Farewell (for now), my brave hobbits

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Hi all,

Today is my last day around the Fedora Project for a while. I will be back though! You can’t get rid of me that easily :wink: I will be on maternity leave from Monday, 27 October 2025 and will return to middle earth on Monday, 18 May 2026.

In my absence, I have recruited a little fellowship to cover tasks of the FOA role. The FOA page[1] on Fedora Docs has been updated with details on who will be covering what, and should be rebuilt shortly to reflect the changes.
There is also an F47 and F48 release schedules[2][3] published as well for all of you very early birds to file change proposals against :slight_smile:

A few important notes:

  1. Changes Processing
    Allison King is your F44 (and parts of F45) Change Wrangler. Allison was introduced a few months ago to you all[4], and for full transparency and as a reminder, we have been using Claude CLI for automating the process. It is a local service and not part of Fedora infra. Changes that Claude processes are always checked by Allison and I for correctness when they are announced, submitted for FESCo vote and processed. Allison will continue to use Claude to assist in the processing for F44 Changes, as she and I have been doing for the last few weeks.

  2. Schedule Management
    Jef, our FPL, is taking on the schedule management part of the job in a limited capacity. This means that the only schedule changes will be for Fedora Linux 44. These changes will be restricted to release date changes if target dates are missed, or critical schedule amendments that FESCo requires. Please file all schedule change requests in the schedule repo[5].

  1. Fedora Operations Architect :: Fedora Docs ↩︎

  2. Fedora Linux 47 Schedule: Key ↩︎

  3. Fedora Linux 48 Schedule: Key ↩︎

  4. Introducing Allison King, F44 Change Wrangler ↩︎

  5. https://pagure.io/fedora-pgm/schedule ↩︎

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Good luck with the big task being a mom :slight_smile:

and thanks for the help on getting 43 out the door next week and the information about who to talk to for the next releases for 2026, and catch up on your sleep you might need it later :wink:

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Wishing you Good Health for you and your baby… :woman_feeding_baby:

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Best of luck Aoife! :four_leaf_clover:

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Best of luck!

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Best of luck! <3

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Best wishes to your husband, yourself and the baby coming!

Undoubtedly a new Fedora kid!

Ondřej

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Congratulations - hope all goes well.

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Congratulations on your pregnancy! Thank you for all the work you’ve done so far. We look forward to seeing you soon! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Ummm, I don’t recall you submitting a Change Proposal for the baby. :grinning_face:

Seriously though, congratulations and we will try to keep things under control while you are disconnected!

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Farewell (for now), my brave hobbits … Monday, 18 May 2026

“Look to my coming at first light on the 5th day month. At dawn, look to the East.”
– Gandalf the White Aoife The Sleepless

Best of luck Aoife :slight_smile:

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A healthy community needs a supply of new people, so you may be leaving near-term contributions while contributing to the long-term future the open-source community. Hoping all goes well!

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Happy to read this :wink:

All the best, and see you when you are back!

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Congratulations and all the best!!

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Congratulations and best of luck, @amoloney! :four_leaf_clover:

You are sure as hell gonna rock there too! :heart:

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Congratulations :slight_smile:

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Congratulations and the very best of luck!

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All the best for the future, and one of the longest jobs in life.

Look forward to your return.

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Congratulations @amoloney. You have my axe and my bow and my pull request.

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All the best wishes! Thanks for all the hard work you do that keeps the ship moving forward. Take care!