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05 Aug 2025 9:00pm GMT

One important rule in running a project that people depend on is: don't start something you're not willing to keep doing indefinitely. Another important rule is: it's okay to stop doing things. These two rules are seemingly at odds with each other, but together they form a key principle: reliably do what makes sense to do.

The reason you shouldn't start doing something that you're not willing (or able) to continue doing is that people will start to rely on it. If you start doing things and then stop them after a time or two, you'll lose credibility. This harms your project's reputation over the long run, and it can be hard to regain that lost trust. Your processes and practices must be sustainable.

On the other hand, there is no virtue in continuing to do things that aren't valuable. When conditions change - because of contributor availability, technology evolution, etc - what used to be a good use of time may not be any longer. Contributor time is the most valuable resource a project has, so if it's not a good use of time, stop doing it.

Recent departures from the Red Hat team that does Fedora QA have prompted the team to reevaluate some of the work they do. Fedora is a project with a long and mature history, so it has built up a lot of cruft over the decades. Some of that is in the form of the release criteria. (Chapter 11 of Program Management for Open Source Projects goes into depth on how to manage your project's release criteria.) Booting from optical media (CD or DVD) used to be a critical function of the installer, so it made sense to block the release if that didn't work. These days, a lot of hardware doesn't include an optical drive; the hardware that does almost always supports booting from USB or network (e.g. PXE), so optical boot may not be worth blocking for. This reduces the testing load.

When you think it's time to stop doing something that you had been doing, the first step is understanding what you want to stop doing. Do the conditions that lead you to start still exist? Do you have the time and resources you need to continue? Are there other things that are more valuable that you can do instead? With your answers to those questions, you can work out a final answer with the rest of the community. If you decide to stop doing something, make sure it's communicated to the people who need to know. If it involves something no longer working, try to give as long of an off-ramp as you can reasonably provide.

This post's featured photo by Dim Hou on Unsplash.

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30 Jul 2025 12:00pm GMT

Important and well written article by Sydney Butler on How-To Geek: PDFs Must Die

❝PDFs were created as a way to give a document an absolute, invariable design suitable for PRINT. It was never meant to be how we consumed documents on a screen.❞

And I must add:

We the data professionals, we hate PDFs. They might look good and structured for your human eyes, but the data inside them is a mess, unstructured and not suitable to be processed by computer programs.

Although we still didn't reached an agreement for ubiquitous formats, here are some better options:

• ePub (which is basically packaged HTML + CSS + images) for long text such as articles, T&Cs or contracts. ePub is usually associated with books but I hope it can be popularized for other used, given its versatility.
• YAML, JSON, XML including digital signatures as JWS, for structured data such as government issued documents.
• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, which is an XML application) for high quality graphics, including paged and interactive content, such as exported presentation slides.
• MPEG-4 for interactive sequence of images, including dynamic animations and SVG with JavaScript, for content such as slide shows. Although MPEG-4 is usually associated with video, it can do much more than that. Player support is extremely weak for these other possibilities though.
• SQLite for pure tabular and relational data. The SQLite engine is now ubiquitous, present in every browser and on every platform you can think of.

Also on my LinkedIn.

30 Jul 2025 11:38am GMT

05th June 2025 was the first day of the Flock To Fedora 2025 conference proceedings, and it began for me with waking up as early as 0430am Central European Summer Time. While I had the alarm set for a couple of hours later, I struggled with sleeping on the soft bed and instead decided to begin my daily schedule. I had planned with Michal Konecny to head over to the event venue together, but it would not be for another four hours, so I had plenty of time to have a chat with my family in India. I also connected with the likes of Ankur Sinha, who was arriving at the Vienna House Andel Prague early that day, as I was working with him for the Fedora Join SIG talk. At around 0630am Central European Summer Time, I headed downstairs to meet up with folks like Alexander Bokovoy, Frantisek Lachman, Lenka Segura, and Lukas Brabec in the breakfast area.

I decided to share some snacks that I brought from India with Tomas Hrcka before heading downstairs for the breakfast. I had ordered a cab for Yashwanth Rathakrishnan, and he had arrived at Ibis Praha Mala Strana by around 0800am Central European Summer Time. With a bunch of us finishing up our breakfasts, we decided to head off for the event venue. On reaching there, I realized that even though I had around four talks selected for the event, I had forgotten to register for it as an attendee! I assumed it would be a sane default for a speaker to be automatically registered as an attendee, but my assumption was clearly misplaced. I left the queue and spent some time registering for the event on the Eventbrite platform before rejoining to claim the amazing Flock To Fedora 2025 tee, event badge and Fedora Linux 42 "Don't Panic" towel from the event reception.

The reception desk was staffed by the likes of Greg Sutcliffe and Luis Bazan, who made themselves available for the first slot of the event, thus taking on the majority wave of the enthusiastic attendees. After catching up with those at the reception, I moved to the hallway track, where I met up with Michael Scherer and David Cantrell. I was super ecstatic to meet Ankur Sinha, with whom I was finally meeting in person after such a long time, as he had onboarded me to the beautiful Fedora Project community about six years ago. We headed into the plenary hall to attend the Opening Remarks and the Fedora Project Leader Exchange sessions after some time. Matthew Miller went into detail about how things had changed over the years with him at the helm of the Fedora Project community, before passing on the serving responsibilities to the newly recruited Jef Spaleta.

A magical experience like this is not something you get to see every day, as the talk was much more significant than just being a presentation. The responsibilities of the Fedora Project Leader were being passed on to another pair of hands, and we had interesting times ahead of us. Jef also shared his experiences with his previous employments that brought him here and what his vision looked like for the Fedora Project community. Following this session, we had an Ask Me Anything session with the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. After the elected members introduced themselves to the attendees, I took the opportunity to ask a couple of questions to the FESCo ensemble: one about the role of artificial intelligence technologies in the future of the Fedora Project, and the other about the extent of FESCo's involvement in evaluating and supporting community initiatives.

The event was followed by a refreshment break, and the plenary hall was soon to be divided into three parts: Opal, Topaz, and Quartz, for three parallel tracks of sessions. I avoided the bakery items served there, as I had limited myself to only the greens for roughage and fluids for circulation. I headed back into the plenary hall for the next couple of talks related to the Forgejo Fedora initiative and Bazzite Fedora downstream, starting at 1130am Central European Summer Time. With some interesting findings from the planned features of Forgejo and the gaming impact made by Bazzite, it was soon time for the lunch break, where we assembled for the Mentor Mentee Lunch and Learn session. I helped Jona Azizaj assemble the participants for the event, heading off to join my assigned group titled "Fedora Infrastructure - Software Development" to share my lunch chat with.

Our group consisted of four people, with Aurelien Bompard acting as the group mentor, while Smera Goel, Jona, and I acted as group mentees for the interaction. While my meal mostly consisted of some bland celery salad, seasoned Tuna cuts, and boiled Chicken meat, the conversations we shared were absolutely flavorful. Once we were done with the meal, I caught up with Ankur again, who was occupied finishing off some of his work, and with Aurelien and Michael, who were discussing just how easy (read, difficult) it would be for members to be able to rename their Fedora Project Account System usernames. At around 0230pm Central European Summer Time, I also met with Luis and Alexandra Fedorova, whom I congratulated for being among the winners of the Fedora Mindshare and Fedora Council elections, respectively, in the Fedora Linux 42 electoral term.

I briefly returned to the dining area to share conversations with the likes of Julia Bley, Nikita Tripathi, and Sumantro Mukherjee before leaving to find Greg and obtain a custom 3D-printed Fedora Project logo keychain from him. I also went ahead and shared some snacks and spices that I was carrying in my backpack with him in the hallway track. It was soon 0345 pm Central European Summer Time, which meant it was the time for yet another round of refreshments to be served (and avoided, on my part). After a brief conversation with Ant Carrol and Ankur on onboarding, we headed into the Topaz hall to deliver the talk on the Fedora Join SIG at around 0400pm Central European Summer Time. While the talk was received well, I did realize that I had over-optimized for the time and ended up glossing over some details that could have been helpful in providing context.

Ankur had been a stellar orator, as usual, and he ended the second half of our presentation, consisting of the call to action for the community members, with pure elegance. As our talk ended, the Topaz hall was repurposed for yet another Ask Me Anything session by the Community Linux Engineering management. I wanted to stay back for the session, but I also wanted to attend Greg's talk on community building in the Quartz hall at the same time. I ended up choosing the latter and swiftly found myself a place to sit at around 0430pm Central European Summer Time. He remarked in a chat we shared after his talk that the version of this presentation he delivered at DevConf.CZ previously was better than this one - which made absolutely no sense to me, as he was absolutely phenomenal here as well - so much so that it made me want to be possibly as amazing a speaker as him.

I decided to head back to the hotel with Sumantro and wondered whether I would want to make it to the International Candy Swap event, which was going to take place in an arcade store with limited seating. That was, of course, going to happen after the planned Community Linux Engineering team dinner at 0600pm Central European Summer Time, lasting for a couple of hours. On our way out, I ran into Aoife Moloney, who checked with me about how my talk went - a gesture I really appreciated, as I was still feeling down with how my Fedora Join SIG talk could have been better. After the supportive conversation with her, I decided to use the learnings from that day to enhance the upcoming talks the next day. Sumantro briefly introduced me to Debarshi Ray, after which Fabian Arrotin, Yashwanth, Sumantro, and I were on our way back to the hotel to quickly get freshened up.

While I had booked a taxi using the Bolt service for Yashwanth's return, I had to cancel it as he was also invited to the Community Linux Engineering team dinner at the last moment. As I headed downstairs with Michal to the reception area, I was surprised by Ant in traditional Indian dress, i.e., Kurta, along with Samyak Jain, which was a good sight to see. We marched towards a nearby restaurant for some quick dinner bites at around 0615pm Central European Summer Time, and the food was swiftly served. Yashwanth, Matthew, and I had to wait for some time to get our hands on some bird meat while being seated near the likes of Tomas, Lukas, Kamil Paral, and Lukas Ruzicka. I sipped on some Red Bull that I had ordered as the beverage, as I was barely able to keep my eyes open after having barely five hours of sleep the previous night while waiting for food.

As Michal was about to leave for the International Candy Swap after getting some homemade bakery items from the hotel, I decided to depart as well since I was satisfied. I also decided not to attend the following event, as I had forgotten about it with all the things I was occupied with, and it would not have looked good if I were to turn up there without something to offer. Additionally, I was not quite sure if I would have found a place there, as the venue for the event had a maximum capacity of only fifty people, and I wanted to give this opportunity to someone else who was probably attending it for the first time. After waiting for Yashwanth and Sumantro for five minutes or so, Michal and I were started on our way back to the hotel, where we met up with Sherif Nagy. Sumantro and I briefly met at the hotel before heading over to TESCO to make some needed purchases.

We (coincidentally and hilariously) happened to run into Ant a couple of times while visiting the Nový Smíchov Shopping Centre, as we were waiting to hear back from Yashwanth on his safe departure from the dining place. At TESCO, I purchased a pair of boots for my brother, Soumadeep Dhar, who was getting married that year, and a clamcase carrier for the remaining luggage, as with all the goods I received from Tomas, the space would clearly not have been enough. On my return to the hotel reception, I requested for my room to be cleaned due to hygiene issues, but as cleaners were not available, I was moved from #225 to #517. After a quick inspection of the changed room, I moved my things over at around 0930pm Central European Summer Time. I got myself freshened up and decided to call it a day a bit early to catch up on some well-deserved respite.

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29 Jul 2025 11:36am GMT

The Anaconda team have done some great changes over the last few Fedora Linux releasese. For Fedora Linux 43, they would like your help testing their latest changes - switching Anaconda installer to DNF5 and removing DNF modularity support from Anaconda.

With the help of the Fedora QA team, a number of test matrices have been created to help folks who can take part test the new features and provide their results.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for folks to test the following and file your results in the Test Days app:

• Run some basic tests
• Check that you can install repositories
• Check what package sets are successful on install
• Any other exploratory testing you would like to do!

More details on what the new features for Anaconda brings to Fedora and users can be found on the Anaconnda change pages, Switch Anaconda installer to DNF5 and Remove DNF modularity support from Anaconda.

How does a test week work?

A test week is an event where anyone can help ensure changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you've never contributed before, this is a perfect way to get started.

To contribute, you only need to be able to do the following things:

• Download test materials, which include some large files
• Read and follow directions step by step

The wiki page for the Anaconda Installer has a lot of good information on what and how to test. After you've done some testing, you can log your results in the test day web application. If you're available on or around the days of the event, please do some testing and report your results.

28 Jul 2025 10:20pm GMT

Another week, another recap. :)

26 Jul 2025 6:47pm GMT

With version 7.4 Redis Labs choose to switch to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 licenses, so leaving the OpenSource World.

Most linux distributions choose to drop it from their repositories. Various forks exist and Valkey seems a serious one and was chosen as a replacement.

So starting with Fedora 41 or Entreprise Linux 10 (CentOS, RHEL, AlmaLinux, RockyLinux...) redis is no more available, but valkey is.

With version 8.0 Redis Labs choose to switch to AGPLv3 license, and so is back as an OpenSource project.

RPMs of Redis version 8.0.3 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 40 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).

1. Installation

Packages are available in the redis:remi-8.0 module stream.

1.1. Using dnf4 on Enterprise Linux

# dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-<ver>.rpm
# dnf module switch-to redis:remi-8.0/common

1.2. Using dnf5 on Fedora

# dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-<ver>.rpm
# dnf module enable redis:remi-8.0
# dnf install redis --allowerasing

You may have to remove the valkey-compat-redis compatibilty package.

2. Modules

Some optional modules are also available:

• RedisBloom as redis-bloom
• RedisJSON as redis-json
• RedisTimeSeries as redis-timeseries

These packages are weak dependencies of Redis, so they are installed by default (if install_weak_deps is not disabled in the dnf configuration).

The modules are automatically loaded after installation and service (re)start.

The modules are not available for Enterprise Linux 8.

3. Future

Valkey also provides a similar set of modules, requiring some packaging changes already proposed for Fedora official repository.

Redis may be proposed for unretirement and be back in the Fedora official repository, by me if I find enough motivation and energy, or by someone else.

I may also try to solve packaging issues for other modules (e.g. RediSearch). For now, module packages are very far from Packaging Guidelines, so obviously not ready for a review.

4. Statistics

redis

redis-bloom

redis-json

redis-timeseries

25 Jul 2025 1:12pm GMT

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 21st - 25th July 2025

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

The purpose of this team is to take care of day to day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.
It's responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.).
List of planned/in-progress issues

Fedora Infra

• In progress:
  • reconfigure power10 machines
  • [FMTS] TLS certificate for centos-koji service is about to expire in 30 days
  • [FMTS] TLS certificate for git-hooks service is about to expire in 30 days
  • [FMTS] TLS certificate for batcave service is about to expire in 30 days
  • [FMTS] TLS certificate for gitlab-centos service is about to expire in 30 days
  • [FMTS] TLS certificate for fmc service is about to expire in 30 days
  • [RFE] expose metrics from rabbitmq queues for centos infra consumption (or others)
  • Forgejo: Owner access to @jflory7 for @CommOps
  • Move copr_hypervisor group from iptables to nftables
  • tmpwatch removed from ansible
  • Link in staging distgit instance leads to prod auth
  • re-add datagrepper nagios checks (and add to zabbix?)
  • Fix logrotate on kojipkgs01/02
  • Broken link for STG IPA CA certificate, needed for staging CentOS Koji cert
  • [CommOps] Open Data Hub on Communishift
  • retire easyfix
  • Deploy Element Server Suite operator in staging
  • Pagure returns error 500 trying to open a PR on https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-setuptools-gettext
  • maubot-meetings bot multi line paste is cut
  • Move OpenShift apps from deploymentconfig to deployment
  • Support allocation dedicated hosts for Testing Farm
  • EPEL minor version archive repos in MirrorManager
  • Add fedora-l10n pagure group as an admin to the fedora-l10n-docs namespace projects
  • vmhost-x86-copr01.rdu-cc.fedoraproject.org DOWN
  • Add yselkowitz to list to notify when ELN builds fail
  • Cleaning script for communishift
  • Move from iptables to firewalld
  • Port apps to OIDC
  • Help me move my discourse bots to production?
  • Migration of registry.fedoraproject.org to quay.io
• Done:
  • A request for a compatibility package for Intel's intel-compute-runtime for the older hardware.
  • Login to seccdn.libravatar.org with Fedora Account fails: "Invalid redirect_uri"
  • Can't activate account in IPA
  • Queue for cloud-image-upload missing in staging
  • SPAM on fedora-devel
  • Packager Dashboard out of sync
  • src.fp.o not sending emails for opened / closed / commented-on PRs?
  • mailman unsubscribing people multiple times
  • Request creation of copr-only group airsim
  • Multiple continuing bounces on server mailing list.
  • Please register my testing instance of Fedora Infrastructure apps to OIDC
  • centos-resilientstorage-9-stream sha512 mismatch
  • s390x images not found in mirrors.hostiserver.com/fedora
  • Random hangs when pushing to pkgs.fedoraproject.org
  • archive.linux.duke.edu 's fedora-enchilada module seems incorrect (wrong top level, missing development)
  • 2025 datacenter move (IAD2->RDU3)
  • The process to update the OpenH264 repos is broken
  • httpd 2.4.61 causing issue in fedora infrastructure
  • Need to delete user account in FAS that has been already deleted in Discourse (discussion.fedoraproject.org) due to violations (spam, AI, etc.)
  • Install AWX for testing proof of concept

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• In progress:
  • Release Improvements
• Done:
  • Add new mirror: plug-mirror.rcac.purdue.edu
  • [Promo SIG] Migrate some repos from git.centos.org to gitlab
  • Migrate centos-infra-docs to gitlab
  • Migrate CentOS Board tracker to gitlab
  • WSL image builds fail with "Unsupported file type"
  • [SN#1658] Wrapper to check / create projects on GitLab using the REST API
  • [SN#1715] Migrate CentOS infra tracket to gitlab (from pagure.io)
  • [SN#1717] New tags needed for Sama v4.22 and v4.21 in Storage SIG for CentOS Stream 10

Release Engineering

• In progress:
  • pybind11 PR cannot be merged
  • Fedora 43 Mass Rebuild Tracker
  • Improve the mass-tag script so it notify if something is broken and verify permissions
  • Please unblock python-daiquiri
  • When processing stalled EPEL package requests, make the requester EPEL bugzilla override
  • golang-helm-3 not retired properly
  • Packages containg a "+" do not have a f42 branch
  • Transfer/orphan packages owned by rdieter
  • `-no-git-branch` option to fedpkg request-branch and creating the branch manually doesn't work as expected
  • Turn EPEL minor branching scripts into playbooks
  • Mass retirement of packages with uninitialized rawhide branch
  • 300+ F42FTBFS bugzillas block the F41FTBFS tracker
  • Packages that have not been rebuilt in a while or ever
  • Send compose reports to a to-be-created separate ML
  • Could we have fedoraproject-updates-archive.fedoraproject.org for Rawhide?
  • Investigate and untag packages that failed gating but were merged in via mass rebuild
  • Update pungi filters
  • Implement checks on package retirements
  • Untag containers-common-0.57.1-6.fc40
  • Provide stable names for images
  • Packages that fail to build SRPM are not reported during the mass rebuild bugzillas
  • When orphaning packages, keep the original owner as co-maintainer
  • Create an ansible playbook to do the mass-branching
  • RFE: Integration of Anitya to Packager Workflow
  • Fix tokens for ftbfs_weekly_reminder. script
  • Update bootloader components assignee to "Bootloader Engineering Team"for Improved collaboration
• Done:
  • Stalled EPEL package: daemonize
  • FEX image build fails in wine-core %postinstall
  • Package removal due to licensing
  • Create detached signatures for the ignition 2.22.0 release
  • f41-updates-testing compose failing sanity check and failing
  • Merge f43-perl side tag into f43
  • F43 system-wide change: GNU Toolchain update for F43 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GNUToolchainF43
  • Broken fork
  • F39 Archives are still not cleaned up
  • Not able to view info for any rpm in Koji
  • Uring IO disabled on ppc64le koji builders?
  • Fedora-KDE-42-1.1-x86_64-CHECKSUM has wrong ISO filename
  • F40 end of life
  • a few mass rebuild bumps failed to git push - script should retry or error
  • Package retirements are broken in rawhide

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on matrix.

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