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 the #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.

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Week: 12 June – 16 June 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

Updates

Fedora Infra

• Enable src.fedoraproject.org:/forks/ in allowed SCMs for koji
• Create monitoring tool for rabbitmq certificates
• Integrate FAS login with DevConf/Flock CFP system

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• Network upgrades in IAD2 (impacting CentOS services)
• Reinstall IAD2 infra with el9
• CentOS ISA SIG documentation setup
• CentOS Automotive SIG IAM role
• CentOS Stream Release Overhaul

Release Engineering

• Business as usual

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

• Working on resolving old EPEL bodhi submissions
• Resolved CVE-2021-43859, CVE-2022-40151, and CVE-2022-41966 in xstream in EPEL 8
• Meet with Grokket team to discuss gathering metrics of customer EPEL usage

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

• 💫 Creative Freedom Art Challenge “Create your open source Super Hero”! 💫
• Assets for Flock being organized
• Work started on Fedora 38 launch party videos. Intro and outro animations, thumbnails, and final edits for 14 sessions.
• CPE trading cards are in the process of being updated
• Upcoming talks at CommCon (Tue 20 June) and Penpot Fest (Thu 29 June)
• Podman designs! Animated seals, t-shirt, Kubernetes dashboard!
• Fedora-specific boot up and boot down sounds in progress
• Badges front-end UI research in progress
• Design ticket template for Fedora Design and CDT issues

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

• Move script code into Python package to make it testable
• Finish trimming out-of-date data in intermediary database file
• Improve test coverage (ongoing)
• Implement statistics for individual IP addresses (ongoing)