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: 2 – 6 December 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:
  • Create CentOS calendar
  • Error Notification from Firmitas
  • f41 – createRepo/mergeRepo failures related to zstd in mirrors
  • Inactive packagers policy for the F41 release cycle
  • a real domain name for konflux
  • bvmhost-x86-03.stg.iad2.fedoraproject.org has failed disk
  • Need OIDC credentials for fedora magazine in staging
  • Retirement of `monitor-dashboard` tracker
  • Create a POC integration in Konflux for fedora-infra/webhook-to-fedora-messaging
  • Retirement of `monitor-gating` tracker
  • setup ipa02.stg and ipa03.stg again as replicas
  • Move OpenShift apps from deploymentconfig to deployment
  • RFE: fedoras container image register change
  • 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
  • rhel7 eol
  • move resultsdb-ci-listener deployment pipeline
  • rhel7 EOL – github2fedmsg
  • Setup RISC-V builder(s) VM in Fedora Infrastructure
  • Move from iptables to firewalld
  • Help me move my discourse bots to production?
  • 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:
  • Please ban Pagure spammer
  • Email address seems to already be associated with another account
  • Spam account on discussion needs to be blocked in FAS
  • Staging elections kerberos issue
  • Requesting extension for communishift bootc this week bot
  • Remove commit access from orphaned packages
  • chromium builds stuck
  • bugzilla components have a 64 char limit
  • Need to delete user account in FAS that has been already deleted in Discourse (discussion.fedoraproject.org) due to violations (spam, AI, etc.)

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• In progress:
  • Release Improvements
  • Requesting member to tag in sig-extras
  • Investigating needed change for new website layout/rollout
  • Email alias for centos-socialmedia
  • decommission/consolidate supermicro chassis usage
• Done:
  • mirror.hostiko.network
  • Modify ansible role for website generator
  • Create docs-new.centos.org for new docs site
  • Create www-new.centos.org for new website
  • New Build Targets and Tags for the Kmods SIG
  • Migrating some CI VMs to reinstalled chassis
  • hyperscale.sig.centos.org DNS request

Release Engineering

• In progress:
  • Delete “firefox-fix” branch in xdg-desktop-portal
  • Unretire rust-serial-core
  • F42 Self-Contained Change: LXQt 2.1
  • Fedora Linux 41 Post Release Clean Up Tracker
  • please create epel10 based el10-openjdk tag
  • Could we have fedoraproject-updates-archive.fedoraproject.org for Rawhide?
  • Impact check for Changes/FEX
  • 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
  • Drop modularity from EPEL8.
  • 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
  • RFE: Integration of Anitya to Packager Workflow
  • Cleaning old stuff from koji composes directories
  • Fix tokens for ftbfs_weekly_reminder. script
  • Update bootloader components assignee to “Bootloader Engineering Team”for Improved collaboration
• Done:
  • Stalled EPEL package: gpsbabel
  • Unretire goocanvas
  • F42 System-Wide Change: Managing expired PGP keys in DNF5
  • Unretire golang-github-gin-contrib-cors
  • F42 System-Wide Change: RemoveFipsModeSetup
  • Problems with pesign and opensc 0.26.0

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