Hummingbird Special Interest Group

Hummingbird is a container-native, rolling-release variant targeting open source and cloud native builders who value things like CI/CD, near zero CVEs, minimal size, distroless images (distributions still matter!!!), etc. It ships a wide variaty of language runtimes, build toolchains, and distroless OCI container images built from Fedora sources via the Hummingbird factory pipeline. This SIG governs the Hummingbird work, as we work toward contribution into the Fedora project (over time).

Project Hummingbird was announced at Red Hat Summit 2026

SIG Responsibilities

Own the scope and content set for Hummingbird
Maintain the Hummingbird factory build pipeline and OCI image publishing
Coordinate ARK (Always-Ready Kernel) integration for the edition
Drive Fedora infrastructure work (ticket system, SIG, Forgejo, etc)
Work with Fedora packagers to resolve build and compose issues
Define upgrade and production guidance for Hummingbird users
Manage the relationship with Red Hat

Members

Valentin Rothberg (User:vrothberg)
Robert Sturla ([User:rsturla])
Harrison Ripps (User:nhr)
Stef Walter ([User:stefw])
Ben Breard ([User:mrguitar])
Scott McCarty (User:fatherlinux)

Communication

Chat

TBD, we're trying to establish initial interest and then build the resources to staff a synchronous channel

Project Tracking

Meetings

Every 4 weeks
First one starting on May 28th at 8AM ET
Fedora Calendar
Google Calendar

How to Join

Join the mailing list
Participate in SIG meetings
Contribute packages, container images, or documentation

How to Contribute

Test Hummingbird and report issues
Build or maintain Hummingbird container images in the

 GitLab repository

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