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Week: 15 – 19 May 2023

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

• Update bodhi to 7.2.0
• Wiki upgraded in staging, soon in prod
• Fixed up Azure image builds
• Mass update/reboot cycle this week including builders/koji to f38 later today

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• Refresh RHEL deployment mirrors with 9.2/8.8 trees
• Fixed Driver Discs created for user space packages
• Convert signing process/machine from el7 to el9
• Enabling Sign testing repositories
• Working on images/spin releng process for SIGs
• Decommissioned https://bugs.centos.org

Release Engineering

• Fedora 36 is End Of Life
• Documentation updates
• Composing Fedora knowledge transfer in Brno
• Openh264 multilib composes underway

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

• Updated python-waitress in EPEL 8 to resolve five CVEs
• Submitted a backported fix for CVE-2015-7504 to qemu in EPEL 7
• Backported fix for CVE-2021-36369 to dropbear in EPEL 7, EPEL 8, and EPEL 9
• EPEL2RHEL automation reworded to avoid confusion

Community Design

Goal of this initiative

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

Updates

• The Podman.io website launched, and lots of bug fixes were pushed last week, and a few more for this week.
• Working with the Anaconda team to make usage more user-friendly.
• Closed/completed DEI logo
  • Blog post documenting the process: Concept Generation.
• Continuing the vectorization of Panda.
• Researching and experimenting with open-source audio editor LMMS for Fedora branding sounds for system boot actions.
• The F39 Wallpaper is going to be inspired by Florence Nightingale! Yippee 🥳

DNF mirrors-countme improvement

Goal of this initiative

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

Updates

• Work on code refactoring and simplification (exposing opaque arguments, sorting imports and constants, etc.)
• Finished the code, and opened a PR, for the issue “Delete data from intermediate db file”