’m gaining hands-on exposure to backend architecture, continuous integration practices, and open-source collaboration. More importantly, the chance to build something lasting for Fedora makes the work genuinely rewarding.

There’s a lot left to tackle, and I’m looking forward to pushing it further.

From Open Source User to Fedora Contributor

July 10, 2025 / Antony Nyagah / Comments Off

This is the story of how I became a contributor on the Fedora Release Schedule Planner application hosted on Codeberg.

I started my open-source journey when I got my first laptop. It was old and slow, but I needed it for school, so I started looking into how to fix this.

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Welcome Outreachy 2024 applicants!

March 5, 2024 / Justin Wheeler / Comments Off

On March 4th, 2024, the application phase kicked off for the Outreachy 2024 internship program. Fedora is proud to continue our participation in Outreachy again this year. We are offering three internships that will run from May to August 2024. This blog post is an orientation for both community members and new applicants to the Fedora community to understand Outreachy, what projects we are running this year, and some best practices for working with the Fedora community.

Read on for more details!

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Outreachy Summer’23: Call for Projects and Mentors!

February 2, 2023 / smeragoel / Comments Off

The Fedora Project is participating in the upcoming round of Outreachy. We need more project ideas and mentors! The last day to propose a project or to apply as a general mentor is February 24, 2023, at 4pm UTC.

Outreachy provides a unique opportunity for underrepresented groups to gain valuable experience in open-source and gain access to a supportive community of mentors and peers. By participating in this program, the Fedora community can help create a more diverse and inclusive tech community.

My Experience as a Fedora Intern

December 20, 2022 / isagordillo / 2 Comments

As my internship with Fedora comes to an end, I reflect on my experiences over the past five months. I began my internship in May, applying to a Community Architect position posted through Red Hat. I was unfamiliar with the Fedora community, but was eager to learn and contribute to the communities. Marie Nordin, the former Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator guided me the whole way. She taught me about the passion and enthusiasm the open source community respects within community involvement.

Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy December-March Cohort

September 10, 2021 / t0xic0der / Comments Off

Fedora will be participating in the upcoming round of Outreachy (December 2021-March 2022) and we are looking for more projects and mentors!

Being a community of diverse people from various backgrounds and different walks of life, the Fedora Project has been participating as a mentoring organization for Outreachy internships for years. The Outreachy program is instrumental in providing a rich experience in working with free and open-source software. Fedora is a proud participant.

If you have a project idea for the upcoming round of Outreachy, open a ticket in the mentored projects repository. Even if you don’t have a project idea, you can volunteer to be a mentor for a project. As a mentor, you will guide interns through the completion of the project. We are also looking for general mentors for the facilitation of proper communication of feedback and evaluation with the interns working on the selected projects.

Please submit your project ideas and mentorship availability ASAP. The deadline for projects to Outreachy is September ~~23rd~~ 29th. The Mentored Projects Coordinators will review your ideas and help you prep your project proposal to be submitted to Outreachy.

Mentoring can be a fulfilling pursuit. It is beneficial for you, the intern and applicants, the Fedora Project, and the overall open source ecosystem. Join us in fostering the growth of our community and the love of open source!

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Outreachy FHP week 7: Django, Docker, and fedora-messaging

July 30, 2019 / shraddhaag / Comments Off

This is part of a recurring series between May – August 2019 on the Community Blog about Fedora Happiness Packets. These posts are published as part of a series of prompts from the Outreachy program.

From Outreachy.org: The theme for this week is “Modifying Expectations”. Outreachy mentors and interns start the internship with a specific set of project goals. However, usually those goals need to be modified, and that’s perfectly fine! Delays to projects happen. Maybe your project turned out to be more complicated than you or your mentor anticipated. Maybe you needed to learn some concepts before you could tackle project tasks. Maybe the community documention wasn’t up-to-date or was wrong. These are all perfectly valid reasons for projects to be a bit behind schedule, as long as you’ve been working full-time on the project. In fact, free and open source contributors have to deal with these kinds of issues all the time. Projects often seem simple until you start working on them. Project timelines are ususally a very optimistic view of what could happen if everything goes exactly as planned. It often doesn’t, but people still make optimistic plans. Modifying your project timeline to set more realistic goals is a skill all contributors need to learn.

Your goal for this week’s blog post is to write a report about your progress on your project. Talk about what you accomplished so far. Talk about what goals too more time than expected. The blog post should also detail what your modified goals for the second half of the internship is.

FHP: Outreachy! Is it that hard to crack?

May 29, 2019 / alishapapun / Comments Off

Getting into one of the reputed internship programs might seem scary and unachievable especially when you don’t consider yourself an expert in that field, but trust me it’s not that hard to get into. How can I say this with so much certainty? Well, I got into Outreachy, one of the prestigious internships as a Fedora intern and through this article, I want to share my journey with you all.

GSOC 2019 – release-bot project

May 21, 2019 / rpitonak / Comments Off

On May 6, the selected students for Google summer of code 2019 were officially announced. We, as mentors of the release-bot project, would like to thank all applicants and provide insight into our decision process.

Google summer of code is popular for the past several years which means that competition is really high. For our project, release-bot, this was definitely the case. We had several very promising candidates providing early contributions. The code which was written during the application period resulted in the new release `0.7.0` of release bot, thank you to (in alphabetical order) @Aniket-Pradhan, @Elias999, @marusinm, @shresthagrawal, @Toaster192, and @Z0Marlin

Integrating Fedora Messaging in Fedora Happiness Packets

April 5, 2019 / shraddhaag / Comments Off

The Federated Message Bus, or Fedmsg, is used within the Fedora Infrastructure to easily connect services using ZeroMQ publishers and subscribers. This library is now deprecated in favour of Fedora Messaging.

Fedora Messaging provides a framework for declaring message schemas and a set of APIs to publish and consume messages to and from AMQP brokers.

In the project Fedora Happiness Packets, Fedmsg was set up to send messages to the Bus so that Fedora Badges could be awarded to the sender when they send a Happiness Packet, i.e an email worth of appreciation! My piece in this jigsaw was to migrate from Fedmsg to Fedora Messaging in this containerized project.