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 matrix.

We provide you both an infographic and a 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 at the infographic below.

Week: 09 October – 13 October 2023

Read more: CPE Weekly update – Week 41 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

• epel7: fix epel7 latest release sync
• fedoraproject.org/releases.json – Release 37 is gone

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• Migration of machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9 is completed

Release Engineering

• Fedora 34 updates repo on archives.fedoraproject.org is incorrect

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

• Fixed CVE-2022-24761 for python-waitress in EPEL 9
• Updated pjproject in rawhide to resolve 26 CVEs
• Backported fixes for 23 CVEs to pjproject in EPEL 8
• Backported fix for CVE-2023-43641 (high-profile RCE) to EPEL 7, EPEL 8, and EPEL 9

Community Design

Goal of this initiative

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

Updates

• Dates and CfP are now open for Creative Freedom Summit 2024! 🎉
  • Discussion post here
• Podman Desktop Kubernetes UX Research in progress.
• Fedora Badges front-end mock-ups in progress.
• The questionnaire on the current interface closes tomorrow, Thursday, October 12th!
  • Discussion post here