This is the biggest panel the show has ever had. Amy Marrich chairs the CentOS Board and does technical marketing for OpenStack at Red Hat. Troy Dawson leads the CentOS Stream team, sits on the board, and builds CentOS Stream for RISC-V. Shaun McCance is the CentOS Community Architect, and as of two weeks ago the Fedora Community Architect as well.

We get into:

• Why CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream are different projects, and why one of them retired around RHEL 9
• The pipeline: Fedora, then Fedora ELN, then CentOS Stream, then RHEL, and why Btrfs is the example everyone reaches for
• How Stream and RHEL now build from the same commit, on a one-week cadence versus six months
• Why partners shipped on RHEL 9 launch day because they had been building against Stream 9
• How the board actually works, why only one seat speaks for Red Hat, and what the SIGs and the SIG Council do
• Where to file a bug (against RHEL, not at Troy)
• How to contribute without writing code, and why being new makes you good at documentation

There is a written companion post at https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep59-what-is-centos/

Special Guests: Amy Marrich, Shaun McCance, and Troy Dawson.

The Fedora Podcast features interviews and talks with the people who make the Fedora community awesome! These folks work on new technologies found in Fedora, produce the distro itself, or help put Fedora into the hands of users. There is so much going on in Fedora that it takes a whole podcast series!

🖥️ Get Started with Fedora Linux: https://fedoraproject.org

📢 Follow the Fedora Podcast: https://podcast.fedoraproject.org

🗣️ Chat With Us in the Fedora Podcast room: https://matrix.to/#/#podcast:fedoraproject.org

🫂 Become a Part of the Fedora Community: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/

📱 Connect with Eric "the IT Guy" Hendricks: https://linktr.ee/itguyeric

🔗 Additional Resources

EPEL
https://epel.io

EPEL Uncovered: The Unsung Hero of Enterprise Linux | Fedora Podcast 26
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ls3fSAHZNL8?si=KaATYPFpugADi1Y9

Diagram: EPEL10
https://carlwgeorge.fedorapeople.org/diagrams/el10.png

EPEL 10 Proposal
https://red.ht/epel10

Become a Fedora packager
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Package_Maintainers/

Join the QA Team
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join

CentOS Stream a preview of RHEL, a solid base for CentOS SIGs
https://youtu.be/LNJtXYOSMio

🔖 Chapters:

00:00 Stream start
01:15 Introductions
05:51 What is EPEL?
10:56 Adding a Package to EPEL
15:00 EPEL 10
23:45 Future of EPEL
32:45 How to Contribute?
46:00 Wrap up

Special Guests: Adam Samalik and Carl George.

The Fedora Podcast brings you exclusive interviews and deep dives with the innovators and contributors who make the Fedora community amazing! From cutting-edge technologies to the production of the Fedora distro itself, we chat with the minds behind it all. Whether you're a longtime user or just curious, there’s always something new to discover in the world of Fedora.

🎬 New to Fedora? Get Started Here: https://fedoraproject.org/
🎙️ Follow the Fedora Podcast: https://podcast.fedoraproject.org
💬 Join the Conversation: https://matrix.to/#/#podcast:fedoraproject.org
🌐 Become Part of the Fedora community: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/
📱 Connect with Eric "the IT Guy" Hendricks: https://linktr.ee/itguyeric

🔗Episode Resources
Neal Gompa: https://fosstodon.org/@Conan_Kudo
Neal's website: https://neal.gompa.dev/
GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/Conan-Kudo

🔖 Chapters
00:00 Stream start
00:20 Introductions
01:56 Meet Neal
05:55 Neal meet's tech
12:01 Getting into open source
21:50 Contributions to Fedora
28:15 Community of communities
32:52 Present and future
40:45 Fedora Asahi
43:00 Closing thoughts

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.