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

We provide you both an infographic and a 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 at the infographic.

Week: February 25-29, 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:
  • notifications do not notify
  • Migration of registry.fedoraproject.org to quay.io
  • add monitoring for dnf countme
  • Replace Nagios with Zabbix in Fedora Infrastructure
  • 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
  • github2fedmsg 500 error
• Done:
  • Zabbix: added fix for vnetX interface alerts 
  • Planned Outage – koji upgrade  – 2024-02-21 21:00 UTC
  • pkgs01 retired packages cron output
  • Add Zabbix monitoring to releng compose machines
  • FAS: The group members list is limited to 2000 users
  • flatpak-indexer not updating indexes since February 13th
  • Issues with logging in (500 Internal Server Error)
  • Figure out what to do about check_ipa_replication: nagios check

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

• In progress:
  • Migrate/decommission lists.centos.org
  • Migrate aarch64 workload on new Ampere/snow machines
• Done:
  • Issue with CentOS CI Prod Openshift cluster: redeploy control plane node
  • init new sponsored aarch64 ampere server
  • setup new aarch64 hypervisors

Release Engineering

• In progress:
  • Packages that fail to build SRPM are not reported during the mass rebuild bugzillas
  • Fedora 39 CHECKSUM file doesn’t have any GPG data
  • Collect Atomic Desktop artifacts under single directory
  • Silverblue aarch64 installer image compose always fails on F38 and Rawhide
• Done:
  • Fedora 40 Beta freeze started

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), and Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

• Packaged onnx into EPEL9 at the request of the Fedora AI/ML SIG

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