This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the CPE Team. Each quarter CPE Team together with CentOS and Fedora community representatives chooses initiatives that will be worked on in this quarter. The CPE Team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on chosen initiatives + day to day work that needs to be done.

This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.

Q3 2022 Infographics

Infra & Releng

About

The purpose of this sub-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.). This sub-team is also investigating possible initiatives. This is done by ARC (The Advance Reconnaissance Crew), which is formed from the Infra & Releng sub-team members based on the initiative that is being investigated.

Issue trackers

Documentation

Members of sub-team

  • Mark O’Brien (Team Lead) (mobrien)
  • Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
  • Fabian Arrotin (arrfab)
  • Pedro Moura (pshmoura)
  • Tomáš Hrčka (humaton)
  • Anton Medvedev (amedvede)
  • Michal Konečný (zlopez)
  • Akashdeep Dhar (t0xic0der)
  • Vipul Siddharth (siddhartvipul)

Closed tickets

  • CentOS Infrastructure – 112
  • Fedora Infrastructure – 150
  • Fedora RelEng – 185

Mini-initiatives finished

Other tasks finished

  • Mass update/reboots 
  • Mass rebuild for F37

ARC Investigations completed

CentOS Stream

About

This initiative is working on CentOS Stream/Emerging RHEL to make this new distribution a reality. The goal of this initiative is to maintain CentOS Stream and develop new features for it.

Status: In Progress

Issue trackers

Documentation

Application URLs

Members of sub-team

  • Brian Stinson (Team Lead) (bstinson)
  • Adam Samalik (asamalik)
  • James Antill (jantill)
  • Johnny Hughes
  • David Fan (dfan)
  • Stephen Gallagher (sgallagher)
  • Troy Dawson (tdawson)
  • Adam Saleh (asaleh)

FMN Replacement

About

FMN (FedMsg Notifications) is a project that allows people in our community to get notified when messages that interest them fire on the message bus, making the message bus more useful to people that are not directly developing or troubleshooting applications running in our infra.

The current solution has plenty of tech debt and this initiative will rewrite it from scratch addressing all the issues.

Status: In Progress

Issue trackers

Documentation

Application URLs

Members of sub-team

  • Aurelien Bompard (Team Lead) (abompard)
  • Ryan Lerch (rlerch)
  • Nils Philippsen (nils)
  • James Richardson (jrichardson)

CPE UX Collaboration

About

CPE UX team is working on Graphic Design, User Experience, and User Interface for Fedora.

Status: In Progress

Issue trackers

Members of sub-team

  • Jess Chitas
  • Emma Kidney
  • Gbenga Oti

EPEL

About

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 a build system, Bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager, and more.

Status: In Progress

Issue trackers

Documentation

Members of sub-team

  • Carl George (Team Lead) (carlwgeorge)
  • Diego Herrera

CPE Documentation

About

CPE has a dedicated sub-team working on the documentation in Fedora.

Status: In Progress

Issue trackers

Application URLs

Members of sub-team

  • Petr Bokoc (pbokoc)

Epilogue

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