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: 26 – 30 August 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:
- Planned Outage – network hardware updates – 2024-08-29 15:00 UTC
- RFE: fedoras container image register change
- [CommOps] MediaWiki – HitCounter Extension
- httpd 2.4.61 causing issue in fedora infrastructure
- Support allocation dedicated hosts for Testing Farm
- Feature / Change request: make the Fedora bugzilla more accessible
- Searching mailing list archives does not work
- Moderating mailing list viewing message shows “This held message has been lost.”
- EPEL minor version archive repos in MirrorManager
- vmhost-x86-copr01.rdu-cc.fedoraproject.org DOWN
- Request for new FAS group: miracle-sig
- Recurring issue that Bugzilla stops sending messages to fedora-messaging
- Cleaning script for communishift
- rhel7 eol
- rhel7 EOL – github2fedmsg
- Move from iptables to firewalld
- Update compose hosts to get latest pungi release (4.6.0)
- notofications do not notify
- fedmsg -> fedora-messaging migration tracker
- rhel9 adoption
- Create monitoring tool for rabbitmq certificates
- Replace Nagios with Zabbix in Fedora Infrastructure
- Migration of registry.fedoraproject.org to quay.io
- Commits don’t end up on the scm-commits list
- Done:
- Opt-in for AWS region to ap-southeast-5 acct:125523088429
- Ban pagure spammer
- missing Bugzilla component for a new package
- All recent Fedora images are gone from AWS
- release-monitoring.org crawlers seem to not be running since ~June 26
- rpm-ostree error (503) from hetzner to https://d2uk5hbyrobdzx.cloudfront.net
- Haskell package group
- Fedora Cloud Base 39+ AWS images should use uefi-preferred boot method
CentOS Infra including CentOS CI
- In progress:
- Done:
Release Engineering
- In progress:
- The `openh264` package fails to install because of the GPG key
- enable bodhi composes for EPEL-10.0
- Fedora 41 Mass Branching Tracker
- 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
- Some (?) retired packages not actually getting retired since ~2 days ago
- Drop modularity from EPEL8.
- unmaintained bot account: dummy-test-package-gloster gating pipeline tests broken
- Renaming distribution media for Fedora Server
- 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
- Cleaning old stuff from koji composes directories
- Fix tokens for ftbfs_weekly_reminder. script
- i686 builders need to use 32-bit inode numbers
- Remove PDC from package retirement process
- Update bootloader components assignee to “Bootloader Engineering Team”for Improved collaboration
- Done:
- BuildError: package gnome-radio is blocked for tag f(39-41)-updates-candidate
- Repository for python-glfw not correctly created
- Unretire python-importlib-resources
- Retire FTI packages in NEW state
- bugzilla epel10 version
- EPEL 10 rpmautospec problem
- i686 builds randomly failing due to not finding /usr/bin/ld
- Chain rebuilds of containers
- A module stream request should add the stream value as a version to Bugzilla
- Remove file from lookaside cache
CPE Initiatives
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
- EPEL 10 pre release – is at 448 source packages
- Create EPEL 10 nightly compose script and pungi config
- Switch EPEL 10 compose to nightly cron job
- Work with Fedora-CI team to create an epel10 profile
- Planning discussion for EPEL 10 mock configs
Community Design
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
- Brainstorming ideas for the F42 Wallpaper has started
- Podman Desktop
- Mockups for extension install web page
- Page layout documentation
ARC Investigations
The ARC (which is a subset of the CPE team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on.
Updates
- Dist Git Move
- Pull request up for review for the evidence gathering https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/arc/pull-request/167
- The usecases collecting and evidence gathering phase will be timegated – More information to be shared on the next week report
- Please direct your findings on the dedicated discussion thread https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/inviting-testers-for-git-forge-usecases/129016
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