Heroes of Fedora Quality for Fedora 44
Fedora 44 is out, and in this post we’d like to highlight the top Fedora Quality contributors who helped us reach the finish line. Releasing Fedora is a shared effort, and Fedora wouldn’t be a high-quality distribution without its community. Every single person who helped us detect and resolve issues, or verify that things work as expected, deserves our gratitude, thank you!
If you haven’t participated yet in testing Fedora, perhaps you’d like to give it a try? We gladly welcome everyone. Please look at our Fedora Quality homepage.
Test cases validation 
Our release validation efforts consist of running lots of test cases on the upcoming Fedora release composes. Here’s an example of a Fedora 44 release candidate. We have lots of tables like these, see Fedora 44 test results. All test cases which are not automated yet (or which are intentionally manual) need to be verified by people.
Test period: Fedora 44 branch time – Fedora 44 Final release
Contributors: 19
Test cases executed: 1380
Unique referenced bugs: 20
| Name | Test cases executed | Referenced bugs1 |
|---|---|---|
| derekenz | 468 | 2365456 2438905 2444046 2448211 2456542 2458714 (6) |
| lruzicka | 132 | 2442593 2442988 2444078 2458907 (4) |
| geraldosimiao | 132 | 2444046 (1) |
| psklenar | 112 | |
| kparal | 106 | |
| nielsenb | 81 | 2442689 2448757 (2) |
| aggraxis | 70 | |
| jlinton | 58 | 2183626 2402621 2444775 2444776 2457333 2457336 (6) |
| robatino | 56 | |
| jcline | 36 | |
| abhis3k | 35 | |
| xariann | 20 | |
| osalbahr | 19 | |
| jgroman | 15 | |
| pboy | 15 | |
| ahmedalmeleh | 9 | |
| korora | 8 | |
| adamwill | 5 | 2448283 2453216 (2) |
| supakeen | 3 |
1 This is a list of bug reports referenced in test cases results. The bug itself may not be created by the same person.
Reporting bugs 
When a new problem is found, we rely on people reporting it. Not every problem can be fixed, but the better data we have, the better we can prioritize and focus on the most important ones. Especially serious bugs can be even proposed as release blockers.
Test period: Fedora 44 branch time – Fedora 44 Beta (2026-02-03 – 2026-03-10)
Contributors: 84
Bug reports submitted: 182
| Name | Bug reports submitted1 | Excess reports2 | Accepted blockers3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lukas Ruzicka | 20 | 9 (45%) | 1 |
| Petr Sklenar | 16 | 1 (6%) | 1 |
| Adam Williamson | 9 | 1 (11%) | 2 |
| Steven Hollingsworth | 9 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Steve Cossette | 7 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Kamil Páral | 6 | 1 (17%) | 0 |
| Mr. Beedell, Jared Richard William | 5 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Akira TAGOH | 4 | 1 (25%) | 0 |
| Jeremy Linton | 4 | 1 (25%) | 0 |
| lpavan at redhat.com | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Neal Gompa | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Adrian Vovk | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| gav at gavworld.co.uk | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Laurențiu Nicola | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Matt Fagnani | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Osama Albahrani | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Than Ngo | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| …and also 67 other reporters who created less than 3 reports each, but 76 reports combined! | |||
Test period: Fedora 44 Beta – Fedora 44 Final release (2026-03-10 – 2026-04-28)
Contributors: 252
Bug reports submitted: 426
| Name | Bug reports submitted1 | Excess reports2 | Accepted blockers3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davide Repetto | 18 | 1 (6%) | 0 |
| Petr Sklenar | 18 | 2 (11%) | 0 |
| Fabio Valentini | 12 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Kamil Páral | 11 | 5 (45%) | 1 |
| Adam Williamson | 10 | 0 (0%) | 3 |
| Ricardo Ramos | 7 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Lukas Ruzicka | 6 | 1 (17%) | 1 |
| Matt Fagnani | 6 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Calum Chisholm | 5 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| lray+redhatbugzilla at mailbox.org | 5 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Andrey Motoshkov | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Artem S. Tashkinov | 4 | 1 (25%) | 0 |
| Brian Morrison | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Chang Qian | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Derek Enz | 4 | 2 (50%) | 0 |
| Dominic | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| iltis at posteo.de | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Jan Macku | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Jeremy Nickurak | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| kxra at riseup.net | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Luke | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Mr. Beedell, Jared Richard William | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Steven Hollingsworth | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| tk2345_ at outlook.com | 3 | 0 (0%) | 1 |
| Alan Altmann | 3 | 1 (33%) | 0 |
| anotheruser | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Cristian Ciupitu | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Eugene Mah | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| Jonathan S. | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| speedlemma at gmail.com | 3 | 2 (67%) | 0 |
| Steve Cossette | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 |
| …and also 221 other reporters who created less than 3 reports each, but 252 reports combined! | |||
1 The total number of new bug reports (including “excess reports”). Reopened reports or reports with a changed version are not included, because it was not technically easy to retrieve those. This is one of the reasons why you shouldn’t take the numbers too seriously, but just as interesting and fun data.
2 Excess reports are those that were closed as NOTABUG, WONTFIX, WORKSFORME, CANTFIX or INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Excess reports are not necessarily a bad thing, but they make for interesting statistics. Close manual inspection is required to separate valuable excess reports from those which are less valuable.
3 This only includes reports that were created by that particular user and accepted as blockers afterwards. The user might have proposed other people’s reports as blockers, but this is not reflected in this number.
Testing proposed updates 
When software packages are updated in Fedora (bringing bug fixes and new features), they are not released to end users immediately. They first go to the updates-testing repository, where they undergo automated testing, and also await manual feedback from human testers. This feedback can be provided through Bodhi, either by using its web interface or CLI tools, see instructions. Alerting package maintainers by posting a negative feedback with a problem description can stop the update from reaching general audience and causing issues to all our users. Testing proposed updates is a simple, yet vital process for keeping Fedora releases of high quality during their whole lifecycle. It is used both for already stable and in-development Fedora releases.
Test period: Fedora 44 branch time – Fedora 44 Final release (2026-02-03 – 2026-04-28)
Contributors: 147
Updates commented1: 1428
| Name | Updates commented |
|---|---|
| Geraldo S. Simião Kutz (geraldosimiao) | 307 |
| Filipe Rosset (filiperosset) | 185 |
| Eugene Mah (imabug) | 98 |
| Derek Enz (derekenz) | 88 |
| anotheruser | 78 |
| bojan | 71 |
| Ian Laurie (nixuser) | 66 |
| Kamil Páral (kparal) | 37 |
| Neal Gompa (ngompa) | 35 |
| Fabio Valentini (decathorpe) | 33 |
| František Zatloukal (frantisekz) | 31 |
| Xariann Cat (xariann) | 25 |
| ramot | 24 |
| Cristian Ciupitu (ciupicri) | 23 |
| Ankur Sinha (ankursinha) | 20 |
| Adam Williamson (adamwill) | 17 |
| Alex Gurenko (agurenko) | 15 |
| Benjamin Beasley (music) | 14 |
| Lukáš Růžička (lruzicka) | 11 |
| Simon de Vlieger (supakeen) | 9 |
| Michel Lind (salimma) | 9 |
| brett h (bretth) | 9 |
| Dennis Gilmore (ausil) | 8 |
| Paul Whalen (pwhalen) | 7 |
| Wasser Mai (wasser19641) | 7 |
| Peter Robinson (pbrobinson) | 7 |
| Lukas Slebodnik (lslebodn) | 7 |
| Colin Thomson (g6avk) | 6 |
| Juha Uotila (inffy) | 6 |
| Steve Cossette (farchord) | 5 |
| markec | 5 |
| …and also 116 other testers who commented on less than 5 updates each, but 165 comments combined! | |
1 If a person provides multiple comments to a single update, it is considered as a single comment. Karma value is not taken into account.
Test days participation 
Test Days are events which are partly focused on testing Changes planned for an upcoming Fedora release, but they also regularly test important areas of the Fedora distribution, like upgrades, internationalization, graphical drivers, desktop environments, kernel updates, and others. The upcoming and past events can be seen in our Testdays app.
Test period: Fedora 44 branch time – Fedora 44 Final release
Contributors: 98
Test cases executed: 698
| Name | Test cases executed |
|---|---|
| lpavan | 42 |
| mcrha | 36 |
| adriend | 34 |
| tagoh | 27 |
| pnemade | 23 |
| 16levels | 23 |
| lruzicka | 17 |
| stransky | 16 |
| michal odehnal | 16 |
| pschindl | 15 |
| jgrulich | 15 |
| alciregi | 15 |
| psklenar | 12 |
| dkricka | 12 |
| jpb21 | 12 |
| romangherta | 12 |
| royboy626 | 11 |
| twinkle28 | 11 |
| vhumpa | 11 |
| alangm1001 | 11 |
| pyadav | 10 |
| rduda | 10 |
| paolojr | 10 |
| dtunma | 10 |
| bittin | 9 |
| pauloheaven | 9 |
| jgroman | 8 |
| derekenz | 8 |
| gornikfan | 8 |
| tdawson | 8 |
| vsembiba | 8 |
| mkasik | 8 |
| clnetbox | 8 |
| mzink | 8 |
…and also 64 other testers who executed less than 8 updates each
We sincerely thank all contributors!
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Source: Kparal's Fedora Blog