Fedora Project Podcast

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.