Across the project, groups focused heavily on preparing for the upcoming Fedora 44 release, with the Release Engineering and Quality teams managing the mass rebuild while other SIGs worked to fix package build failures and submit change proposals. Another major cross-team effort was the ongoing migration of infrastructure from Pagure to the new Forgejo instance, impacting ticket trackers and code repositories for the Infrastructure, EPEL, Docs, and Quality teams. Many groups also dedicated time to planning for upcoming events, including FOSDEM, CentOS Connect, SCaLE, and the Fedora Council Strategy Summit, which influenced meeting schedules and work priorities.
AI & ML SIG
The group discussed the state of Ollama packaging, noting that bundled dependencies have simplified updates and that aarch64 support is now enabled. A key topic was preparing for Fedora 44, addressing build failures in onnx, onnxruntime, and miopen. A proposal for Fedora 45 was discussed to allow multiple major versions of ROCm to be installed simultaneously to ease transitions for dependent packages. They also addressed broken packages in EPEL 10 after a ROCm rebase and decided that future updates breaking dependencies will not be pushed to stable, in adherence to EPEL policy.
CentOS Hyperscale SIG
Work has begun on updating the Hyperscale kernel to version 6.18. The group discussed the slow kernel build times, particularly for aarch64, and noted that an upstream ARM patch could significantly speed this up by reducing the number of kernel variants needed. A key decision was made to change the meeting schedule to a bi-weekly cadence, alternating between US and EU/APAC-friendly times to better accommodate all members. The next meeting was canceled in favor of an in-person meetup at CentOS Connect / FOSDEM.
Cloud SIG
The meeting served as a reset to establish goals for the year. A primary decision was to prioritize the replacement of the existing signing infrastructure, which is a blocker for other initiatives like signing repository metadata. siguldry was discussed as a potential replacement. The group also has a long-term interest in supporting Unified Kernel Images (UKIs) but expressed "zero confidence" in their current reliability, agreeing to tackle this only after the signing service is addressed. Plans were also formulated for creating and delivering workshops at upcoming conferences.
CoreOS
The team reviewed the Fedora 44 release schedule and the changes that will affect Fedora CoreOS. They also discussed a proposal from the Provisioning Team related to Ignition, deciding to schedule a dedicated video meeting to discuss it further. An action item was taken to investigate a change related to kmscon.
Council
The Council focused on logistics and agenda planning for the upcoming 2026 Strategy Summit in Tirana, Albania, emphasizing that remote participation will be a priority. They revisited the long-standing ticket on retiring mailing lists, which led to a broader discussion on how to measure contributor engagement—a topic slated for the summit. A significant discussion took place regarding guidance on SIG membership being used solely for voting in FESCo elections, with Council members tasked to provide feedback on potential rule changes and the culture of contribution.
Design Team
The team held two meetings, focusing on design requests. They reviewed and provided feedback on a poster for the Fedora Council Strategy Summit, requesting minor changes to the logo and gradient. They also worked on a poster/flyer about getting involved in Fedora, discussing layout, spacing, and content issues. A decision was made to set a new deadline for the flyer for mid-February, aiming to have it printed for SCaLE and FOSSASIA. The team also discussed the need for a list of available swag for FOSDEM to create a survey.
Docs SIG
This meeting was focused on planning work for 2026 and identifying leads for major initiatives. The group is seeking volunteers to lead efforts in three key areas: improving contributor guidance and tooling, conducting a comprehensive analysis and update of existing documents like Quick Docs, and finalizing the team's collaboration workflow. A key action item is to migrate the Fedora Docs website from Pagure to Forgejo before FOSDEM.
EPEL
The group discussed formalizing a policy to reserve the -epel package name suffix for packages shipping subpackages missing from RHEL, with other uses requiring an exception. They confirmed that the EPEL issue tracker migration from Pagure to Forgejo will happen in early February, after FOSDEM. A future packaging concern was raised about Django 4.2 in EPEL 9, which reaches its end-of-life in April 2026 and will require an incompatible update. The meeting scheduled for January 28th was canceled due to FOSDEM.
FESCO
After welcoming new members, FESCO made a decision to change its weekly meeting time to Tuesday at 18:00 GMT to better accommodate its members. A significant portion of the meeting was spent discussing various tickets and proposals, including updating packaging guidelines, creating policies to encourage first-time candidates in FESCo elections, and addressing ignored CVE bugs. Decisions on several Fedora 44 Change Proposals, such as restricting ptrace, were deferred to the next meeting for further discussion. An action was also taken to file a Koji RFE for setting resource limits on builds.
Image Mode Initiative
The group held a brief check-in meeting. They noted the upcoming deadline for Fedora 44 change proposals and referenced the ongoing community discussion about a new name for the bootc project.
Infrastructure
Across six daily standups, the team's primary focus was the upcoming migration of their ticket tracker from Pagure to Forgejo, scheduled for the following week. They reviewed the test migration and planned to update their triage process to a sprint-based model afterward. The team also officially transitioned from Nagios to Zabbix for primary monitoring. Other discussions included triaging daily tickets, investigating unstable PPC builders, resolving SSH login issues on test instances, and managing disk space on log servers.
Internationalization
The team reviewed several ongoing issues. They are awaiting feedback from native Arabic speakers on making Cascadia the default monospace font. They tracked two i18n-related changes submitted for Fedora 44 (related to IBus) and reminded bug owners to address the backlog of 55 bugs targeted for the Fedora 42 release. The ongoing Fedora 44 mass rebuild was also mentioned, with fewer failures than anticipated.
Quality
The team reported that the Fedora 44 mass rebuild is complete but not yet tagged, and noted that over 150 openQA tests are failing due to a bug with XFS on /boot. A major topic was the migration to Forgejo; nearly all QA repositories have been moved, and the team has successfully implemented CI using Forgejo Actions. They also planned upcoming test events, including a GNOME 50 Test Day in February and a forthcoming request for a Fedora KDE test week.
Releng (Release Engineering)
In two meetings, the team managed the Fedora 44 mass rebuild, which was nearly complete. They decided to cancel the few remaining stuck builds. A significant issue arose when it was discovered that many packages from the rebuild were unsigned due to a configuration deployment delay; an action was taken to get these signed. The team also discussed improving their workflow by adopting a better backlog refinement process with story points. A proposal will be made to FESCo to shift the F44 mass branching date by one week to accommodate team travel for FOSDEM.
Server SIG
The meeting was held but adjourned almost immediately. Due to very low attendance (only two members present), there was no quorum to conduct official business. The poor attendance was attributed to the lack of a pre-published agenda. All discussions were moved to the group's Matrix room until the next scheduled meeting.
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