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September 2024 News

Monday, 23, September 2024 shaunm Newsletter No Comments

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 […]

CentOS Doc Day at Flock

Monday, 23, September 2024 shaunm SIG No Comments

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 […]

Thank you, all CentOS Sponsors !

Tuesday, 17, September 2024 Fabian Arrotin Infra, mirrors, Sponsors No Comments

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 […]

CentOS Board Meeting Recap, September 2024

Tuesday, 17, September 2024 shaunm Board minutes No Comments

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 […]

CentOS Board Meeting Recap, August 2024

Thursday, 29, August 2024 shaunm Board minutes No Comments

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 […]

CentOS Infrastructure Update Q2 2024

Monday, 22, July 2024 zlopez Infra No Comments

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.

CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2024Q2

Monday, 8, July 2024 Davide Cavalca SIG No Comments

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

Thursday, 27, June 2024 shaunm Newsletter No Comments

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. […]

CentOS Board Meeting Recap, June 2024

Friday, 21, June 2024 shaunm Uncategorized No Comments

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 […]

How to watch for CentOS Stream activity on Fedora Message Bus

Wednesday, 5, June 2024 bookwar ci, SIG No Comments

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 […]