Tomáš Hrčka
Software engineer by craft, product owner by necessity, working on Fedora Project infrastructure and services with the Community Linux Engineering team. Outside of work, I build questionable devices, automation for my smart homestead, and attempt to grow food more reliably than software.
Session
Fedora Project is undergoing significant infrastructure changes that affect everyone from distribution users to individual contributors - that is, migrating from Pagure to Forgejo as its primary Git forge for both source code and package sources. Our talk chronicles the journey from the early days of collective debating between GitLab and Forgejo with Fedora Council, through the ongoing migration of thousands of repositories with Fedora Infrastructure.
While the initiative began due to the need to move away from Pagure, it gradually evolved into one that also aimed at fixing the long-standing pain points faced with workflows. We got the opportunity to streamline the processes that made sense about a decade back, and have since then, slowly started getting in the way of contribution. This also allowed us to contribute back to the Forgejo upstream with the features that would end up benefiting all.
This workshop aims to progress along with the work that we have been up to so far with creating solutions for migrating projects from Fedora Pagure and Package Sources. Participants can take advantage of the learnings on building compatibility bridges, CI/CD workflow modernisation, granular permission models, existing toolchain integration and comprehensive documentation writing, while working on building the Fedora Forge platform.
Resources
- Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-moves-towards-forgejo-a-unified-decision/
- Announcing the Soft Launch of Fedora Forge - Fedora Community Blog https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/announcing-the-soft-launch-of-fedora-forge/
- Forging Fedora’s Future with Forgejo - Fedora Community Blog https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/forging-fedoras-future-with-forgejo/
- Git Forge Initiative - Fedora Council - Fedora Wiki https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Initiatives/Git_Forge_Initiative_2025
- Dist Git Move - Advanced Reconnaissance Crew - Read The Docs https://fedora-arc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dist-git-move/index.html
- Dist Git Comparison - Advanced Reconnaissance Crew - Read The Docs https://fedora-arc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dist-git-comparison/index.html