This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team as the CPE initiatives are in most cases tied to I&R work.

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: 01 April – 05 April 2024

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:
  • rhel7 EOL
  • Migration of registry.fedoraproject.org to quay.io
  • add monitoring for dnf countme
  • Replace Nagios with Zabbix in Fedora Infrastructure
  • notifications do not notify
  • DNF countme minor changes post migration
  • vmhost-x86-copr02 hardware issues
  • PDC retirement
  • Move from iptables to firewalld
  • fedoraplanet.org: Upgrade Venus to Pluto
  • Move mailman to newer release of Fedora or CentOS
  • Setup RISC-V builder(s) VM in Fedora Infrastructure
  • Update compose hosts to get latest pungi release (4.6.0)
  • Deploy new sign hardware/software
  • logrotate not working on proxy31
  • Revise the webhook2fedoramessaging investigation
  • Commits don’t end up on the scm-commits list
  • AWS S3 bucket permissions for openQA cloud enablement
  • Fixing tests for MDAPI
• Done:
  • Adjust python3_fact.py for python 3.12.
  • RFR: XR SIG Resources
  • rhel7 – os-control01.[stg.]iad2.fedoraproject.org
  • Retire osbs clusters
  • Communishift namespace creation
  • rhel7 EOL – kerneltest
  • FAMNA: Nextcloud + Collabora Office
  • Deploy renewed mirrors.centos.org TLS certs on mirrormanager proxies

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• In progress:
  • Update to Koji 1.34 to allow building Draft Builds
  • Migrate lists.centos.org
  • Migrate CBS kojid aarch64 builders to refreshed infra
• Done:
  • Add AutoSD kernel-automotive-devel package in Automotive SIG buildroots
  • Deploy mailman3 stg instance 
  • Extras CentOS7 reposync error : docker-debuginfo-1.13.1-210.git7d71120.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

Release Engineering

• In progress:
  • Packages that fail to build SRPM are not reported during the mass rebuild bugzillas
  • Silverblue aarch64 installer image compose always fails on F38 and Rawhide
  • Sync RCs to alt/stg dl.fp.o
  • i686 builders need to use 32-bit inode numbers
  • Fixes for release-candidate.sh in pungi-fedora
  • When orphaning packages, keep the original owner as co-maintainer
  • adjust torrent_hashes.py to non bittorrent world
  • Emit fedmsg when candidate composes are synced to stage
  • Publish “latest” tag to quay.io/fedora/fedora
  • Use an automated script to control checksums of compose images
  • Create an ansible playbook to do the mass-branching
  • Package retirements are broken in rawhide
• Done:
  • Fix F40 flatpak build tags
  • Fedora 40 is in final freeze
  • kiwi can’t create s390x cloud image

EPEL

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, Scientific Linux (SL) and Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

• In progress:
  • Initial CentOS 10 batcave sync script for EPEL 10 buildroot
  • Presentation for Texas Linux Fest giving overview of Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, and EPEL
• Done:
  • Presented onboarding talk to Waterford office new hires, including sections on Fedora, EPEL, and RPM packaging

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