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Week: 29 May – 02 June 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

• Deleted lots of spam
• Redirect to new Silverblue web page
• Removed arm.fedoraproject.org
• Fix ResultsDB pods get OOMKilled

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• Add queue status or processed tags about signing queue
• Decommission registry.centos.org
• Fixed stream build infra issue for s390x
• (related): planning the s390x outage (maintenance in Westford LAB)
• Fixed debuginfod not receiving stream 9 debug pkgs

Release Engineering

• Update SOP for Fedora EOL
• Add Sericea to ostree-base-containers
• Unretire toddler deployed on staging – in testing

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

• EPEL conversations while staffing the Fedora/CentOS booth at Summit
• Presented at Summit about the EPEL 10 plan
• Backport fix for CVE-2015-7504 to qemu in EPEL 7

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

• Creative Freedom Art Challenge “Create your open source Super Hero” launched.
  • Badge created.
  • Promoting on team’s Twitter and TikTok.
  • Prepping for talk at F38 Release Party: Creative Freedom Summit Retrospective.

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

• Improve test coverage (ongoing)
• Look more into generating unique IP statistics (ongoing)
• Fix performance issue when creating raw DB for the first time
• Remove flaky preprocessing step which didn’t help performance as expected