Contributing to Minimization

Help us make sure we work on stuff that’s relevant to people. Both Fedora users and others who might become Fedora users. Talk to people at events, online forums, or anywhere, really. Ask them on how they run stuff, what pain points they experience, or what would they like to see.

Look at the use cases and problems we’ve collected and see if there are ways to minimize them by optimizing the packaging. That might include cutting off unnecessary dependencies, switching common dependencies to a single implementation, or even proposing policy changes about packaging.

Many changes go beyond Fedora. Are there any potential code changes that could help us? Or anything that requires coordination upstream? Reach out to upstream communities, offer help, build connections with the members, and help make bigger changes.

Ask our maintainers and developers if there’s anything in their minimization-related workflows that could use some automation or a tool, and help develop that. That goes for both making things smaller, as well as keeping them small over time.

Look at other Linux distributions, repositories, container images, and other solutions, and compare them with Fedora. Anything they do differently? Maybe even better? What could we experiment with and learn about?

Being visible helps us get more feedback, more contributors, and to do a better overall progress. Write blog posts about cool things that are happening, about interesting problems we’re solving, or about examples of using Fedora in various use cases. Submit talks at events, write on social media, make videos, etc.