Dear CentOS enthusiasts, The past month has been quieter than recent months, in terms of news, and I was very occupied with some other things last week, so I hope you can forgive the delay in getting this month's newsletter out. If you want to receive notifications of new newsletters in future months, please subscribe […]
Hi Everyone, Below is this week's CPE weekly for week ending 2020-09-20. I found that if you want to skip to the hackmd, you can use the view link https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view and then use the header bar on your left to skip to either the Fedora or CentOS updates, whichever interest you. I'll also be adjusting […]
Hi everyone, Welcome to September! Below are the most recent Community Platform Engineering project updates, and if you want to know more about our team, see our wiki page here for more information on who our team is: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/ Here are some upcoming IRC meetings: CPE Product Owner Office Hours #fedora-meeting-1 * Weekly on Thursdays […]
As any open source project grows and matures, the people who have always done all the things can’t do everything any more. CentOS is at that point (really, we have been for a long time) and we’ve been struggling with those kind of growing pains for some years. Recently, we made a small change in […]
On 2020-07-08 the CentOS Board of Directors met to discuss ongoing business. The Board welcomed Brian "bex" Exelbierd as a new member Director as Red Hat Liaison. Additional topics included clarifying the Secretary documents/minutes handling, reviewing the new SIG process document proposed by Rich Bowen. A reboot of the NFV SIG was approved and the […]
Linux clothes specialist HELLOTUX from Europe, who makes the official Fedora shirts, signed an agreement with Red Hat to make embroidered CentOS t-shirts, polo shirts and sweatshirts. They have been making Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, and other Linux shirts for 18 years, and now the collection is extended to CentOS. Instead of printing, they use programmable […]
Hi, CentOS enthusiasts, and thanks for coming back for another edition of the CentOS monthly community newsletter. If you want to receive notifications of new newsletters in the future, subscribe to the centos-newsletter mailing list! News: Boothole: In last month's newsletter, we told you about Boothole, and the fix for it. And if you were […]
Background: The Community Platform Engineering group, or CPE for short, 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 […]
Hey folks, CPE need your help 🙂 Over the last several months we've been trying to improve how we interact and share information with you all. From the blog posts, to mails and how we work on the tickets you send us. Here is a link to a very short survey we've put together to […]
Dear CentOS enthusiasts, Here's what's been happening over the past month. News: Boothole Last week we were made aware of a security hole in grub2, and released a fix for that. You can see the details about this on the centos-announce mailing list. Unfortunately, the fix itself had problems that caused a small percentage of […]