This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. 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: 3rd Mar – 7th Mar 2025

Infrastructure & Release Engineering
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.).
List of planned/in-progress issues
Fedora Infra
- In progress:
- re-add datagrepper nagios checks (and add to zabbix?)
- Fix logrotate on kojipkgs01/02
- 2025 datacenter move (IAD2->RDU3)
- [CommOps] Open Data Hub on Communishift
- retire easyfix
- Add StartInstanceRefresh permission for fedora-ci-testing-farm user in AWS
- Deploy Element Server Suite operator in staging
- Pagure returns error 500 trying to open a PR on https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-setuptools-gettext
- a real domain name for konflux
- Create a POC integration in Konflux for fedora-infra/webhook-to-fedora-messaging
- maubot-meetings bot multi line paste is cut
- setup ipa02.stg and ipa03.stg again as replicas
- Manage our new testing.farm domain via AWS Route53
- Add support for creating RDS instances under `testing-farm-` prefix
- Move OpenShift apps from deploymentconfig to deployment
- The process to update the OpenH264 repos is broken
- httpd 2.4.61 causing issue in fedora infrastructure
- Support allocation dedicated hosts for Testing Farm
- EPEL minor version archive repos in MirrorManager
- vmhost-x86-copr01.rdu-cc.fedoraproject.org DOWN
- Add yselkowitz to list to notify when ELN builds fail
- Cleaning script for communishift
- Setup RISC-V builder(s) VM in Fedora Infrastructure
- Move from iptables to firewalld
- Help me move my discourse bots to production?
- rhel9 adoption
- Replace Nagios with Zabbix in Fedora Infrastructure
- Migration of registry.fedoraproject.org to quay.io
- Done:
- Automatically invited ChanServ channel is unjoinable.
- “Fatal Error” when uploading image.
- FAS account: Accept the user agreement with registration
- [koji, s390x] GenericError: Downloaded file … doesn’t match expected size (… vs …)
- s390x Koji builders: Librepo error: Cannot download toplink/packages/librsvg2/2.59.2/1.fc41/s390x/librsvg2-2.59.2-1.fc41.s390x.rpm: All mirrors were tried
- ca.mirrors.cicku.me seems to be outdated, should be taken out of the mirror list
- Request for Asahi calendar owned by asahi-sig
- Redeploy WCIDFF to production after the changes in source
- Please provide commit acces for nikromen to fedora-infra/ansible
- Create a token for anaconda team for the purpose of automated test result reporting to Wiki
- RISC-V Koji Administration
- Create CentOS calendar
CentOS Infra including CentOS CI
- In progress:
- Increase Storage capacity for koji built artifacts
- Testing Jenkins – c10s x86_64 metal doesn’t provision
- Release Improvements
- [spike] : investigating needed deps (poetry) for duffy on el9
- Onboarding new infra SIG member
- Migrate main backup storage pool to different hardware
- [spike] : investigating options/alternatives for the upcoming DC move
- Done:
- grant sf-service-account namespace-scoped access to monitoring.coreos.com API on cloud-softwarefactory
- Adding Theory7.net Centos-stream mirror
- http 503 when accessing https://cloud.centos.org/centos/9-stream/x86_64/images
- Scope operator installations in cloud-softwarefactory namespace
- Move cloud.centos.org to its new CDN setup
- Redesign mirror network due to Equinix stopping OSS sponsorship
- New NL/Amsterdam Mirror – low latency!
Release Engineering
- In progress:
- Stalled epel package request: python-hamcrest
- Please send openh264-2.6.0 to Cisco
- Unretire datanommer-commands and python-datanommer-models packages
- Create `image-builder-build` koji build group
- Please untag tinysparql-3.8~rc-3.fc42
- 300+ F42FTBFS bugzillas block the F41FTBFS tracker
- Packages that have not been rebuilt in a while or ever
- Fedora 42 Mass Rebuild Tracker
- Send compose reports to a to-be-created separate ML
- .sqlite metadata missing in f41-updates and f41-updates-testing repositories
- Could we have fedoraproject-updates-archive.fedoraproject.org for Rawhide?
- Investigate and untag packages that failed gating but were merged in via mass rebuild
- a few mass rebuild bumps failed to git push – script should retry or error
- Package retirements are broken in rawhide
- Implement checks on package retirements
- Untag containers-common-0.57.1-6.fc40
- orphan-all-packages.py should remove bugzilla_contact entries from fedora-scm-requests as well
- Packages that fail to build SRPM are not reported during the mass rebuild bugzillas
- When orphaning packages, keep the original owner as co-maintainer
- Create an ansible playbook to do the mass-branching
- RFE: Integration of Anitya to Packager Workflow
- Fix tokens for ftbfs_weekly_reminder. script
- Update bootloader components assignee to “Bootloader Engineering Team”for Improved collaboration
- Done:
- Stalled EPEL package: xclip
- New repo stuck in inconsistent state: rpms/rust-tree-sitter-julia
- kiwi-10.2.11-1.fc43 isn’t used in Rawhide/f43 image builds
- Allow macro _with_bootstrap for f43 sidetags
- Deletion of accidently created branch
- Stalled EPEL package: python-qt5
- Stalled EPEL package: python-msgpack
- Migrate to lastlog2
- Branch cleanup: please remove the ‘rawhi’ branch of rust-tree-sitter-bash
- F42 stable push requests
- Please update openh264 to 2.6.0 in rawhide and F42
- Please update `openh264`to 2.5.0 in F41
- please create epel10 based el10-openjdk tag
- Please send openh264-2.4.1-1.el10_0 to Cisco
- RFE: data store and/or messages and/or server for release cycle information
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