Keeping the undesirables out of your system
The Rebuild Algorithm Slow and Steady Wins the Race The Fedora ELN SIG maintains a tool called ELNBuildSync (or EBS) which is responsible for monitoring traffic on the Fedora Messaging Bus and listening for Koji tagging events. When a package is tagged into Rawhide (meaning it has passed Fedora QA Gating and is headed to … Continue reading Sausage Factory: Fedora ELN Rebuild Strategy (2026…
SSCG 4.0.0 Release Announcement We are excited to announce the release of SSCG 4.0.0! This major release brings significant new features, modernization improvements, and important breaking changes. 🎉 Highlights Post-Quantum Cryptography Support SSCG now supports ML-DSA (Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm) key generation, bringing post-quantum cryptography capabilities to the tool.…
This past week, as part of a series of experiments that I’ve been running to evaluate the viability of AI-supported coding, I decided that I would spend some time with the Cursor IDE, powered by the Claude 4 Sonnet large language model. Specifically, I was looking to expand the test suite of my SSCG project … Continue reading SSCG 3.0.8: Brought to you in part by Claude
Another year, another Fedora contributor conference! This year, Flock to Fedora returned to Prague, Czechia. It’s a beautiful city and always worth taking a long walk around, which is what many of the conference attendees did the day before the conference started officially. Unfortunately, my flight didn’t get in until far too late to attend, … Continue reading Trip Report: Flock to Fedora 2025
Yesterday, as I was scrolling on social media I happened across a post. It was one of those basic “nostalgic picture with an excessively generic quote” posts that seems to be “recommended” every seventh entry or so. This one caught my eye, though for reasons I couldn’t immediately describe. It was a picture of kids … Continue reading “No one remembers ‘that one day I spent in front of the TV'”
Checking In It’s been a few days since my first entry in this series. For the most part, things have been going quite smoothly. I have to say, I am liking KDE Plasma Workspaces 6 much better than previous releases (which I dabbled with but admittedly did not spend a significant amount of time using). … Continue reading One Week With KDE Plasma Workspaces 6 on Fedora 40 Beta (Vol. 2)
Why am I doing this? As my readers may be aware, I have been a member of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) for over a decade. One of the primary responsibilities of this nine-person body is to review the Fedora Change Proposals submitted by contributors and provide feedback as well as being the final … Continue reading One Week With KDE Plasma Workspaces 6 on Fedora 40 Beta (Vol.…
This blog post is out of date! Please see the latest version at https://sgallagh.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/sausage-factory-fedora-eln-rebuild-strategy-2026-edition/ The Rebuild Algorithm (2023 Edition) Slow and Steady Wins the Race The Fedora ELN SIG maintains a tool called ELNBuildSync (or EBS) which is responsible for monitoring traffic on the Fedora Messaging Bus and listening for Koji tagging…
Module Masquerade Last week during Flock to Fedora, we had a discussion about what is needed to build a module outside of the Fedora infrastructure (such as through COPR or OBS). I had some thoughts on this and so I decided to perform a few experiments to see if I could write up a set … Continue reading Sausage Factory: Modules – Fake it till you make it
Just flew back from Flock to Fedora in Budapest, Hungary and boy are my arms tired! As always, it was an excellent meeting of the minds in Fedora. I even had the opportunity to meet my Outreachy intern, Niharika Shrivastava! Day One – Thursday As usual, the conference began with Matthew Miller’s traditional “State of … Continue reading Flock 2019 Trip Report