https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/ee0c3e81-bbe4-4af3-9612-6a548d313ef2 Fedora has a job whose entire purpose is the health of the community around the distribution, and this month a new person took it over. So we got both of them on at once. Justin Wheeler has held the Fedora Community Architect seat since 2022 and is moving into a new role as AI Alignment Community Architect. Shaun McCance, who stays on as CentOS Community Architect, is stepping into the Fedora role alongside it. Noah is out this episode, so Eric hosts solo. We get into what the job actually is, where it came from, what Justin is handing over, what Shaun brings from the CentOS side, and why running one set of pipes instead of two is not the same thing as merging the projects. 🎬 New to Fedora? Get Started Here: https://fedoraproject.org/ 🎙️ Follow the Fedora Podcast: https://podcast.fedoraproject.org 💬 Join the Conversation: https://matrix.to/#/#podcast:fedoraproject.org 🌐 Become Part of the Fedora community: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/ 📱 Connect with Eric "the IT Guy" Hendricks: https://linktr.ee/itguyeric 📱 Connect with Noah Chelliah (Kernellinux): https://noahc.us/about 🔗 Episode Resources The announcement on Fedora Magazine: https://fedoramagazine.org/shaun-mccance-next-fedora-community-architect/, Fedora Community Architect role charter: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/fca/, Fedora Podcast planning on Fedora Forge: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/podcast/, CentOS Connect: https://www.centos.org/events/connect/, Flock to Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/flock/2026/, Shaun McCance on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunmccance/, Justin Wheeler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwwheel/, Justin Wheeler's blog: https://jwheel.org/, Companion post: https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep60-changing-of-the-guard/, Listen to the audio: https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/60, 🔖 Chapters 00:00 Cold open and welcome 01:12 Meet Justin Wheeler 05:15 Meet Shaun McCance 08:17 What the Fedora Community Architect does 13:47 A week in the life 17:37 Justin's move to AI alignment 25:53 Shaun on the CentOS side 32:06 Cutting the duplicate work 37:34 First priorities, starting with Flock 42:06 Events: DevConf, Texas Linux Fest, CentOS Connect 45:02 Closing thoughts 49:27 A specific ask: the podcast needs a producer Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:37:18 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.linuxrocks.online https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/ee0c3e81-bbe4-4af3-9612-6a548d313ef2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.