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Brian Exelbierd is stepping down as Red Hat Liaison to the CentOS Board of Directors. Josh Boyer served as an interim Liaison, leaving Josh's at-large seat on the Board vacant. Nominations are open for a new director. Subsequently, Josh announced that Steve Wanless will be serving as the new Red Hat Liaison. The Cloud SIG […]
The CentOS Docs SIG held a half-day CentOS Doc Day at Flock. Seven of us sat in a room and worked on the documentation, as well as the ongoing work on website refresh. Here are a few highlights of the work. We started the process of merging docs.centos.org and sigs.centos.org, using the mkdocs-based workflow already […]
Some time after CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Linux 7 releases went EOL (End of Life), I had to decommission the infra that was used to build and distribute these releases. (Starting from Stream 9 and beyond, it's built elsewhere and pushed to different CDN) As I needed some public holidays with family, I created […]
The recording of the September CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: The board discussed the SIG Council proposal with Brian Stinson, and how this can help support […]
The recording of the August CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: Brian Exelbierd will be stepping down as Red Hat Liaison. Josh Boyer will fill this role […]
This is a summary of the work done by the CentOS Infrastructure team. This team maintains the infrastructure for both CentOS and CentOS Stream. This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.
This report covers work that happened between January 27th 2024 and July 3rd 2024. For previous work, see the 2023Q4 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the SIG membership has remained the same. We […]
June 2024 News CentOS Linux 7 will be EOL on June 30. Please migrate to CentOS Stream 9 or another suitable option. Various services that used CentOS Linux 7 will be retired at the end of June. In particular, the CentOS Forums will be shut down, and redirect to the CentOS category on Fedora Discourse. […]
The recording of the April CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: Davide created an "Ask the CentOS Board" Matrix room. Pat has documented the new SIG retirement […]
As you probably know, CentOS Stream development is happening in the open on Gitlab.com. You can see changes happening in real time in the redhat/centos-stream/rpms namespace. You can check open merge request, create yours and provide feedback. Yet, due to the limitations of the Gitlab platform, we have not been able to provide an unauthenticated […]