Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:

CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream
Manager of the Anaconda and Cockpit teams
Fedora Ambassador, former FESCo and Fedora Council member
PhD in Geometry and Topology
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2025-04-23 15:06:33 UTC

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"But I am not running myself, what can I do?"
1) Think about who can represent your voice in #Fedora
2) *Tell them* that you think that they might be good at representing your voice in Fedora.
This is a critically important step, because often people who are good for these roles are not aware that they are good at them.
3) Learn about people nominated for elections. Talk to them, ask their opinion on various topics.
4) Vote.

2025-04-23 15:06:04 UTC

We tend to not care about elections, until it becomes too late to care about elections. And FOSS projects are no different.
For years we have very low attendance in Fedora Council, and only slightly better attendance at FESCo.
Thus, #Fedora people, please pay attention. We are entering the new Fedora election cycle and you should take a look at it.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-elections-nominations-open-april-24/150255

2025-03-18 20:33:32 UTC

Fedora is a community-driven project sponsored by Red Hat.
By writing news like "Red Hat presented Fedora KDE Edition" you do not just misrepresent the Fedora Project, you also undermine the effort of Fedora community members who did all the work to make KDE Spin into an Edition.
Please do recognize and give a credit to the community.
And if you have questions about Fedora governance, we are here - at discussion.fedoraproject.org, at release parties, on social networks, just ask
#Fedora #KDE

2025-03-04 13:26:38 UTC

When discussing digital independence, keep in mind that it works differently for proprietary products and FOSS.
To achieve independence from a proprietary software or service you need to _get out_ - stop using it, create and switch to an alternative.
To achieve independence with FOSS projects, you need to get _in_ - invest resources (human, infra,.. not money) in the project and its ecosystem, so that it becomes yours.

2025-01-06 13:58:10 UTC

The "culture fit" question at a job interview should be:
"when do you think it is appropriate to use `channel` and `here` handles in a Slack chat?"

2024-12-24 10:04:57 UTC

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I still think that "Clone and Pull" model would be superior for drive-by contributors. "Fork" usually means overhead of long-term maintenance of your own "version" of a project in your own space, while often you just want to send a change request one time, not to become a real admin of your own full copy.
But that's an implementation detail.

2024-12-22 11:33:12 UTC

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With my Fedora Council hat on, I'd say it is a win for Fedora.
It has been a long open discussion in the project whether tools to make the project should be considered part of it. This discussion is far from done, but I am glad that we are recognising the value of FOSS and collaboration on the development tools, not just the content being developed.

2024-10-22 11:30:01 UTC

For many years it was easier and faster for me to search for a man page on the web than to read the man page of the command in the terminal window.
Formatting was usually better, links were clickable, there could also be useful stackoverflow questions in the search output... Local docs became mostly irrelevant.
Nowadays web search is no longer the answer. Getting to click through 15 ads and a cookie banner to read a man page? What personal data you could possibly need from me there?

2024-08-27 11:00:40 UTC

Hot take:
"town square" is not the best model for open public discourse, and should not be treated as the Holy Grail of social networking.

2024-08-06 14:07:10 UTC

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I think the big part of the conversation should also be about allowing other CI owners to provide CI/CD feedback on your projects.
It provides the "federated" part of integration testing, which complements the decentralization aspect.