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Another frozen week before the Fedora 44 release, just a few notable things:

18 Apr 2026 4:10pm GMT

As my arrival flight to Bangkok was scheduled to depart at around 0700am Indian Standard Time, I had to wake up as early as 0230am Indian Standard Time on 07th March 2026. The packing had already been taken care of previously, so all I had to take care of was ensuring that I got myself an Uber ride to the Pune International Airport in time. Thankfully, unlike my experiences from DevConf.IN 2026, I was able to get one pretty quickly, and at around 0400am Indian Standard Time, I reached the airport. The check-in process went smoothly, since I was not carrying much luggage anyway to begin with on my Air India Express flight. With my physical boarding pass in hand, I headed upstairs to wait for the immigration booths to open for the day. After forty-five minutes of waiting, the gates finally opened up, and I made it to the security check after smooth processing. The fact that I had my Thailand Digital Arrival Card registration done in advance helped me get through to the designated gate 1A without much hassle. I ended up having a lot of time left on my hands, so I decided to connect with the Egencia service about the troubled accommodation booking while I waited for boarding to begin.

Moving away from two noisy groups of travellers - one with senior citizens and one with rowdy men - I got myself a place to sit as I rang up the Egencia customer care helpline. Since 0530am Indian Standard Time was still a little early for their working hours, it took me a while to connect with a human representative. A helpful attendant attempted to connect with the Lumen Bangkok Udomsuk Station hotel employees, but that did not work out. I decided to board the flight anyway at around 0645am Indian Standard Time and leave the concerns about the troubled accommodation booking for when I would have reached Bangkok. There was not much that I could have done at that time to help the situation, and besides the issues that we had with Egencia regarding the flight confirmation, this worry would most likely have soured my entire experience. After a quick switch of seats from 7A to 6A, on a fellow passenger's request, I decided to watch some movies, such as Code 3 (2025) and Zootopia 2 (2025), on my phone. The Kebab Platter was soon served, and that allowed me to catch up on some rest that I was lacking due to having to wake up early in the morning just to make it to the airport.

The flight soon landed at the Suvarnabhumi Bangkok International Airport at around 1230pm Indochina Time, and after connecting with my family to let them know about my safe arrival, I headed swiftly into the immigration queue. The overcrowded traveller collective took me about forty-five minutes to make it through to the other side, where I found that the designated luggage belt #21 had finished delivering all of its luggage. After crossing a big group of Chinese travellers, I got myself a data plan from True 5G at the airport exit. 599 Thai Baht for 8 days of unlimited service was a great deal, and that allowed me to stay connected with both my family and friends, and with Samyak Jain, with whom I was representing the Fedora Project APAC community at FOSSAsia 2026. The humidity I faced after stepping out of the airport took me by surprise because it was even warmer there than it was in India. After unsuccessfully looking for a Grab ride that I had booked for about thirty minutes or so, I finally got one whose driver did a great job crossing over the language barrier and explaining where to find them amidst a rather crowded station of rides available for hire and buses that went into the city.

I connected with Samyak while I started off on the road at around 0230pm Indochina Time to instruct him about Airport Gate #4, where he could avail himself of a Grab ride, and that way he could avoid wasting that thirty minutes like I did. While connecting with my family during the Grab ride, I also commended the driver for just how clear they were with their communication while making the best utilization of the Grab application's live message translation feature for international travellers. I did not realize how swiftly I managed to reach the hotel at about 0315pm Indochina Time after all the immigration and cabbing troubles. Thankfully, the folks at the Lumen Bangkok Udomsuk Station gave me no trouble with the booking, and I was able to check into my room #703 rather swiftly. In contrast to the experience that I thought I would have, they also topped off their welcoming gesture with a cool popsicle-like snack as I headed downstairs to fetch the passport that I had left at the reception. With one less thing to worry about, Samyak and I still had to make it to the BTS Chit Lom station by 0430pm Indochina Time to meet up and join the FOSSAsia Community Cycling trip.

As Samyak touched down at around 0230pm Indochina Time, I had to proceed by myself to meet up with Mishari Muqbil after a quick changeover in my hotel room. After a brief struggle with finding an ATM and then losing about 250 Thai Baht for the international conversion, I made it back to the BTS Udomsuk station, which only accepted cash (and did not even provide receipts to track expenses!) but was thankfully situated right in front of my hotel. It took me thirty minutes to make it to the BTS Chit Lom station at around 0415pm Indochina Time, but I had to spend the remaining thirty minutes chasing Mishari's waypoint on Google Maps. As I flew in my bicycle helmet all the way from Pune, I had no plans of skipping the FOSSAsia Community Cycling Trip, and while it was my first time visiting Thailand, I did find myself audaciously picking trains and walking through as if I was exploring my backyard. I think I might have to credit the hotel reception and the BTS security for their welcoming behaviour, which made me want to leave the hotel room right after arrival because I genuinely wanted to experience more of what Bangkok had to offer, even when I was dead tired from the travels.

I was finally able to make it to the river jetty, where I met up with Mishari, Michael Christen, Anuvrat Parashar, Shivani Parashar, and others. The adventurous ordeal of catching up with them was rewarded with a scenic boat ride to the starting point of the FOSSAsia Community Cycling Trip. I managed to learn more about what Michael does with his work on YaCy and shared what I do as a part of the Fedora Council, the Fedora Mindshare, and the Fedora Infrastructure teams in the Fedora Project community activities. There were folks there for the first time like myself, and there were also those who had attended FOSSAsia since its beginning, so it was enlightening to know their experiences from this conference. During a brisk walk-and-talk with Anuvrat and other participants to the starting point of the cycling trip, I got to know about his frequent involvement in the PyCon organization and DGPLUG communities. Once we were joined by a couple of Mishari's friends and Wendy Ha, we began unlocking the rental bicycles using our HelloRide application, and Mishari gave us a quick orientation about street safety regulations at around 0530pm Indochina Time.

And there began our slow-paced ride through the alleys and streets of Bangkok! With Mishari and his friends leading our collective, I found myself at the start of our sequence, discussing with Bee about his involvement in technology. As a proving ground for their cartographic skills, we wove through a lot of parks, and I noticed a great number of cats along the various pathways we took. Since the cycling trip did not have many elevation changes to deal with, I took the liberty of falling behind in the sequence to chat with the likes of Wendy and Michael every now and then. At around 0630pm Indochina Time, we made our first stop at an independent family-owned chocolate store where we sampled many chocolates and purchased some beverages too. We were able to keep our rental bicycles safe using Mishari's (as Shivani hilariously named) "CYCLE-ogical protection," which mostly consisted of a loosely placed rope. This first stop also allowed Samyak to finally catch up with our collective, as I discovered him coincidentally heading in the opposite direction when we were on our way out. Tracking his location over WhatsApp's location sharing definitely seems to have been the right choice.

It was rather funny to finally catch up with Samyak on a random Bangkok evening street after having missed the chance at the airport and at the hotel. Our collective made the next stop at another independent family-owned ice cream parlour located in a deep alleyway at around 0700pm Indochina Time. While the location was tucked away in a seemingly long-forgotten corner of Bangkok, the place definitely had a very home-like feeling to it. We, of course, got busy sampling undiscovered flavours and ordering favourite ones for the break. After spending another thirty minutes there with my Butterfly Pea cold cone (and some obligatory badly written jokes by Mishari), we had a bunch of photographs clicked. Once we departed from the ice cream parlour, we found ourselves pausing every now and then due to certain cartographically inclined confusions, but our "vibe-riding" (as I hilariously named our fun experience) never had a dull moment. Through the riverside pathways to a restricted university, we seemed to be in the front seat of exploring what stories these streets and alleys of Bangkok had to offer-and as tired as I was, it still felt like we were just getting started and there was more to discover!

While we did have a bunch of registrations for the FOSSAsia community cycling trip, we barely had half of them turn up, so Mishari decided that it would be best if we found ourselves a dining place. After he quickly helped Samyak with his bicycle height, we caught up with the remaining group for yet another round of photographs - this time in front of a Bumblebee statue at a cross-section, if you can believe it. We also halted in front of the Royal Palace for a quick shoot before inching closer to the nearest drop-off point for the HelloRide rental bicycle center. Thankfully, I was able to take Bee's sweet custom ride for a quick spin before leaving, as it was filled to the brim with all the bells and whistles for an exhilarating street cycling experience. With about 80 Thai Baht spent for the HelloRide trip, some of us made it to the KemKon Vegan Experience Restaurant. As both Samyak and I had skipped lunch and exerted ourselves since the morning, we were starving. I was glad to note that while the menu was completely vegan, I still ended up liking the Make-believe Fried Fish Fritters that I had ordered for myself, both for the delicious taste and the quick service.

Apart from the nutritional values, of course, it was astonishing to notice just how close the vegan dish ended up tasting like a non-vegetarian one. Adding some spicy chili-flavoured oil on top of it all made it taste like heaven, and I could not see a better way to end the night than with this amazing meal. After clearing our bills, Shivani and Anuvrat stayed back at the market to explore some more, while Samyak, Mishari, and I headed back to the main road to catch a Grab ride to the hotel. It was magical just how we felt at home connecting with folks from various free and open-source software communities, all while doing activities like riding bicycles or sharing meals. The two of us were soon back in our hotel rooms, and apart from one misadventure of requiring the hotel staff's assistance to unlock the heavily jammed bathroom door, our arrival in Bangkok was super awesome. After a quick message to Julia Bley to inform her about our safe arrival at the conference and to conclude our saga of troubled travels, I called it a day at around 1130pm Indochina Time. There was so much to look forward to at the Community Day in FOSSAsia 2026, and I wanted to ensure that I was rested enough to experience the same.

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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: 13 - 17 Apr 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

• [Badges/Outreachy] Reviewed over 15 pull requests across Tahrir and Tahrir API
• Requesting a new FAS group for quick-docs
• investigate why devel-announce posts are not sending to devel
• heavybuilder request for ROCm packages
• Anubis breaks openQA developer mode (websockets)
• Quality Blockerbugs app secret storage update
• websites not being build till 20th Jan 2026
• packages app is down: `Error communicating with Solr`

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

• Add Konflux to the allow-list of content Generators for Koji
• Hardware issue (failed HDD) on a storage host in Stream Infra
• CBS signing maintenance
• isa riscv - add another external repo
• isa riscv buildroot tweeks
• DC maintenance on www pool members

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

• Producing release candidates for Fedora 44 Final release.
• F44 GO/NO-GO meeting is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, April 16th.
• Some work related to the migration to Forgejo..
• OpenH264 RPMs are now published for F44 and Rawhide (F45).
• Otherwise business as usual operations.

RISC-V

This is the summary of the work done regarding the RISC-V architecture in Fedora.

• F44 rebuild in full swing:
  • GCC 16 builds slowed down some progress, but a workaround version was used to compensate.
  • The diff with F43 is about 1K packages
• Discussed setting up Pungi for "compose' artifacts (installation & kickstart trees, ISOs, etc)
• RISC-V "omni kernels" (formerly "unified kernel")
  • kernel 7.0 is in the mainline repository and work is proceeding normally (Jason)
  • A new f44-omni tag and target will be in Koji to support a single omni kernel.

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.

• Still focused on F44 Final validation and blocker resolution. Early release target was missed due to unfixed blockers, target #1 is still possible but at risk, still waiting on blocker fixes: Plasma network config issue related to NetworkManager, GNOME initial setup hang on NVIDIA (airlied is making progress on this one as I type)
• Reported an issue affecting the Carbon Gen 13 laptop model, i.e. affecting future CSB and associates laptops. Notified the CSB team.

Forgejo

This team is working on introduction of https://forge.fedoraproject.org to Fedora
and migration of repositories from pagure.io.

• [Forgejo] Include documentation for Forgejo W2FM support [Commit] [Resolved]
• [Forgejo] Move Fedora Badges static assets from Pagure to Forgejo [Triaged]
• [Forgejo] Private Issues, Web UI: List the private issues in its separate section [Triaged] [Followup]
• [Forgejo] Private Issues, Web UI: Show the private issue ticket contents [Triaged] [Followup]
• Bunch of new runners for various orgs deployed
• Automated runner VM creation: last pieces of automation added (ansible pull and podman socket setting) and tested on staging
• 14.0.4 Forge image ready to be deployed on staging, RPM package built and available in testing
• Investigating the option of providing aarch64 runners
• Private Issues: shared branch created, blocking items identified and being addressed (rebase ongoing)

EPEL

This team is working on keeping Epel running and helping package things.

• Routine packaging work, including backporting multiple CVE fixes to tinyproxy and python-cbor2. Also filed eight FTI (fail-to-install) bugs and updated three packages.
• Refinement work on EPEL minor EOL SOP, which will be used next month when EPEL 10.1 reaches EOL.
• Continued collaboration with RHEL Lightspeed team on goose packaging work.

UX

This team is working on improving User experience. Providing artwork, user experience,
usability, and general design services to the Fedora project

• Emma was on the Fedora Podcast with Justin to talk about Flock 2026 and the branding! [Youtube link]
• Continuing working with contributor on poster about getting involved with Fedora community [Ticket link]
• Some progress on Flock designs [Ticket link]

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #admin:fedoraproject.org channel on matrix.

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