Some new sysadmin-mainers

[Kevin Fenzi]

I'm happy to announce that We have approved some new members in our
sysadmin-main group:

Akashdeep Dhar 
Lenka Segura

The sysadmin-main group is the group which has 'root' access to
the infrastructure. With only a few exceptions, they have access
to everything.

People are added to this group after being nominated by an existing
member and approved by consensus. This nomination usually takes place
after the person has been around in the community for quite some time
doing good work in general and also have completed some larger
'project' in fedora infrastructure showing that they can manage
a complex deployment.

Akash has been working on Fedora for many years in many places.
He took over maintaining mdapi and did a complete re-write to
modernize it. He wrote the firmitas cert notification system we
use to notify/track 3rd parties that need to update certificates.
He has done a ton of work all over our application stack.

Lenka has done a ton of development over the years accross our
applications. She's fixed/written a lot of toddler changes to
process things. Most recently she has been working on the forge
rollout, getting things building in konflux and deployed as well
as setting up CI for projects there.

I'd like to also list the other sysadmin-main members in case they
can assist with anything in Fedora infrastructure:
    
abompard
adamwill
carlwgeorge
darknao
dkirwan
gwmngilfen
humaton
james
jnsamyak
kevin
mizdebsk
nb
nphilipp
praiskup
ryanlerch
zlopez

They have proved their dedication, trustworthiness, and ability.

Congrats!

kevin

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 11:51:22AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi via infrastructure wrote:
> I'm happy to announce that We have approved some new members in our
> sysadmin-main group:
>
> Akashdeep Dhar 
> Lenka Segura
>
> The sysadmin-main group is the group which has 'root' access to
> the infrastructure. With only a few exceptions, they have access
> to everything.
>
> People are added to this group after being nominated by an existing
> member and approved by consensus. This nomination usually takes place
> after the person has been around in the community for quite some time
> doing good work in general and also have completed some larger
> 'project' in fedora infrastructure showing that they can manage
> a complex deployment.
>
> Akash has been working on Fedora for many years in many places.
> He took over maintaining mdapi and did a complete re-write to
> modernize it. He wrote the firmitas cert notification system we
> use to notify/track 3rd parties that need to update certificates.
> He has done a ton of work all over our application stack.
>
> Lenka has done a ton of development over the years accross our
> applications. She's fixed/written a lot of toddler changes to
> process things. Most recently she has been working on the forge
> rollout, getting things building in konflux and deployed as well
> as setting up CI for projects there.

Congratulations to both of you, this is a great recognition of your work and the
trust you've earned!

Don't break everything at once, and don't forget to do DB dumps before running
SQL queries on the production DB... ;-)

Pierre

[Michal Konecny]

Congratulations to you both. Well deserved!

On 6/8/26 20:51, Kevin Fenzi via infrastructure wrote:
> I'm happy to announce that We have approved some new members in our
> sysadmin-main group:
>
> Akashdeep Dhar 
> Lenka Segura
>
> The sysadmin-main group is the group which has 'root' access to
> the infrastructure. With only a few exceptions, they have access
> to everything.
>
> People are added to this group after being nominated by an existing
> member and approved by consensus. This nomination usually takes place
> after the person has been around in the community for quite some time
> doing good work in general and also have completed some larger
> 'project' in fedora infrastructure showing that they can manage
> a complex deployment.
>
> Akash has been working on Fedora for many years in many places.
> He took over maintaining mdapi and did a complete re-write to
> modernize it. He wrote the firmitas cert notification system we
> use to notify/track 3rd parties that need to update certificates.
> He has done a ton of work all over our application stack.
>
> Lenka has done a ton of development over the years accross our
> applications. She's fixed/written a lot of toddler changes to
> process things. Most recently she has been working on the forge
> rollout, getting things building in konflux and deployed as well
> as setting up CI for projects there.
>
> I'd like to also list the other sysadmin-main members in case they
> can assist with anything in Fedora infrastructure:
>
> abompard
> adamwill
> carlwgeorge
> darknao
> dkirwan
> gwmngilfen
> humaton
> james
> jnsamyak
> kevin
> mizdebsk
> nb
> nphilipp
> praiskup
> ryanlerch
> zlopez
>
> They have proved their dedication, trustworthiness, and ability.
>
> Congrats!
>
> kevin