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FESCo election: interview with Tom Stellard

This is a part of the Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Friday, 3 June and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, 16 June.

Interview with Tom Stellard

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FESCo election: interview with Major Hayden

This is a part of the Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Friday, 3 June and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, 16 June.

Interview with Major Hayden

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Council election: interview with Sumantro Mukherjee

This is a part of the Council Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Friday, 3 June and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, 16 June.

Interview with Sumantro Mukherjee

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  • IRC:  sumantrom (found in ,#fedora-kde,#fedora-mindshare,#fedora-social,#fedora-social-hour, -arm,#fedora-devel,#fedora-qa,#fedora-workstation,#fedora-test-days, -i3,#fedora-badges,#fedora-docs,#fedora-l18n,#fedora-ambassadors)
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Council election: interview with Eduard Lucena

This is a part of the Council Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Friday, 3 June and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, 16 June.

Interview with Eduard Alexander Lucena Mendoza

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We want to hear from you: take the Fedora Annual Contributor Survey for 2022!

The Fedora Council wants to hear what you have to say! Like last year, the goal of this survey is to collect valuable feedback to provide the right support for our Fedora community. We will evaluate the gathered information and discuss them at Nest with Fedora 2022. We are excited to have another set of data so we can run a comparative analysis and understand changes in the Fedora community over the last year. The survey will be open for all of June, and you will have the opportunity to earn a fun Fedora Badge. Take this year’s Annual Contributor Survey today!

The survey was coordinated by an awesome set of folks: Fedora Council member, Aleksandra Fedorova, Marie Nordin (coordination), Sumantro Mukherjee (support), Vipul Siddharth (LimeSurvey wrangler), Isabella Gordillo-Guevara (promotion) and Ashlyn Knox (websites). The Mindshare Committee and the Community Outreach Revamp team also aided in the creation of the survey and provided feedback several times as it was developed. We are excited to hear what our community has to say!

If you want to know more about our last year’s survey or explore the data set, checkout “Fedora Contributor Annual Survey Data Set Available“.

Fedora docs is about to change significantly! Check it out still in statu nascendi.

In a recent Fedora Magazine article we shared about a new burst of energy regarding the Fedora docs. We already implemented various improvements and worked on a plan to generally improve and update Fedora documentation.

The latter will lead to far-reaching changes in Fedora documentation and is about to happen now and entail continuous changes over the next approximately 12 months. We present here our analysis, our content concept and our implementation planning. We hope for ideas from the community to further enhance the concept and for support to turn it into reality.

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CPE Weekly Update – Week 21 2022

This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on -cpe channel on libera.chat (https://libera.chat/).

Week: 23rd May – 27th May 2022

Read more: CPE Weekly Update – Week 21 2022

Highlights of the week

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

Goal of this Initiative

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.).
The ARC (which is a subset of the team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on.
Link to planning board: https://zlopez.fedorapeople.org/I&R-2022-05-25.pdf

Update

  • Infra and releng team was investigating Openshift in AWS for communishift and CentOS CI

Fedora Infra

  • Ocp3 certs expired, had to renew/push new ones (~20min outage)
  • Finished up a mass update/reboot. Things up on 8.6 now.
  • Hit bug in new ansible-freeipa and filed it upstream
  • Got first RHEL9 staging virthost installed
  • Bunch of email issues to/from redhat.com, hopefully almost all solved now.
  • OCP4 clusters moved to 4.10.
  • Some compose machines moved to f36 already.

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

  • CentOS Stream storage migration spike (Netapp for nfs/iscsi) (blocked : no news)
  • Duffy/CI progress:
    • Site-to-site vpn tunnel between VPC (us-east-1) and CI infra
    • delegated/hosted (dynamic) pool.ci.centos.org zone on route53
    • Dns forwarding (both directions : vpc ⇔ ci infra)
    • Ansible playbooks ready
  • Git.centos.org pagure upgrade/migration (blocked, waiting on internal – EXD)
  • Business as usual (mirrors, tags)

Release Engineering

  • f32/33 archived. Old rc’s cleaned up

CentOS Stream

Goal of this Initiative

This initiative is working on CentOS Stream/Emerging RHEL to make this new distribution a reality. The goal of this initiative is to prepare the ecosystem for the new CentOS Stream.

Updates

  • Working on first modules and software collections for CentOS Stream 9
  • Changing the Fedora ELN Everything repository to only contain what’s not in AppStream, BaseOS, and CRB, and renaming it to Extras
  • Getting CentOS Stream 8 workflow closer to 9:
    • Currently testing “import latest modules”, expect to have modules imported early next week.
    • Updating is currently manual for both modules and normal RPMs, also working on an automated import script to run at regular intervals. Expect to be finished next week.

CentOS Duffy CI

Goal of this Initiative

Duffy is a system within CentOS CI Infra which allows tenants to provision and access bare metal resources of multiple architectures for the purposes of CI testing.
We need to add the ability to checkout VMs in CentOS CI in Duffy. We have OpenNebula hypervisor available, and have started developing playbooks which can be used to create VMs using the OpenNebula API, but due to the current state of how Duffy is deployed, we are blocked with new dev work to add the VM checkout functionality.

Updates

  • Skip beta and release 3.0.0
  • Continue work on provisioning nodes for Duffy in EC2
  • CLI for tenants (what was cicoclient, ongoing)

Package Automation (Packit Service)

Goal of this initiative

Automate RPM packaging of infra apps/packages

Updates

  • Package proposal on fasjson created on bugzilla
  • Release of fedora-messaging 3.0.2
  • Packit added to noggin-messaging (noggin dependency)
  • Packaging datanommer.models in progress (datagrepper dependency)
  • Business as usual, a lot of manual packaging

Flask-oidc: oauth2client replacement

Goal of this initiative

Flask-oidc is a library used across the Fedora infrastructure and is the client for ipsilon for its authentication. flask-oidc uses oauth2client. This library is now deprecated and no longer maintained. This will need to be replaced with authlib.

Updates:

  • Test-auth app running, allows user to successfully login using Fedora acct details
  • Implementing authlib function changes in codebase
  • Trying to pull user info from login creds

EPEL

Goal of this initiative

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).

EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more.

Updates

  • epel9 available at the launch of rhel9 with 5764 packages, from 2678 source packages, built by 249 different packagers
  • epel9 update of python-jwt to fix CVE-2022-29217
  • epel8 and epel9 update of epel-rpm-macros to require ansible-srpm-macros (provides macros for packaging ansible collections)
  • bdii installation from epel9 problem resolved for c9s, will be resolved in RHEL 9.1
  • Documentation improvements:
    • added list of channels/repos epel9 and epel9-next are built against
    • updated quickstart guide for rhel9 GA and alma9 beta
    • removed mentions of CentOS Linux 8

Kindest regards,
CPE Team

Friday’s Fedora Facts: 2022-21

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!

Fedora Linux 34 reaches end of life on Tuesday 7 June.

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Call for F37 Test Days

It’s time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora Linux 37. A Test Day is an event aimed getting together interested users and developers to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do some fairly focused testing in ‘real time’ with a group of testers; it doesn’t have to be code. For instance, we often run Test Days for l10n/i18n topics. For more information on Test Days, see the wiki.

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Some docs repos are moving to GitLab

The Fedora Docs team is starting the process of moving repos from the fedora-docs namespace on Pagure to GitLab. We’re making this move in order to take advantage of features like improved in-browser editing and cross-repo kanban boards. This move will be entirely transparent to the docs published at docs.fedoraproject.org. However, if you are contributing to one of the repos in this namespace, you’ll need to update the git remote.

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