On 2020-06-10 the CentOS Board of Directors met with Chris Wright and Deb Bryant to settle open discussions on the future of the Red Hat Liaison role on the CentOS Board. The Board also welcomed Rich Bowen as an ex-officio member, Thomas Oulevey as the new Board Secretary, and approved Brian Exelbierd as a new […]
CPE Weekly: 2020-06-21 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 […]
Adapting to AppStreams: Delivering the Datto Linux Agent for RHEL 8, with Neal Gompa (A presentation from Red Hat Summit)
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: […]
(A presentation from Red Hat Summit) Migration to RHEL Converting RHEL-like systems to RHEL with convert2rhel See also https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/convert2rhel-how-update-rhel-systems-place-subscribe-rhel https://github.com/oamg/convert2rhel
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: […]
We have been running the CentOS User Survey for about a month (you can still fill it out - it's just 4 questions) and we're ready to share some preliminary results. We do play to keep running it for another month, to get a wider pool of respondants. Main use Asked what you use CentOS […]
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 […]
(A presentation from Red Hat Summit) Special Interest Groups (SIG) are smaller groups within the CentOS community that focus on a small set of issues, in order to either create awareness or to focus on development along a specific topic. CentOS Community Manager Rich Bowen talks a little about what that means.