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This is a summary of important goals for the Fedora Engineering team for Red Hat Fiscal Year 2017 (March 2016 - February 2017).

Please note this is not a comprehensive list. Many team members have numerous additional goals for contribution to the project. In addition, all team members work with the community ad-hoc throughout the year to troubleshoot problems, mentor new contributors, and create additional opportunities for community participation.

While Red Hat employees on the team are accountable for the progress of these goals, each one is fully open to the community to participate. Contribution is essential to achieving these goals, and we want and need the community's help! In Fedora, there is no such thing as "someone else's problem." We are all part of the solution. The indicator of a lead person shows accountability for whatever work the Fedora Engineering team has committed to. It may not be the same as a person leading an overall project.

Infrastructure and General

To help with these goals, contact the Infrastructure team -- #fedora-admin[?].

Description Lead Person Target
Finish storage research. Consult with other consumers and Red Hat owners/users of storage products to ensure in the future we are buying the best solution for our needs, with a preference to fully open source products. This must be completed in advance of the next Red Hat budget cycle. Ebenezer Smooge Q3
Bring secondary arch infra into Fedora infra s390, ppc and arm secondary arches currently manage their own infra in a add hoc and less than ideal manner. Merge them into main Fedora infrastructure for common CM, updates, support and monitoring Kevin Fenzi Q3
Data-driven ansible config make our nagios and fedmsg configs dynamically generated from our inventory and group/host vars. Ralph Bean Q4

Application development

To help with these goals, contact the Infrastructure Applications team -- #fedora-apps[?].

Description Lead Person Alley-oop Target
API keys Implement central API key stuff, and give less messy CLI login. Patrick Uiterwijk Q2
SSO/SLO Add single sign on and single logout to core webapps. Patrick Uiterwijk Q2
FAS 3 Tentative, pending discussion on this plan with the team Q3
Hubs Implementation Prepare at least two (2) community hubs running in production in time for Flock 2016. Pierre-Yves Chibon Ralph Bean? Q2

Design and content

To help with these goals, contact the Design team -- #fedora-design[?].

Description Category Lead Person Target
Hubs design New Contributor UX Máirín Duffy
Bootstrap (list apps here, TBD) Ryan Lerch

Kernel

To help with these goals, contact the Kernel team -- #fedora-kernel[?].

Team High Level Goals

  • Plan for and deliver high quality kernel for upcoming Fedora releases
  • Improve team efficiency and community collaboration
  • Increase participation in upstream kernel community

Goals

Specific action items will be derived from these goals.

Description Category Lead Person Target
Increase upstream kernel reviews and bugfixes. Upstream is continually looking for additional patch reviews. By increasing our participation there we can help avoid bugs. We'll also use this to increase our team's overall knowledge by gaining a deeper understanding of various focus areas within the kernel. Upstream
Publish various communications about the Fedora kernel. The kernel is often a hot topic in various communities. We'll look at continuing the upstream Fedora patch reports, and possibly writing articles for Fedora Magazine. Collaboration
Community Outreach The Fedora kernel community has several active members but could always improve. Through efforts like Outreachy, we can grow the understanding and expertise of interested community members. Outreach
Improved popular platform support People like to use their hardware with a minimum amount of fuss. Look into ways to accomplish this for popular hardware. Hardware enablement
Architecture support The primary Fedora platform is x86_64. However, there are always interesting things happening on other architectures such as armv7hl, arm64, etc. We'll investigate possible areas where we as a team can help further progress or provide solutions with these architectures. Architecture

Work Items

Description Lead Person Target
Upstream patch reviews and bugfixes All FY
Blog/magazine postings on kernel topics All FY
Release maintenance All FY

Problems