I was thinking along the lines of establishing a SW engineering base on Fedora, sort of in the same way that Fedora has a packaging base currently. As for my own personal goals, which also happen to help Fedora's packagers, I hope to reduce software complexity, in particular, when it comes to dependencies.
Again, I'm unsure if the SIG will catch on. I wasn't planning on having the SIG host content on Forge immediately. In the long term, if we have more SW engineers joining the Fedora community, it would greatly increase Fedora's position in the Linux community overall. Fedora will simply have far more say in what gets done within the SW industry overall, not just within its currently small packaging scope. Having a Forge would help to reign in *some* software engineers, who have become disillusioned with GitHub, and wish to contribute in some way to open source. I have reason to believe that the SW industry is in a dire spot, with lots of needs being unmet, both when it comes to individual consumers, as well as large corporations and industries. I also have reason to believe that AI hype has overshadowed these needs, and that it leaves them unaccounted for. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Friday, June 19th, 2026 at 12:07, Fabio Valentini <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM CS Sushi Man via devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I plan to start a new SW engineering SIG. I don't have a planned > > scope for this SIG, however, I do have a synopsis of what it will > > likely look like: > > > > - A place for SW engineers to share opinions and discuss SW > > practices (good or bad) > > - Detailed wiki > > - Extensive documentation of various programming languages on Forge > > - Large amount of focus placed on GPU programming, as well as CPU > > programming > > - Various software repositories made by the community on Forge > > One thing that isn't answered here - how would this SIG be related / > specific to Fedora? > Just going by your description, it sounds like it wouldn't be - and in > that case, it would probably not be appropriate to host its content on > forge.fedoraproject.org. > > Fabio > -- -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
