Jakub Kadlcik
Special guest
Jakub Kadlčík, known in the Fedora community as FrostyX, is a software developer at Red Hat where he works on Copr, Fedora's build system for custom package repositories. A decade-long Fedora contributor, he has built several tools to reduce friction in the packaging pipeline, including the Fedora Review Service, the Packager Sponsors finder, and most recently has been sharing his work in public through a live coding YouTube channel.
Jakub Kadlcik has been a guest on 1 episode.
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55: Fixing Fedora's Packaging Pipeline
June 9th, 2026 | 51 mins 53 secs
copr, fedora, fedora community, fedora contributor, fedora development, fedora review service, forgejo, frostyx, linux, live coding, open source, open source contribution, package review, packager sponsor, packaging tools, packit, rpm packaging, src.fedoraproject.org
Getting a package into Fedora takes more than just writing a spec file. There's a review queue, a sponsorship bottleneck, and a contribution process that can feel opaque to newcomers. Jakub Kadlcik has spent a decade inside that pipeline as a Copr developer and maintainer, and he's been quietly building tools to fix the parts that frustrate him most.