This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team as the CPE initiatives are in most cases tied to I&R work.

We provide you both an infographic and a text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in-depth details look at the infographic.

Week: March 11-15, 2024

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

The purpose of this team is to take care of day-to-day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces, etc.).
List of planned/in-progress issues

Fedora Infra

• In progress:
  • rhel7 EOL
  • Migration of registry.fedoraproject.org to quay.io
  • add monitoring for dnf countme
  • Replace Nagios with Zabbix in Fedora Infrastructure
  • notifications do not notify
  • DNF countme minor changes post migration
  • vmhost-x86-copr02 hardware issues
  • PDC retirement
  • Move from iptables to firewalld
  • fedoraplanet.org: Upgrade Venus to Pluto
  • Move mailman to newer release of Fedora or CentOS
  • Setup RISC-V builder(s) VM in Fedora Infrastructure
  • IPv6 for libravatar.org
  • Update compose hosts to get latest pungi release (4.6.0)
  • Deploy new sign hardware/software
  • logrotate not working on proxy31
• Done:
  • fedorapeople.org ssh is slow and cgit pages return garbage
  • centos-cert is unable to retrieve TLS certificate
  • Update aarch64-test01 and aarch64-test02 for mock builds
  • Inactive provenpackagers for the F40 development cycle
  • Fedora Copr Outage – Updating to a March 2024 Version

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• In progress:
  • major hardware issue impacting crucial services
  • Migrate aarch64 workload on new Ampere/snow machines
  • Migrate/decommission lists.centos.org
  • Stray sessions/nodes in CentOS CI
• Done:
  • Dell server hardware issue reported

Release Engineering

• In progress:
  • Fedora 40 Beta freeze
  • Fedora 40 Beta RC 1.3
  • Packages that fail to build SRPM are not reported during the mass rebuild bugzillas
  • Collect Atomic Desktop artifacts under single directory
  • Silverblue aarch64 installer image compose always fails on F38 and Rawhide
  • Sync RCs to alt/stg dl.fp.o
  • Silverblue aarch64 installer image compose always fails on F38 and Rawhide
  • Unable to set bootstrap macro for f41 sidetags
  • i686 builders need to use 32-bit inode numbers
  • Fixes for release-candidate.sh in pungi-fedora
  • When orphaning packages, keep the original owner as co-maintainer
  • Adding zabbix01 to the fedora infra vpn.
• Done:
  • Create detached signatures for the ignition 2.18.0 release
  • Fedora 39 CHECKSUM file doesn’t have any GPG data
  • [STG Koji] no builders are picking up osbuildImage jobs
  • Migrate the aarch64 minimal image to osbuild

CPE Initiatives

EPEL

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL) and Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

• Work on enabling fedpkg to work with EPEL10 changes.

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on matrix.