Originally published at: EPEL Steering Committee Election: Interview with Davide Cavalca (dcavalca) – Fedora Community Blog
This is a part of the EPEL Steering Committee Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Tuesday, 20th May and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Monday, June 2 2025.
Interview with Davide Cavalca
- Name: Davide Cavalca
- FAS ID: dcavalca
Questions
What is your background in EPEL? What have you worked on and what are you doing now?
I’ve been an EPEL packager for several years now, and I’m currently serving on the Steering Committee; I’m also a member of the (now deprecated) EPEL Packaging SIG. Outside of EPEL, I serve on the CentOS Board, co-chair the CentOS Hyperscale SIG and I’m a member of several other Fedora and CentOS SIGs.
The packages I maintain in EPEL are usually either packages I directly use myself, things I need for my day job (I work on the Linux team at Meta), or missing dependencies needed to facilitate other work. I also maintain a handful of fill-in -epel packages that add back missing subpackages that were unshipped in CentOS Stream. Most recently, I’ve brought back the mkdocs stack in Fedora (after forming a SIG around it) and branch it for EPEL, so we could use it for the new CentOS documentation site. Among other things, I’m currently working on branching and building supporting packages for Apple Silicon Macs for EPEL, as part of a wider effort to enable CentOS Stream and its derivatives for the platform.
Why are you running for EPEL Steering Committee member?
I care about EPEL, and I run CentOS Stream in production with EPEL repos both at home and at work. If elected, I plan to continue my involvement in the Steering Commitee in helping shape the direction of the project going forward.