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: 15 April – 19 April 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
  • Update compose hosts to get latest pungi release (4.6.0)
  • Deploy new sign hardware/software
  • logrotate not working on proxy31
  • Commits don’t end up on the scm-commits list
• Done:
  • Migrated zabbix01 prod to vmhost: vmhost-x86-05
  • AWS S3 bucket permissions for openQA cloud enablement
  • 503 Service unavailable for koji.fp.o
  • Secrets storage: Blockerbugs stg/api key
  • please archive security and security-team mailing lists
  • My nfs-utils repo fork cannot be accessed
  • discourse2fedmsg.fedoraproject.org webhook failing again
  • HOTFIX deployed to STAGING – MDAPI v3.1.6a1 on PyPI

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• In progress:
  • c8s/c7 EOL infrastructure planning
  • Convert our ansible hosts to RHEL and ansible-core new version
• Done:
  • rebalance ppc64le kojid workload
  • decommission two sponsored machine, used for testing
  • Duffy seems to be inaccessible from CentOS CI OCP #3
  • New Build Targets and Tags for the Kmods SIG

Release Engineering

• In progress:
  • Packages that fail to build SRPM are not reported during the mass rebuild bugzillas
  • Silverblue aarch64 installer image compose always fails on F38 and Rawhide
  • Sync RCs to alt/stg dl.fp.o
  • 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
  • Emit fedmsg when candidate composes are synced to stage
  • Publish “latest” tag to quay.io/fedora/fedora
  • Use an automated script to control checksums of compose images
  • Create an ansible playbook to do the mass-branching
  • Package retirements are broken in rawhide
  • Implement checks on package retirements
• Done:
  • adjust torrent_hashes.py to non bittorrent world
  • Repo request failed for rpms/golang-github-jackc-pgx5
  • Incomplete dist-git repo creation due to toddler crash: rpms/rust-async_zip
  • Create Fedora 40 Final candidates

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

• Texas Linux Fest (TXLF) was held from 12-13 April
  • Carl gave talk on the state of EPEL
  • Also manned the EPEL and Fedora booth
• EPEL docs are being reworked to include onboarding processes
  • Also including an overall cleanup, better UI/UX

Community Design

CPE has few members that are working as part of Community Design Team. This team is working on anything related to design in Fedora Community.

Updates

• F40 Wallpaper
• BootC logo complete #158
• Working with contributors for design assets for Fedora Week of Diversity and Fedora Mentor Summit

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