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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:

@bookwar@floss.social
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* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream
* Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat
* Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member
* PhD in Geometry and Topology
* she/her

Matrix: @bookwar@floss.social:fedora.im

I use this account for FOSS debates.

For more personal stuff see @bookwar@nrw.social

Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none.

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I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

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Joined April 25, 2025
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Aug 03, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Fun fact: I was introduced to the concept of meritocracy in my local russian-speaking community. Which means I had no prior knowledge of the term, nor I did any reading on it. I just trusted what a fellow Fedora contributor told me. And they told me that meritocracy means that "those who _do_ things, should decide _how_ to do them". Not those who are most clever, not those who are the most right, but those who _do_. Only a decade later I learned that people may think about merit differently.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Aug 03, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @LonM@social.vivaldi.net
@LonM@social.vivaldi.net To be fair, I applied the same method to study Calculus at the uni once. Literally rewriting, with pen and paper, the course materials from the notes I wrote during the course into the new notebook sentence by sentence trying to understand it as I go. It helps to keep the focus and prevents you from skimming through the content too fast. It might be not the most effective way, And we had better handled courses after that one, but it is a working approach in some cases. @sushee@ohai.social
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Jun 29, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io
@inthehands@hachyderm.io I like the article, but not the "liberal arts against STEM" comments it triggers :) I think it might be not about _what_ you teach but _how_ you do it. Because the Mathematics I studied was a liberal art in this framework. There is much more in Mathematics and STEM as a whole than the calculus needed for the industry. And I believe one can and should teach STEM as an art, not as a "how to get employed as fast as possible" discipline. @puercomal@sfba.social @pattykimura@beige.party
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Jun 28, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Does anyone run a public blocklist of "fake news aggregator" sites, i.e. AI-generated sites which publish the articles they scraped impersonating the original authors? Is there already some firefox extension, search setting, whatever tool to block them or show a big red banner when browsing them? I got fooled by one just recently, and don't want it to happen again. --- Also need to add one of my old domains there, which I let go a couple of years ago.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · May 04, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @bookwar@floss.social
And yes, it means governments should stop trying to develop code - a thing which they never ever done well. They should do what they actually know how to do - build public institutions, shared standards and requirements. They should invest in free education, knowledge sharing, and communication infrastructure.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · May 04, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

Open Source code doesn't have citizenship, Open Source maintainers do.

Any Digital-whatever story should be a story about people, not code.

Rewriting existing code under a different logo doesn't bring you the sovereignty. It brings you a pile of tech debt, never-ending game of trying to catch up with the project you are rewriting, and isolation.

Sovereignty (and many other good things) comes from creating local distributed _expertise_ in the common shared code base.

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 30, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud Well, I can not claim to know every user or contributor's heart, but as an elected Fedora Council member, aggregating the community sentiment into some sort of shared vision is part of my job :) And I think the question is not "who is more reliable". The question is - _what_ can we do to increase the mutual trust and reliability. 1/ @jcm @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 30, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @bookwar@floss.social
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I think one of the big reasons why Flatpak conversations become so unnecessary heated is that somehow folks take that question too personally. No, we don't claim that all upstream developers are unreliable. But we need to build a system which survives when one of the upstreams becomes unreliable. It doesn't survive it by "packagers being better", it survives by the org structure being built for it. And "we" here - is "anyone who is distributing something" @jcm @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 30, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud Working with the reliable trusted upstream is always nice. And it is not a big problem for any form of the distribution. Packaging a well-designed, well-licensed and well-versioned app into a rpm or deb is a no brainer too. And upstream first policy in Fedora specifically discourages any changes to such upstream code because there is no justification for them. But this thread started with a question, what happens when upstream fails in some way. @jcm @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 29, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud The reality is - the moment you start distributing something - you become a distribution :) You have a choice to be a single person distribution or a community driven one. It can be a set of Flatpaks or a GNOME OS - it doesn't matter. Your users will ask you for support, CVE responses, code of conduct and lifecycle anyway. And if you want to build a new type of distro, with new policies and new packages - it is totally fine with me. As long as you respect others. @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 29, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I realize you are on a crusade against Fedora. And I am sad that your previous interactions with the project had such an impact. But my intent is not to advertise it. My intent is to explain that FOSS is much more than a pile of source code published in some Git repos. FOSS is people, org structures, policies, processes and politics around them. It is sometimes (often) frustrating, but it is how we solve the problem of a single isolated upstream developer. @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 29, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud You are trying to put "random people" on one side and then "distros" on the other. But there are no sides. My point is - distribution is a form of organization which allows random people to collaborate more efficiently. When one random person discovers something, they have the distribution organization which helps them reach other random persons and then take a collective action on that discovery. @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 29, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud It was literally reported through the distro security communication channels because the upstream was compromised and the "random person" relied on distro to handle it. "Given the apparent upstream involvement I have not reported an upstream bug. As I initially thought it was a debian specific issue, I sent a more preliminary report to security@...ian.org. Subsequently I reported the issue to distros@. CISA was notified by a distribution." https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 29, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @b0rk@social.jvns.ca
@b0rk There are shared tech problems: like 32-bit to 64-bit, or Wayland, or ipv6, or post quantum crypto, or coreutils in rust... When we try to collaborate on cross-project issues we need a forum and distros become the places to go. There are also a political and social topics. Which I admit are much harder, see FSF-controversy, Code of Conduct topics, AI-policies.. Distros make statements, endorse (or not) licenses and rules, and generally try to represent the voice of its community.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 29, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @b0rk@social.jvns.ca
@b0rk RIght. Distributions have social, infra and coordination functions. They essentially allow FOSS developers to unionize and try to solve the shared problems together. They also provide the supporting structure which turns the single XKCD-dependency guy into a part of a larger platform https://floss.social/@bookwar/115082628376476848 We tend to over-emphasize the packaging (as in creating a specific package format) as the major function of a distribution, but it is not the goal rather the means.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 29, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @b0rk@social.jvns.ca
@b0rk It is a good article. But as a distro developer I am quite sad that such developer conversations neglect the role and the purpose of distribution projects. Distributions do in fact represent a middle ground between going self-hosted and over-relying on a bit tech third-party. They are made to solve the dependencies issues, to help with discovery, to serve as archives and as places to ask for help and collaboration. Come to us, we have cookies :)
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 24, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @bookwar@floss.social
And while I am at it, I also found quite cool idea on making the timeline slider more usable. Right now it allows you to jump to a specific post number. But nothing in the UI actually tells you about the post number, so it is not usable on its own. The feature suggests adding breakpoints, so you can jump to a liked or a bookmarked post. I think it could be very usable when you are doing a first pass through a long thread and mark posts you want to reply to. https://meta.discourse.org/t/natural-breakpoints-or-chapters-for-long-topics/16461
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 24, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

Apparently, #Discourse has just landed the nested replies support

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38888

It can be previewed on meta.discourse.org if you replace `/t/` with `/n/` in the thread url.

For ex.
https://meta.discourse.org/n/im-writing-a-short-documentation-for-admins-of-discourse-forums-ive-helped-set-up-do-i-miss-something-in-it/392246

I think the default theme is too white and makes the thread structure hard to recognize.

But I am looking forward to the future adjustments.

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 10, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I think one skill we need to (re)learn is that we don't have to perfectly align to collaborate. It is OK to have different but overlapping goals, it is OK to have different interests and priorities, And we can still collaborate with all that. The wide open Internet gave us the opportunity to reach to many like-minded people, which is really cool. But it also gave us the way to too easily escape the need to cooperate with people who are not as like-minded.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 23, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @liw@toot.liw.fi
@liw Ok, proving your point, I guess.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 23, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @bookwar@floss.social
And it is exactly the core issue: we can not just create a perfect piece of the forum software somewhere on the side, prove that it works, then come to a mailing list and say - hey, we made it, migrate all. Because the presence of those people sitting on the mailing list in that forum is the main thing which makes a forum good. Not the technology.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 23, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @liw@toot.liw.fi
@liw Sorry, I know you said no debate. But I think there is important part missing: In my interpretation forum is not a specific piece of software. It is a project, people, culture, workflows, rules, etc. And to make it work we need people who know these aspects to recognize that they need to seed them outside of the mailing lists walls. You do not say "show me a good forum for me to migrate to and I consider it". You migrate and make it a good forum, using your expertise and experience.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 23, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @liw@toot.liw.fi
@liw We need more forums. We need to revive and embrace the forum culture. And I am sad to say it but people sticking to mailing lists are partially responsible for this not happening. They have good intent. They defend the mailing list style of discourse, but they are not saving it, they gatekeep it. They do not let us move this style anywhere to a more accessible place. And it only can move *with* them. And this leads to social networks taking over that role in all the bad ways.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 22, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @codonell@fosstodon.org
@codonell@fosstodon.org Good thing I never reply to mine.. :)
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 22, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @bookwar@floss.social
@codonell@fosstodon.org Also there is currently no visual hint when you look at the list whether you have already reached the top or are looking somewhere in the middle. The scroll bar disappears when you are idle. So basically whenever I switch to the Thunderbird UI window from somewhere else I am never confident that I am looking at the latest mail. Which I guess is the main issue here.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 22, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

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@codonell@fosstodon.org In the Cards View even that tiny arrow is missing. I think a simple banner on top or at the bottom of the visible list of mails, which would say "Newer" or "Older", would work for me. Not a big banner, just a thin line with one word in the middle, always visible. I know people would complain about precious vertical space, but it would worth it for me :)
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 22, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

The one improvement in Thunderbird which would help me quite a lot would be to add an easy visual hint in which order the mailbox is sorted.

Should I scroll down to newer messages, or up?

I guess the issue is of my own making, because i have the inconsistency in this behavior between different accounts and interfaces.

But I so often find myself doomscrolling through my seems-to-be-infinte inbox in the wrong direction..

#Thunderbird

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 19, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

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Replying to @bookwar@floss.social
And by protocols i do not mean network protocols between services, or activity pub. Protocols means set of rules, agreements, processes and policies, which may be implemented through some different means: docs, linters on ansible playbooks, integration tests, writings on the wall.. whatever.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 19, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @bookwar@floss.social
Yes, you are allowed to deploy 15 Jenkins side by side. That's ok. It's not a mistake, it is a good practice! It is a practice which works. You control them from one config repo using similar tools. Most importantly, you use the unified naming schema for jobs and artifacts across all of them, and that is enough integration.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 19, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

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Can we embrace that as a real working approach, not only pass through it temporary on our way to destroy everything again.
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 19, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

Why the idea of federation in the IT infra is so hard?

We are constantly jumping between "everyone has their own playground" -> "oh, no, such chaos, let's centralize everything" -> "oh no, so hard to do any change, let's give everyone a sandbox"

Can we finally get the interoperable federated sandboxes which can be governed locally but follow some global protocols to allow the integration between them?

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 19, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

I wish it would be a rule, so that for any senior enough manager to talk about pipelines, fully automated infrastructures and continuous delivery, they should show a successful Factorio run first.

And not on a peaceful mode.

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 17, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

One of my most memorable early experiences as a DevOps/CI engineer on the dev team was the Release Day.

Essentially the team must do the release by a deadline. The closer they are to it, the harder it gets, they try to make it, put a lot of effort into a final sprint to the goal...

And hooray!, by the end of the day, just about an hour past the 18:00, they made it, and the QA folks sign off the release.

The team celebrates the successful release, and opens an actual whiskey bottle..

1/2

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Mar 13, 2026
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

Local farmer market for artisanal IT goods, when?

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Nov 25, 2025
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

How I became a Fedora Contributor:

I was a Fedora user for some years, we had a local user group where we talked about Linux and so on.

And one day I went to the Linux Tag in Berlin. There were many project booths, including Fedora.

So I came to the booth and said "hi, I am a Fedora user, can I get stickers for my LUG?"

And one of the folks said - want to join us at the booth and help here?

I said "of course!" and went on the other side of the table. And this is how it all started :)

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Aug 24, 2025
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @tris@chaos.social
@tris@chaos.social Jokes aside, 1) The purpose of the distribution, among other things, is to be able to sustain the loss of (some of the) upstream. Sometimes by replacing it with the alternative, sometimes by making it possible for others to pick it up, sometimes at least by communicating the change to all impacted. 2) Distribution ISO image in the closet is what you have left once the "digital (cloud) infrastructure" collapses. And it is the thing which you will use to rebuild the rest of it. :)
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Aug 24, 2025
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

My take on the modern classics

https://xkcd.com/2347/

Dependency
xkcd

Dependency

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Aug 16, 2025
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social

Somehow our #Fedora booth also works as #Forgejo booth today, but I am not complaining.

There is no better time than now to aim for federated self-hosted Git forges.

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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @bookwar@floss.social · Apr 30, 2025
Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora:
@bookwar@floss.social

* CI/Devops/Infra Engineer, worked on RHEL & CentOS Stream * Product Owner of Anaconda installer and Cockpit teams in Red Hat * Fedora Ambassador, FESCo and Fedora Council member * PhD in Geometry and Topology * she/her Matrix: @bookwar:fedora.im I use this account for FOSS debates. For more personal stuff see @bookwar Feel free to follow one or the other, both or none. -- I am not a native speaker, and I appreciate private notes correcting my English or German.

floss.social
Replying to @osuosl@fosstodon.org
@osuosl@fosstodon.org Btw, the field for a phone number is completely broken for international contributors. Though I have no idea why you might need a phone number for accepting a donation.
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