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Infra & RelEng Update – Week 12 2024

March 22, 2024 / / 0 Comments

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

We provide you with both infographic and 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 below the infographic.

Week: 18 March – 22 March 2024

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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

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

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

  • EPEL community engagement at CentOS booth at SCALE
  • Provided overview of EPEL during CentOS Classroom session at SCALE

List of new releases of apps maintained by CPE

Minor update of Fedora Messaging from 3.4.1 to 3.5.0 on 2024-03-20: https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedora-messaging/releases/tag/v3.5.0

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

Infra & RelEng Update – Week 8 2024

February 23, 2024 / / 0 Comments

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

We provide you with both an infographic and a text version of the weekly report. If you 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: 19 February – 23 February 2024

Read more: Infra & RelEng Update – Week 8 2024
I&R infographic

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

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

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 and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

Matrix Native Zodbot

With ongoing stability issues with the Matrix <-> IRC bridge and many contributors switching over to Matrix, zodbot has become increasingly unreliable. The bridge is currently shut off completely. This initiative will provide a future proof solution and allow us to conduct meetings without wasting time troubleshooting the bridge and zodbot.

Updates

  • This initiative is now finished as the Zodbot is already running in Matrix for a few months and most of the initial issues were resolved

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

Infra & RelEng Update – Week 5 2024

February 2, 2024 / / 0 Comments

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for 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 below the infographic.

Week: 29 January – 02 February 2024

Read more: Infra & RelEng Update – Week 5 2024
I&R infographic

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

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

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 and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

  • Packaging workshop at Centos Connect

List of new releases of apps maintained by CPE

  • Minor update of Anitya from 1.8.1 to 1.9.0 on 2024-01-30: https://github.com/fedora-infra/anitya/releases/tag/1.9.0

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

Infra & RelEng Update – Week 49 2023

December 8, 2023 / / Comments Off on Infra & RelEng Update – Week 49 2023

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

We provide you both infographic and 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 below the infographic.

Week: 04 December – 08 December 2023

Read more: Infra & RelEng Update – Week 49 2023

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

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.).
Planning board

Fedora Infra

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

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 and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

Matrix Native Zodbot

With ongoing stability issues with the Matrix <-> IRC bridge and many contributors switching over to Matrix, zodbot has become increasingly unreliable. The bridge is currently shut off completely. This initiative will provide a future proof solution and allow us to conduct meetings without wasting time troubleshooting the bridge and zodbot.

Updates

ARC Investigations

The ARC (which is a subset of the CPE team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on.

Updates

  • Dist-Git decoupling & ecosystem mapping
    • Fedora Packagers interactions with dist-git added

List of new releases of apps maintained by CPE


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

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CPE Weekly Update – Week 43 2023

October 27, 2023 / / Comments Off on CPE Weekly Update – Week 43 2023

This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on matrix.

We provide you both infographic and 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 below the infographic.

Week: 23 October – 27 October 2023

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CPE Weekly update – Week 41 2023

October 13, 2023 / / Comments Off on CPE Weekly update – Week 41 2023

This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on matrix.

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 below.

Week: 09 October – 13 October 2023

Read more: CPE Weekly update – Week 41 2023

CPE infographic

Highlights of the week

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

Goal of this Initiative

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.).
The ARC (which is a subset of the team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on.
Planning board
Docs

Update

Fedora Infra

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

EPEL

Goal of this initiative

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 and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager, and more.

Updates

Community Design

Goal of this initiative

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

Updates

  • Dates and CfP are now open for Creative Freedom Summit 2024! 🎉
  • Podman Desktop Kubernetes UX Research in progress.
  • Fedora Badges front-end mock-ups in progress.
  • The questionnaire on the current interface closes tomorrow, Thursday, October 12th!
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CPE Weekly update – Week 30 2023

July 28, 2023 / / Comments Off on CPE Weekly update – Week 30 2023

This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.

We provide you both infographic and 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 below the infographic.

Week: 24 July – 28 July 2023

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CPE Weekly update – Week 21 2023

May 26, 2023 / / Comments Off on CPE Weekly update – Week 21 2023

This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.

We provide you both infographics and 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 below the infographic.

Week: 22 May – 26 May 2023

Read more: CPE Weekly update – Week 21 2023

Highlights of the week

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

Goal of this Initiative

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.).
The ARC (which is a subset of the team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on.
[Planning board](Link to planning board)
Docs

Update

Fedora Infra

  • Move old FMN to F38
  • Server updates/reboots
  • New koji theme deployed on koji.stg.fedoraproject.org
  • Bunch of machines upgraded to f38: all builders, koji hubs, proxies, kojipkgs
  • Mass update/reboot cycle over all machines completed. Some stability issues with rhel8.8 kernel still being investigated. (db01 outage due to that)
  • Setup smtp auth for flock call for papers (and copr machines too)
  • Retired old old space in rdu2 to be replaced by an internal vm.

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

EPEL

Goal of this initiative

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 and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more.

Updates

  • Carl presenting “RPM Workshop” at Red Hat Summit.
  • Started coordination for “State of EPEL” presentation for the Release Party
  • Working on EPEL docs overhaul

Community Design

Goal of this initiative

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

  • Design Docs transfer from Wiki underway.
  • Creative Freedom Summit
    • Art Challenge organization in progress.
    • Preparing talk for release party.
  • TikTok:

DNF mirrors-countme improvement

Goal of this initiative

This initiative is working on enhancing current DNF mirrors-countme script, which is used to provide statistics about number of Fedora installations on machines. This script has few bottlenecks that will be addressed as part of this intiative.
ARC investigation

Updates

  • Start poking at individual IP statistics
  • More cleanup work (remove unused code, split up code along topical boundaries, make function signatures less opaque)
  • Resume work on test coverage
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CPE Weekly update – Week 10 2023

March 10, 2023 / / Comments Off on CPE Weekly update – Week 10 2023

This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.

We provide you both infographics and 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 below the infographic.

Week: 06 March – 10 March 2023

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CPE Weekly Update – Week 48 2022

December 5, 2022 / / Comments Off on CPE Weekly Update – Week 48 2022

This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.

We provide you both infographics and 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 below the infographic.

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