Michel Lind
Michel Lind is co-chair of the new CentOS Proposed Updates SIG. He is a long-term Fedora contributor who more recently also contribute to EPEL and the Hyperscale SIG. In his day job, Michel is a Production Engineer on the Linux Userspace team at Meta, which is responsible for the CentOS Stream deployment on the production fleet.
Session
We propose a significant refactoring to the way the kernel is packaged. The goal is to address the current monolithic approach, which bundles tools and makes separate rebasing and iterative packaging improvements difficult. By "cutting the Gordian Knot," we aim to demonstrate a cleaner, more modular packaging structure that enhances maintainability, accelerates development cycles for bundled tools, and simplifies packaging evolution.
The talk will cover the problem space, the proposed solution architecture, the implementation process, and the expected benefits for the CentOS community and package maintainers.