Last week we had our first CPE/CentOS IRC office hours. This will become a regular thing, every second Thesday at 15:00 UTC. It's an opportunity to ask anything to the CPE - Community Platform Engineering - team about their work with the CentOS (and Fedora!) infrastructure, from the status of ongoing work, to requesting new […]
Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers can give. See our wiki page here for more information: […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, We hope you are all doing well and staying healthy, and, as always, thank you for being part of this great community. In this edition: News Releases and updates Events SIG reports News User Survey Over the past month we have been conducting a user survey of how people use CentOS, and […]
CPE Weekly: 2020-05-31 Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers can give. See our wiki page here […]
Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Check out our team's info here https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/ GitForge Updates We are still actively engaging with the Fedora Council and have not made any further progress with this project. We are focusing on ensuring we have […]
# CPE Weekly: 2020-04-14 Hi All, Apologies for the delayed weekly mail, I enjoyed a lovely four-day weekend with my family over Easter which was important and didn't get around to sending this email. The upside is you get two emails from me this week instead Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red […]
Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Check out our teams info here https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/ GitForge Updates *There has been a lot of discussion this week on the devel and infra lists about the decision to move to GitLab in the near future. […]
Background: The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers can give. For better communication, we will be giving weekly […]
After evaluating over 300 user stories from multiple stakeholders we have aligned on a decision for the Gitforge that CPE will operate for the coming years. We are opting for Gitlab for our dist git and project hosting and will continue to run pagure.io with community assistance. Analysis and recommendation: A lot of comments and […]
Over the past few weeks we've gotten questions on various forums - email, Twitter, IRC, and so on - about why there are no mentions of CentOS 8 updates, or CentOS Stream updates, on the centos-announce mailing list. For those not familiar, centos-announce is were we tell you about security and bugfix updates that have […]