= Fedora Release Engineering

This page contains information about the Fedora Release Engineering
team.

[#releng-contact-info]
== Contact Information

* matrix: link:https://matrix.to/#/#releng:fedoraproject.org[Matrix Fedora releng channel]
* Mailing List: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/rel-eng[rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org]
* Issue tracker: https://pagure.io/releng/issues[Fedora Releng Pagure Tickets]

If you want the to get something done (e.g. moving packages to
buildroots or into frozen compositions) by the ReleaseEngineering Team,
please create a ticket in the issue tracker mentioned above. Please
enter your FAS-username or e-mail address in the respective textbox, to
make sure the team can contact you.

== Team Composition
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:kevin[Kevin Fenzi (nirik)]
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:sharkcz[Dan Horák (sharkcz)](secondary arches)
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:pbrobinson[Peter Robinson(pbrobinson)]
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:maxamillion[Adam Miller(maxamillion)]
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:humaton[Tomas Hrcka(humaton)]
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jnsamyak[Samyak Jain (jnsamyak)]

Release Team members are approved by FESCo. However, FESCo has delegated
this power to the Release Team itself. If you want to join the team,
please read <<join-releng>>.

== Fedora Release Engineering Leadership

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jnsamyak[Samyak Jain (jnsamyak)]

Leadership is currently appointed by FESCo with input from the current
release team.

== Things we Do

* Create official Fedora releases.
** Fedora Products;;
*** Cloud
*** Server
*** Workstation
** Fedora Spins
* Report progress towards release from
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Branched[branched] creation on.
* Give reports to FESCo on changes to processes.
* If something is known to be controversial, we let FESCo know before
implementing otherwise implementation generally happens concurrently to
reporting.
* Set policy on freeze management
* Administrate the build system(s)
* Remove unmaintained packages from Fedora
* Push updated packages
* write and maintain tools to compose and push Fedora

[#join-releng]
== Joining Release Engineering

Much of rel-eng's communication is via matrix. One of the best ways to
initially get involved is to attend one of the meetings and say that
you're interested in doing some work during the open floor at the end of
the meeting. If you can't make the meeting times, you can also ping one
of us on matrix or sign up for the
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/rel-eng[mailing list].

Since release engineering needs special access to systems essential to
Fedora people new to rel-eng will usually get access a little bit at a
time. Typically people won't immediately be granted the ability to sign
packages and push updates for example. A couple of tasks you could start
out with are troubleshooting why builds are failing (and if rel-eng
could take actions to fix it) as the requests are submitted to pagure or
help with scripts for various rel-eng tasks.

There are also a number of tools that Fedora Release Engineering uses
and relies upon, working on improving these upstream to fascilitate with
new things that the Fedora Project is aiming to deliver is also a great
way to get involved with Fedora Rel-Eng.

== How we do it

See our xref:releng_misc_guide:index.adoc[Releng Miscellaneous guide]
and xref:release_guide:release_process.adoc[Release process] for details on how we
do the things we do.

Most discussions regarding release engineering will happen either in
link:https://matrix.to/#/#releng:fedoraproject.org[Matrix Fedora releng channel]
or on the releng mailing list.
For requests, please consult the <<releng-contact-info>>

== Meetings

Rel-eng holds regular meetings every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC in
link:https://matrix.to/#/#meeting-3:fedoraproject.org[Fedora Meeting 3 channel on matrix].

link:https://pagure.io/releng/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting[Meeting
agendas] are created from open tickets in pagure that contain the
meeting keyword.

=== Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes are available at the
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/[Meetbot page].

There are also
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings[historical
Meeting Minutes for 2007-04-16 to 2009-05-04].

== Current activities

See our https://pagure.io/releng/issues[ticket queue] for the things we
are currently working.

See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases[Releases] for information
about Fedora releases, including schedules.

== Freeze Policies

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes[Milestone (Alpha,
Beta, Final) freezes]
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_String_Freeze_Policy[String
Freeze Policy] (Same time as Alpha Freeze)
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy[Change freeze policy]
(that's 'Change' as in 'feature')
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy[Updates Policy] (not
technically a freeze, but of interest)