What Does Fedora Want From Me Today?

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:54:48 -0400

I began contributing as a packager with Fedora a few years ago, in concert with my participation in founding and bootstrapping Rocky Linux from the ground up. That alone deserves a blog post series I may write some day… but more to the point… I haven’t done a great job of maintaining my packages. There’s a host of reasons I could get into for why, but particularly in light of having a newborn and therefore much more limited time and energy than I ever thought was possible, optimizing my workflows and maximizing my impact (and reducing ownership of things where needed) are the most powerful knobs I can use to make the greatest difference not just in Fedora but across all the things I involve myself with.

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What Does Fedora Want From Me Today?