Community Update - Week 12 2026

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Originally published at: Community Update - Week 12 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: 16 – 20 March 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 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 44 Final Freeze will begin on March 31st.
  • Otherwise business as usual.

RISC-V

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

  • Executive summary: Continued chipping away at closing the gap between primary and RISC-V Koji. Resumed stalled work to debug LLVM test-suite failures on Fedora; wrote a draft patch for LLVM to deal with some RISC-V specific failures. Real F44 rebuild work starts this week — finally, the F43 Koji task queue is empty (making way for F44 mass-rebuild). Discussed a rough plan for the rebuild in Fedora RISC-V SIG meeting. We plan to replace board-specific kernels for F44 and use the omni kernel. RISC-V EU Summit Program Committee work.
  • F43 images can be obtained from here
  • RISC-V omni kernels (formerly “unified”) are now available here
  • Shared Fedora notes for rebuilding OpenJDK to the fine folks doing the CentOS part.

AI

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

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

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

  • Pagure.io sunset messages now live on website and CLI on git push.
  • Demo of Pagure static pages backup at ryanlerch.fedorapeople.org. Net steps to get a full demo of this so we can share with people.
  • New org requests ramping up as more Fedora repos get moved to forge.
  • Private Issues: Make issue query helpers understand public and private issues

EPEL

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

  • Held RPM Packaging Workshop at SCALE
  • Helped staff Fedora+CentOS booth at SCALE, with lots of EPEL discussion with conference attendees

UX

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

  • Greetings from Fedora postcard ticket
  • Initial Flock branding sketches posted ticket
  • New repo on Design team Forgejo to store Gemini meeting notes so they’re more accessible.

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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