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 #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.

We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 11 September – 15 September 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

• MDAPI v3.1.3 is now deployed to the production environment
• Endpoints for entity UPDATE are now reworked to meet REST API standards in Fedora Badges
• Fedora messaging migrated to Poetry
• Resolved 500 for various infra services

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• Migrate internal CI SMTP relay host
• Migrate remaining VMs from c7 hypervisors
• Decommission planet.centos.org
• Migrate feeds.centos.org
• Archive wiki.centos.org (read-only)

Release Engineering

• F39 beta rc-1.1 is available for 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

• Updated EPEL documentation to take into account the issues.redhat.com adoption on CentOS for CRB requests.
• Added python extras subpackages to python-gunicorn in rawhide
• Updated python-gunicorn in epel9 and added python extras subpackages
• Updated centpkg across epel8, epel9, and Fedora
• Added perl-EV to EPEL 9
• Fix missing dependency for python-httpx in EPEL 8
• EPEL Survey 2023 is available and should stay available now

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

• Looking for feedback for F39 beta wallpaper

Matrix Native Zodbot

Goal of this initiative

With ongoing stability issues with the Matrix <-> IRC bridge and many contributors switching over to Matrix, zodbot has become increasingly unreliable. The bridge is currently shut off completely. This initiative will provide a future proof solution and allow us to conduct meetings without wasting time troubleshooting the bridge and zodbot.

Updates

• Ticket tracker found here.
• Zodbot is now in production
• Meetbot is in staging & being tested in some meetings this week