Community Update - Week 05 2026

News & Announcements Community Blog
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Originally published at: Community Update - Week 05 2026 – Fedora Community Blog

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: 26 – 30 January 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 tickets from pagure.io to forge.fedoraproject.org
  • Dealing with spam on various mailing lists
  • Dealing with hw failures on some machines
  • Fixed IPA backups
  • Fixed retirement script missing some packages
  • Another wave of AI scrapers
  • Quite a few new Zabbix checks for things (ipa backups, apache-status)

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

  • Fedora Mass Rebuild resulted in merging approx 22K rpms into the F44 Tag

RISC-V

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

  • Relative good news: Mark Weilaard managed to get a fix for the ‘debugedit’ bug that was blocking Fedora. We now have a build that has unblocked a few packages. The fix has some rough edges. We’re working on it, but a big blocker is out of the way now.
  • We now have Fedora Copr RISC-V chroots — these are QEMU-emulated running on x86. Still, this should give a bit more breathing room for building kernel RPMs. (Credit: Miroslav Suchý saw my status report a couple of months ago about builder shortage. He followed up with us to make this happen with his team.)
  • Fabian Arrotin racked a few RISC-V machines for CBS. We (Andrea Bolognani and Fu Wei) are working on buildroot population

AI

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

  • awilliam used Cursor to summarize several months of upstream changelogs while updating openQA packages (still one of the best use cases so far)

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.

  • Forgejo migration continuation and cleanup – we’re now nearly 100% done
  • All generally unhappy about the CSB policy and communication
  • Prepared some upcoming Test Days: KDE Plasma 6.6, Grub OOM 2: Electric Boogaloo
  • Dealt with a couple of issues caused by the mass rebuild merge, but it was much smoother this time
  • Psklenar signed up for the Code Coverage working group thing
  • Set up sprint planning in Forgejo
  • Added a Server build/install test to openQA to avoid reoccurrences of Server profile-specific issues like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429501
  • Did some testing on new laptop HW provided by Lenovo

Forgejo

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

  • More repo migrations, creating new Orgs and Teams, creating Org requested runners, solving reported issues
  • Staging instance of distgit deployed
  • Performance testing of the forge instances, storage increase, maintenance

UX

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

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

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