CentOS Community newsletter, August 2020 (#2008)

Tuesday , 4, August 2020 Rich Bowen Uncategorized 1 Comment

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 systems to be unbootable. We have since released fixes for that situation, too, which you can read about in the resolution of this bug - https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17631 - and additional information may be found in the RHEL ticket, here: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311

Further discussion of the issue may be found in recent threads on the centos@centos.org mailing list.

User Survey

Over the past 3 or 4 months, we have been running a survey about how you use CentOS. Many thanks to those who participated in this, to help us better understand how we can give you what you need.

I've written up the results of the survey here - https://blog.centos.org/2020/07/centos-community-user-survey/

While some of the results were expected - most of you use CentOS in small to medium shops, running services either for work or personal use - there were some eye-opening things in this. To me personally, the volunteerism question shows that a lot of you are looking for places to get involved, and that we haven't done a great job telling you where and how. We'll be working to fix that.

For those of you who missed the survey, we intend to do this again, perhaps as often as twice a year, and also provide opportunities to give more feedback beyond the simple 5-minute questionnaire.

Thank you all for participating, and for being part of our community.

New website: Contribution information

By now you've noticed the fresh look on the centos.org website. But it's not just a new look. It's also a new back-end, which, among other things, makes it easier for you to contribute changes and updates to the content. Please see this blog post for information about how you can help us improve the CentOS website.

CPE Updates

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.

Events:

Nest

This weekend is Nest - the Fedora conference. This conference is usually known as Flock, or "Flock To Fedora", but this year, since we cannot flock, we're going to nest at home.

Register at the event website (it's free!) and join us this weekend for 3 days of great Fedora (and CentOS!) content.

DevConf.US

DevConf is next month, and is another free, online event. DevConf targets developers - especially those developing on Linux. Event details and registration are available on the event website.

SIG reports:

Storage SIG:

NFS-Ganesha and libntirpc were updated to 2.8.4/1.8.1 and 3.3/3.3 respectively.
To help gfidente out and get Ceph back on track, I migrated the Ceph dist-git repos to git.centos.org from the old repos on github and converted them to the new format. I went ahead and built ceph-14.2.9 (el7, el8) and 15.2.3 (el8 only because python3) — which were the current versions at the time. But since then 14.2.10 and 15.2.4 have been released, and the release of 14.2.11 is imminent.
It's a bit beyond the quarter time frame, but glusterfs-coreutils was updated finally after many years to version 0.3.1 and built for el7 and el8; gluster-block was updated to version 0.4 and built for el8. The previous version (0.3) remains in place for el7.

Updates

Errata and Enhancements Advisories

We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during July:

Errata and Security Advisories

We issued the following CESA (CentOS Errata and Security Advisories) during July:

Errata and Bugfix Advisories

We issued the following CEBA (CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisories) during July:

Other releases

The following releases/updates also happened during July:

centos.org contribution process

Thursday , 30, July 2020 Rich Bowen Uncategorized Leave a comment

I hope that by now you've seen the fresh new look on centos.org. If not, you should go look now.

Community member Alain Reguera Delgado, Fabian Arrotin, and a number of others proposed some style updates to the site, as well as a change to the way the site is generated and served. In addition to looking great, this also greatly simplifies the process of updating the content of the site.

If there are changes that you want to suggest for the CentOS website, the process for doing so is documented HERE, and the site content is there, too. You can send a pull request there, and we'll review them and publish once approved.

The CentOS website is *your* website, and we welcome your contributions to it.

CentOS Community User Survey Results

Wednesday , 29, July 2020 Rich Bowen Uncategorized 5 Comments

Over the past several months we have been running a user survey to learn more about how CentOS is used. This was a very short survey - 4 questions - designed to give us a very high-level view of how the community breaks down in terms of usage. We hope that next year we can expand on this and get more detail.

There were 426 responses to the survey, with 96 of those individuals indicating that they would be open to us contacting them for more detail about their answers.

Without further introduction, here are the answers. (Note: we did an early report on results 2 months ago, and results have not changed significantly since then.)

Question 1: What we use it for.

Note: Percentages do not add up to 100% because multiple responses were allowed.

  • Professional software development: 30.4% (129 responses)
  • Personal/Hobby software development: 31.1% (132)
  • Running services for a job/company: 62.6% (266)
  • Running services for personal/home use: 62.8% (267)
  • Desktop computer 27.5% (117)

Takeway: CentOS is still used primarily as the workhorse on which you run your network services, both at work and at home, but using it as a software development platform is a strong second. Lots of alternate answers entered under "Other" were almost all just rephrasings of the above categories.

Question 2: Volunteerism

This question asked where participants would be interested in volunteering. Approximately half of respondents skipped this question.

  • Testing: 58.4% (132)
  • Packaging: 37.6% (85)
  • Design: 15.5% (35)
  • Promotion: 22.1% (50)
  • Event planning: 5.3% (12)

Takeaway: A lot of you want to help with testing and packaging. Why aren't you? This probably indicates that our onboarding documentation/process around the testing/qa effort needs a lot of improvement, and that we need to do a better job of pointing people to packaging opportunities like SIGs and EPEL. Those of you who want to help with design and promotion, please join us on the centos-promo mailing list!

Question 3: Size of installation

In this question we offered some very broad categories of installation sizes to get an idea of whether you're running this on a single machine or a cluster of thousands.

  • 1-5 systems: 42.1% (179)
  • 6-50 systems: 34.6% (147)
  • 51-100 systems: 8.5% (36)
  • 101-1000 systems: 10.4% (44)
  • 1000+ systems: 4.5% (19)

Takeaway: While most of our fascinating stories tend to focus on the massive installations - the supercomputing clusters and massive social networks of the world - the overwhelming majority of users are smaller installations in the 1-50 systems range.

Question 4: Update frequency

With this question we were trying to get a clearer idea of how important frequent updates are - how often do you consume new packages with a dnf update

  • Daily - 19.4% (82)
  • Weekly - 36.3% (153)
  • Monthly - 26.8% (113)
  • New releases - 5.2% (22)
  • Less frequently - 12.3% (52)

Takeaways: Almost all of you update at least monthly, with more than half of you updating at least once a week. We think this means that regular updates are pretty important to you. We're fascinated with the 12% of you who install a system and then leave it running with no updates.

What did we learn?

The biggest thing that I learned from this is that there's a lot of you out there that want to help and don't know what opportunities are available. We obviously need to do a much better job of telling you about those opportunities.

There's so much more that we wanted to ask, but we know that surveys are annoying, and you get a million of them every week. We do intend to do more of these in the future, but will try to do them in such a way that they are as uninavasive as possible, while giving the opportunity for those of you who want to tell us more, to do so.

Those of you who indicated that we can contact you to ask more - we're still trying to figure out what we want to ask you. Thanks for your willingness and your patience. You'll hear from us in the coming months.

CPE Weekly: 2020-07-25

Saturday , 25, July 2020 Rich Bowen Uncategorized Leave a comment

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: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/

General Project Updates

The CPE team are working on the following projects for Quarter 3,
which is the months of July, August & September:
* Data Centre Move - Final Works
* CentOS Stream Phase 3
* Noggin Phase 3
* Packager Workflow Healthcare
* Fedora Messaging Schemas

Details of the above projects, and of projects currently in progress,
done and what projects are in our backlog, can be found on our taiga
board per project card:
https://tree.taiga.io/project/amoloney1-cpe-team-projects/kanban?epic=null

We also have an updated initiative timetable for briefing in new
projects to our team & key dates
here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/time_tables/
*Note: Initiatives are large pieces of work that require a team of
people and weeks/months to complete. Please continue to open tickets
in the normal way for bugs, issues, etc.

CPE Product Owner Office Hours

#fedora-meeting-1

* Weekly on Thursdays @ 1300 UTC on #fedora-meeting-1
* Next Meeting: 2020-07-30

#centos-meeting

* Every second Tuesday @ 1500 UTC on #centos-meeting
* Next Meeting: 2020-08-04

Misc

* CFP for Nest with Fedora submissions are closing on Monday 27th July
- dont forget to submit your ideas/talks here https://pagure.io/flock
* CPE Engagement email was sent a few weeks ago, please read if you
have not already and feel free to send me your feedback on or off list
before 31st July. A follow up email will be sent with feedback
received and actions taken where it makes sense then afterwards.
Thanks for your
engagement! https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/UNWTLOI2U4VKAU4IKJZGZLZ2DTMPEFBW/

Fedora Updates

Data Centre Move

* The team have been working incredibly hard over the last few weeks
and are now working on reinstalling the staging environment.
* We estimate this work to be completed by July 31st, however things
happen so we thank you in advance for your patience
* The project card on taiga for builder - staging - remaining app
bringup dates here
https://tree.taiga.io/project/amoloney1-cpe-team-projects/us/42?kanban-status=2139945
* A list of affected services is available here
https://hackmd.io/hpYYJQRjQy-oHxUS7IonIA?view
* Details on what this move may mean for you can be found here
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/27U6YT73556KYW2RIFJO6J2HYMYVP22U/
* If an application is not working correctly at all, please check this
list https://hackmd.io/hpYYJQRjQy-oHxUS7IonIA?view before opening a
ticket to make sure its not listed as being moved. If it is being
moved, please wait a day or two, then try again.
* And finally a reminder to please be patient when opening tickets for
service issues in general as we are in the critical point in this move
and all of our sys-admins and wider teams are assisting in the
successful bringup of the reduced Fedora service and facilitation of
the final hardware shipment and move.

AAA Replacement

* The team are focusing work on this ticket and collaborating with the
Sustaining team for the next sprint, with the goal to have noggin
installed & deployed to staging
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/9152
* The have also been addressing how to curtail spam email and more
information on that effort can be found here
https://github.com/fedora-infra/noggin/issues/27
* And have added the feature to allow groups with a prefix for groups
to import to avoid overlaps between CentOS and Fedora
https://github.com/fedora-infra/fas2ipa/issues/5
* Please feel free to check out the team kanban board for more
information on the features the team are working on and have already
completed here https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6

Fedora Messaging Schemas

* The team are using a kanban approach for this project as Noggin
takes priority until fully complete
* The team have already built a list of applications that require
messaging schemas, list can be found here
https://hackmd.io/@nilsph/H1i8CAbkP/edit
* They also have completed a readme which contains documentation on
messaging schemas, a cookie-cutter template to create the schema and a
definition of Done for writing a schemas
https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedora-messaging-schemas-issues
* The board they are working from can be viewed here
https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/7

Packager Workflow Healthcare

* Project information: This is an investigative project that aims to
look at the entire packager workflow as a single piece of tooling to
identify where failures happen, and try to identify when and why
packages fail at different points within the workflow. We hope to have
two possible outcomes from this project at the end of the quarter
(September):
* The workflow breaks at X point and we will work on a solution to fix
* OR
* The workflow works fine, but we will need better monitoring on
the pipeline so we will work on a solution for this
* The team are using this Monitor-Script
https://pagure.io/fedora-ci/monitor-gating/
* Current status: failing consistently because of CI test timeouts
* The jenkins instance being used is under-resourced, jobs waiting
up to 40 minutes for a node
* They are using a workable dump of historical datanommer/datagrepper
data for queries to pull metrics on the historical/aggregate Packager
Workflow from as a baseline
* And are working on an outline of the workflow steps (from packager
PoV) and systems involved (CPE team PoV), identifying metrics to be
measured
* The teams work is being tracked here
https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/cpe-cicd/kanban

CentOS Updates

CentOS

* CentOS-infra project created https://pagure.io/centos-infra/
* Day to Day working with CentOS-infra being documented at:
https://pagure.io/cpe/docs/pull-request/10
* New website is live https://www.centos.org

CentOS Stream

* Business as usual, the team are churning through building packages in Stream
* They are also working on tooling to bring back some rpkg features

As always, feedback is welcome, and we will continue to look at ways
to improve the delivery and readability of this weekly report.

Have a great week!

Aoife

Source: https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view

CentOS Community newsletter, July 2020 (#2007)

Tuesday , 7, July 2020 Rich Bowen Uncategorized 2 Comments

Dear CentOS enthusiasts,

Thanks for coming back for another edition of the CentOS community newsletter.

News

8.2.2004 release

We are pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 8.2.2004. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 8 and is tagged as 2004, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Source Code.

As always, read through the Release Notes at : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS8.2004  - these notes contain important information about the release and details about some of the content inside the release from the CentOS QA team. These notes are updated constantly to include issues and incorporate feedback from the users.

More information at https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-June/035756.html

You can track the status of upcoming 7.x and 8.x releases at  https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_7 and https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 respectively

centos.org refresh

With a great deal of help from community members Fabian Arrotin and Alain Reguera Delgado, we are proud to announce our new centos.org website, which you can see today at https://centos.org/   The new site is built using Jekyll - https://jekyllrb.com/ - which makes it easier to contribute to, and easier to build and deploy.

If you want to contribute patches or changes to the website, that is now done via https://git.centos.org/centos/centos.org  The new workflow makes it easy to test your changes locally, and send pull requests which can be approved and rolled out automatically to the live site.

Additionally, of course the site design has been refreshed and redesigned, updating the site that was last refreshed in 2013. So a huge thank you in particular to Alain for that work.

Board meeting minutes

The minutes of the June CentOS Board of Directors meeting may be found on the CentOS Blog at https://blog.centos.org/2020/06/minutes-for-centos-board-of-directors-for-2020-06-10/

Highlights include:

Board Liaison role has passed from Karsten Wade to Brian “bex” Exelbierd, due to his strategic placement in Red Hat’s RHEL business unit. Please welcome bex to the board.

The Community Architect (currently Rich Bowen) has been added as a permanent invite to board meetings. This is to give you, the community, another way to have your voice heard.

The Secretary role has passed from Karsten Wade to Thomas Oulevey as part of the regular rotation of that position.

The July board meeting will be held on July 8th. (it’s always on the second Wednesday of the month.) If you have issues that you need to raise to the board, you are encouraged to open a ticket at https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issues

CPE Updates

CPE (Community Platform Engineering) is the group in Red Hat which provides infrastructure support to the CentOS and Fedora projects. Their weekly updates, posted both to the centos-devel mailing list and to the CentOS blog, provide insight into what they’re working on, and what’s coming next.

To learn more about what CPE is doing, come to the CPE office hours, every other Tuesday at 15:00 UTC on the #centos-meeting IRC channel, on Freenode.

Events

Please plan to join us September 24th and 25th for DevConf.US, an event for open source developers. The call for presentations is still open for one more day!

Updates

Errata and Enhancements Advisories

We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during June:

Errata and Security Advisories

We issued the following CESA (CentOS Errata and Security Advisories) during June:

Errata and Bugfix Advisories

We issued the following CEBA (CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisories) during June:

Other releases

The following releases also happened during June:

CentOS Stream

We've done a lot of work over the past few weeks to keep up to date with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Development. Currently Red Hat is in the middle of the development cycle for the upcoming RHEL 8.3, and you should be seeing some content from 8.3 reflected in CentOS Stream. Expect to see more content coming through as we add more modules. There is an updated installer and refreshed install media on the mirrors for you to try right now!

RealTime in CentOS Stream

One major addition to CentOS Stream is the RealTime (RT) repository. This is a set of packages that is developed alongside Red Hat Enterprise Linux, focused on latency-sensitive workloads. Because these packages are developed so closely with a given RHEL release, it makes perfect sense to include these packages in and gather feedback from CentOS Stream. The packages in the RealTime repository represent what's coming in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time addon for RHEL 8.3.

You can see the documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time here:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux_for_real_time/8/html/installation_guide/index

To enable this repository on your system, make sure you have a fresh install of CentOS Stream or `dnf update` to be sure you have the latest `centos-release-stream package` and enable the `Stream-RT` repository

Yum repo files are located in: `/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-RT.repo`

As always, bugs can be reported against the CentOS Stream version in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%208&version=CentOS%20Stream

SIG Reports

Software Collections SIG Report

 Membership update

We are always looking for new members. However, no changes in membership happened in the last six months.

Process changes and releases

  1. The SIG started to reap benefits of the new, streamlined process of releasing packages from the CentOS build system. As a consequence, packages successfully build in CBS should be now coming to you with less bureaucracy.

    However, this move required changes in the release CI. Although most of the associated issues are now resolved, there are still some kinks to iron out as we go along.

  1. The Red Hat Software Collections 3.5 were sucessfully rebuilt and should be presently available in the testing (buildlogs) repository. Due to the changes mentioned in the previous point, not all of the collections reached the release repositories (mirrors) yet, but they should be appearing gradually in a few weeks.

 New collections included in this release are:

    -   Perl 5.30 (rh-perl530)
    -   Python 3.8 (rh-python38)
    -   Ruby 2.7 (rh-ruby27)

    Several other existing collections also received updates.

    For details, please see the official release notes.

  1. The https://www.softwarecollections.org/ website was migrated to run in OpenShift environment. The benefits should include increased availability and stability. As the backend changes necessary were not insignificant, there may be unforeseen new issues still present despite the testing done beforehand. Please do not hesitate to report them to the sclorg mailing list.

Health and activity

The SIG remains active and tries to respond to any issues raised while keeping the official Red Hat collections available and up-to-date on CentOS.

However, most of the actual work is done by a single person (jstanek). More active members would be more than welcome, at least in order to increase the bus factor above 1 🙂

 

[Video] KDE on CentOS 8

Tuesday , 7, July 2020 Rich Bowen Video Leave a comment

Enabling and configuring KDE on CentOS 8 (A presentation from Red Hat Summit)

CPE Weekly: 2020-07-05

Monday , 6, July 2020 Rich Bowen Uncategorized Leave a comment

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: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/

General Project Updates

The CPE team have finished our Quarterly Planning for Q3, July -
September, and will begin work on the following projects starting from
Monday:
* Data Centre Move - Final Works
* CentOS Stream Phase 3
* Noggin Phase 3
* Packager Workflow Healthcare
* Fedora Messaging Schemas

Details of the above projects, and of projects currently in progress,
done and what projects are in our backlog, can be found on our taiga
board per project card:
https://tree.taiga.io/project/amoloney1-cpe-team-projects/kanban?epic=null

We also have an updated initiative timetable for briefing in new
projects to our team & key dates
here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/time_tables/
* Note: Initiatives are large pieces of work that require a team of
people and weeks/months to complete. Please continue to open tickets
in the normal way for bugs, issues, etc.

Look out for our Q2 project achievements blog post coming soon!

CPE Product Owner Office Hours

#fedora-meeting-1

* Weekly on Thursdays @ 1300 UTC on #fedora-meeting-1
* Next Meeting: 2020-07-09

#centos-meeting

* Every second Tuesday @ 1500 UTC on #centos-meeting
* Next Meeting: 2020-07-07

Fedora Updates

Data Centre Move

* We are now officially operating under reduced Fedora services until
est 28th July to facilitate the final shipment of hardware to the new
data centre.
* Please View project card on taiga for builder - staging - remaining
app bringup dates here
https://tree.taiga.io/project/amoloney1-cpe-team-projects/us/42?kanban-status=2139945
* A list of affected services is available here
https://hackmd.io/hpYYJQRjQy-oHxUS7IonIA?view
* Details on what this move may mean for you can be found here
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/27U6YT73556KYW2RIFJO6J2HYMYVP22U/
* If an application is not working correctly at all, please check this
list https://hackmd.io/hpYYJQRjQy-oHxUS7IonIA?view before opening a
ticket to make sure its not listed as being moved. If it is being
moved, please wait a day or two, then try again.
* Similarly, please be patient when opening tickets for service issues
in general as we have now reached the critical point in this move and
all of our sys-admins and wider teams will be assisting in the
successful bringup of the reduced Fedora service and facilitation of
the final hardware shipment and move.
* Most recent update to devel-announce is here
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/5DNRZ4OUUNGSUJONQLEXXP3CKME43SCE/

AAA Replacement

* User agreements for both CentOS and Fedora accounts are nearly
complete. We will be able to test this in more detail once staging has
been reinstalled (est July 25th due to colo move)
* Fasjson now supports search feature
* App migreations work still ongoing
* Spam detection service is being investigated and scoped for Q3 work
* Please feel free to check out the team kanban board for more
information on the features the team are working on and have already
completed here https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6

Mbbox

* Project Dashboard here https://github.com/fedora-infra/mbbox/projects/1
* Tasks completed in the project currently
* MBBox handover to CentOS Stream
* The only thing that remains is putting the operator in the
public operator registry which is pending Stream team feedback
* MBox shared CRD is done
* Deployment guide - https://mbbox-operator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
* Blog post published - check it out here
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/mbbox-module-building-in-a-box/

Gitforge

We are still discussing technical aspects of the project and these are
tracked here:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217350
Planning a date in late August for an AMA session with GitLab that
will be run through IRC for any questions the Fedora and CentOS
communities may have to ask direct.
We will keep you up to date with the developments as and when we have
information to share and thank you again for your patience.

CentOS Updates

CentOS

* New website went live (https://www.centos.org)
* A new AWS CDN setup for Stream composes
(https://composes.centos.org) is being worked on with a goal to have
the latest stream artifacts to be publicly available and at faster
speed than through normal mirror.centos.org cdn (and/or external
mirrors)

Centos Other

* CentOS CI began onboarding Fedora CI, CoreOS CI and Fedora CoreOS as
tenants this week
* Work going well and stable!

CentOS Stream

* RealTime for Stream is released!
* The team are also working on more module builds for Stream

As always, feedback is welcome, and we will continue to look at ways
to improve the delivery and readability of this weekly report.

Have a great week ahead!

Aoife

Source: https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view

[Video] CentOS Buildsystems and infrastructure

Tuesday , 30, June 2020 Rich Bowen Video Leave a comment

(A presentation from Red Hat Summit)

There's a lot of work behind the scenes to support the CentOS community. In this presentation, we'll learn a little about CentOS community buildsystems and infrastructure.

CPE Weekly: 2020-06-28

Monday , 29, June 2020 Aoife Moloney Uncategorized Leave a comment

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: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/

## General Project Updates

The CPE team have finished our Quarterly Planning for Q3, July -
September, and will begin work on the following projects starting from
Monday 5th July:
* Data Centre Move - Final Works
* CentOS Stream Phase 3
* Noggin Phase 3
* Packager Workflow Healthcare
* Fedora Messaging Schemas

Details of the above projects, and of projects currently in progress,
done and what projects are in our backlog, can be found on our taiga
board per project card:
https://tree.taiga.io/project/amoloney1-cpe-team-projects/kanban?epic=null

We also have an updated initiative timetable for briefing in new
projects to our team & key dates
here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/time_tables/
*Note: Initiatives are large pieces of work that require a team of
people and weeks/months to complete. Please continue to open tickets
in the normal way for bugs, issues, etc.

CPE Product Owner Office Hours

#fedora-meeting-1

* Weekly on Thursdays @ 1300 UTC on #fedora-meeting-1
* Meeting log from 2020-06-25:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/cpe_project_owner_office_hours/cpe_project_owner_office_hours.2020-06-25-13.01.log.html
* Next Meeting: 2020-07-02

#centos-meeting

* Every second Tuesday @ 1500 UTC on #centos-meeting
* Meeting log from 2020-06-23:
https://www.centos.org/minutes/2020/June/centos-meeting.2020-06-23-15.00.log.html
* Next Meeting: 2020-07-07

Fedora Updates

Data Centre Move

* We are now officially operating under reduced Fedora services until
est 28th July to facilitate the final shipment of hardware to the new
data centre.
* Please View project card on taiga for builder - staging - remaining
app bringup dates here
https://tree.taiga.io/project/amoloney1-cpe-team-projects/us/42?kanban-status=2139945
* A list of affected services is available here
https://hackmd.io/hpYYJQRjQy-oHxUS7IonIA?view
* Details on what this move may mean for you can be found here
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/27U6YT73556KYW2RIFJO6J2HYMYVP22U/
* If an application is not working correctly at all, please check this
list https://hackmd.io/hpYYJQRjQy-oHxUS7IonIA?view before opening a
ticket to make sure its not listed as being moved. If it is being
moved, please wait a day or two, then try again.
* Similarly, please be patient when opening tickets for service issues
in general as we have now reached the critical point in this move and
all of our sys-admins and wider teams will be assisting in the
successful bringup of the reduced Fedora service and facilitation of
the final hardware shipment and move.
* Most recent update to devel-announce is here
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/5DNRZ4OUUNGSUJONQLEXXP3CKME43SCE/

AAA Replacement

* The team are finishing some work on applications including
* Codebase changes to applications
* Application maintainers can use the API to look up group and
account information
* And addressing how to add a spam blocking feature
* Please feel free to check out the team kanban board for more
information on the features the team are working on and have already
completed here https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6

Mbbox

* Project Dashboard here https://github.com/fedora-infra/mbbox/projects/1
* Tasks completed in the project currently
* MBBox handover to CentOS Stream
* Mbbox has been deployed to the staging environment
* Cleaning old code from the project was done
* Deployment guide - https://mbbox-operator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
* Blog post published - check it out here
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/mbbox-module-building-in-a-box/

* Tasks expected to be complete by 3rd July
* MBox shared CRD - tests and polishing

Gitforge

We are still discussing technical aspects of the project and these are
tracked here:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217350
And are working on a date in August/September for an AMA session with
GitLab that will be run through IRC for any questions the Fedora and
CentOS communities may have to ask direct.
We will keep you up to date with the developments as and when we have
information to share and thank you for your patience.

CentOS Updates

 

CentOS

* CentOS Linux 8.2.2004 has been released
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-June/035756.html
* CentOS 7.x AMI images to land soon
* Infra Nodes are also moving
* The CentOS CPE team members are also working on a new website design
with the community, so this should be pushed soon too.

Centos Other

* Fedora CI and Noobaa tenants have been onboarded to CentOS CI infra
* The team are also looking at automation work within CI

CentOS Stream

* RealTime for Stream is built!
* The team have also finished laying out repos and are doing final
tests with the installer
* This will be pushed to the mirrors very soon so keep an eye out!

As always, feedback is welcome, and we will continue to look at ways
to improve the delivery and readability of this weekly report.

Have a great week ahead!

Aoife

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[Video] CentOS PaaS (Platform as a Service) SIG

Tuesday , 23, June 2020 Rich Bowen Video Leave a comment

(A presentation from Red Hat Summit)

The CentOS PaaS SIG builds, tests, and delivers CentOS packages for platform as a service software. In this talk, we learn specifically about the work on OKD (OpenShift Origin Kubernetes Distribution).