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: 09 – 13 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:
  • Unable to download epel-next-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
  • Deploy Element Server Suite operator in staging
  • Create CentOS calendar
  • Pagure returns error 500 trying to open a PR on https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-setuptools-gettext
  • Inactive packagers policy for the F41 release cycle
  • a real domain name for konflux
  • bvmhost-x86-03.stg.iad2.fedoraproject.org has failed disk
  • 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 raise my disk quota on fedorapeople.org
  • Allow to copy Fedora AMIs
  • fedpkg upload says Could not execute upload: Dist-git request is unauthorized.
  • Repeated Authentication failures and 504 Gateway Timeouts on id.fedoraproject.org/login
  • Outage: Upgrade of Copr servers – 2024-12-04 09:00 UTC
  • disable EOL’d f39 in koschei
  • Unable to get Fedora 41 CN mirrors in metalink.
  • Requesting centos-sig-hyperscale calendar for https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/group/sig-hyperscale/
  • f41 – createRepo/mergeRepo failures related to zstd in mirrors
  • Create fedora/kickstart-artifacts repo on quay.io
  • Need to delete user account in FAS that has been already deleted in Discourse (discussion.fedoraproject.org) due to violations (spam, AI, etc.)
  • Stablizing things before holidays. Riscv secondary koji setup starting

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• In progress:
  • Release Improvements
  • Investigating needed change for new website layout/rollout
• Done:
  • [CloudSIG] Create build targets
  • Reset Automotive SIG’s duffy access
  • RPM signing and mirror upload not done after 2+ hours – systemd-256.7-1.9
  • [CloudSIG] Create new git repo for python-packaging
  • Requesting member to tag in sig-extras
  • Email alias for centos-socialmedia
  • decommission/consolidate supermicro chassis usage

Release Engineering

• In progress:
  • Create detached signatures for the butane 2.23.0 release
  • 10 builds still koji tagged with signing-pending
  • Delete “firefox-fix” branch in xdg-desktop-portal
  • 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:
  • F42 System-Wide Change: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default
  • Stalled EPEL package: python-authres
  • Unretire rust-serial-core
  • Rawhide compose FINISHED (all artifiacts produced)

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