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Week: 01 May – 05 May 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
Docs

Update

Fedora Infra

• Fix the deployment of release-monitoring.org
• Fas2Discourse bridge finished, groups are now synced between FAS and discussions.fedoraproject.org
• Fixed koji issue allowing official builds from forks. ;(
• Upgraded a number of Fedora instances to f38

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• Fixed cico-workspace Jenkins nodes broke after maintenance
• Decommission sponsored infra node
• Fixed IPv6 only networks couldn’t reach CentOS infrastructure
• Update CentOS Stream 9 IPs and URLs
• Reimport and update epel packages for rhel8 and rhel9 build targets
• CBS Issue. EPEL has not updated since March 19
• Upgrade CentOS CI Openshift to 4.12

Release Engineering

• Sync staging branch
• Staging buildvms and koji updated to Fedora 38

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

• Update tinyproxy to a new version in EPEL 7 to fix CVE-2012-3505 and CVE-2017-11747
• Added fedora-messaging to EPEL 9 to unblock adding noggin
• Created EPEL 10 presentation for Red Hat Summit Community Central

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

• TikToks:
  • Dancing dog meme
  • Embarrassing 
• Vectorization of Fedora Mascots underway for new Fedora brand-book website. Beefy to be completed by the end of the day
• DEI logo in progress

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

• Boilerplate in place, “cleaned the kitchen”
  • Use poetry instead of setuptools
  • CI workflows set up, running unit tests and coding style checks
  • Installed Renovate for regular updates of dependencies
• Familiarize with the code base (in progress)
• Cleaning of intermediary data: no need to keep out of date preprocessed data around (in progress)