This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contain 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: 27th November – 1st December 2023

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

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.).
Planning board

Fedora Infra

• Inactive packager removal for the F39 cycle
• Make scripts to sync log files more robust
• [openshift/project] Fix the parameter order for oc apply
• Fix 500 on release-monitoring.org
• Update infra documentation
• New email alias for grome-sig
• [Pagure Exporter] Added .gitleaks.toml to avoid false positives
• [Pagure Exporter] Enhanced testing support using VCR.py

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• Please add epel-rpm-macros to all Hyperscale SIG buildroots
• Consolidate/reduce aarch64 workload
• Reinstall refreshed sponsored server
• Fix: Duffy seems to be inaccessible from CentOS CI OCP
• TMT compose testing prorotype
• New Koji prune policy – dry run and deployment

Release Engineering

• Rename CommuniShift project to communishift-log-detective
• Zabbix agent for releng hosts

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

Updates

• Retired EPEL 7 packages that fail to install due to puppet retirement

ARC Investigations

The ARC (which is a subset of the CPE team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on.

Updates

• Dist-Git decoupling & ecosystem mapping
  • Design of new dist-git added
  • Summary of current dist-git deployment added
  • You can follow your work here:
    • Hackmd.io document used for notes
    • Tickets for investigation

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on matrix.