Originally published at: Community Update - Week 8 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 Feb – 20 Feb 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
- [GSoC Project Idea 2026] Revamp Fedora Badges project with modern fullstack architecture and dedicated MCP support [Ticket] [Followup]
- [Infra] Added package and installed size to package metadata [Review] [Lint]
- [Infra] Improve vagrant setup instructions and add container-based setup [Followup A] [Followup B]
- Migration of pagure.io repositories to forge.fedoraproject.org continues (9 more repositories migrated)
- Resolved authentication issues with wordpress instances (thanks to misc)
- Fixed database connection issues on Dist-Git
- Dep updates and CI fixes for our apps in Github
- Worked on the port of bugzilla2fedmsg to Kafka (since the UMB deprecation), deployed it to staging, asked RHIT for firewall ports.
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
- lack of ipv6 on some sponsored servers
- New Build Target and Tags for the Kmods SIG (kernel-6.18)
- Extend maximum build time for CS10 Risc-v
- Spam on the automotive-sig mailing list
- Move Hyperscale SIG docs source from pagure to gitlab
- Request: Add new SSH key for OKD / SCOS bootimage sync to cloud.centos.org
- mirror request
- Setup BuildRoot for CS10 risc-v
- allow rsync for 2 fedoraproject mirrors
- Need more disk space on Gitlab Runners
- Ensuring that gen2 images are also deleted/cleaned up from koji (through koji-gc)
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 Beta Freeze is now in effect.
RISC-V
This is the summary of the work done regarding the RISC-V architecture in Fedora.
- (Not a lot to report this week, besides the routine on-going work.)
- Started a discussion with the RISC-V team about RHEL builders for Konflux. (This is not about general Konflux support, that’s out of scope)
- Continued to investigate Fedora 44 build failures and all that entails — working with relevant upstream maintainers to get changes reviewed, merged, etc.
- Sorted out a build-timeout issue with Copr upstream. (Jason Montleon is currently used to build some board-specific kernels.)
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.
- TestDays App was updated in production.
- Anubis no longer breaks actions in Forge thanks to our debugging (and Infra fixing it, of course).
- Blockerbugs meetings and the whole blocker review process has started since this week.
- Ran test days: Grub OOM fix, GNOME 50
Forgejo
This team is working on introduction of https://forge.fedoraproject.org to Fedora
and migration of repositories from pagure.io.
- Spike of zabbix installation for ansible-role-forgejo-runner researched
- Forge image build and versioning fully automated
- Runners updated to use image version 12
- More migrations from pagure and troubleshooting
- Private Issues: Fixed tests, tied up loose ends and consolidated feature branch.
- Packit team got access to staging distgit deployment
- Create new organisation and namespace on Fedora Forge for Fedora Join [Followup] [Namespace]
UX
This team is working on improving User experience. Providing artwork, user experience,
usability, and general design services to the Fedora project
- CLE logo complete!
- F45 wallpaper mindmap session took place. Mindmap created can be found here.
- Continuing Forgejo migration.
If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #admin:fedoraproject.org channel on matrix.