Minutes for CentOS Board of Directors for 2021-02-10

Tuesday , 27, April 2021 Thomas Oulevey Board minutes Leave a comment

On 2021-02-10 the CentOS Board of Directors met to discuss ongoing business.

The board welcomed the Hyper Scale SIG Chair (Davide Cavalca) and new Cloud Interim SIG Chair (Amy Marrich).

A proposal to give to all SIG members a @centoproject.org email address has been approved. The new email aliases will be enabled when the new authentication system is deployed in April.

A discussion about the need for a CentOS Stream Kernel SIG around common community interests took place. Some challenges are still being discussed (secure boot, signing, kmods distribution, inter-SIG collaboration, integration of existing external projects). A communication will be sent to the centos-devel mailing list when all requirements are analysed and common ground identified.

Rich Bowen mentioned that additional Dojos will be organised during the year as it is a great way to get community feedback and improve involvement of new contributors.

The code of conduct work is on-going and the board would like to make that process completely transparent, and get help from the community when the initial draft is available. 

To conclude, as mentioned last month,  the SIG status review has been finalized and updates/recommendations sent to all active SIG.

Minutes for CentOS Board of Directors for 2021-01-13

Tuesday , 27, April 2021 Thomas Oulevey Board minutes Leave a comment

On 2021-01-13 the CentOS Board of Directors met to discuss ongoing business.

To improve transparency, the Board welcomed all Special Interest Groups' Chair, and extended the invitation to all future Board of Directors meeting.

A proposal to create a new SIG was reviewed and approved. The board welcomes the Hyperscale SIG to the family and encourages interested parties to contribute.
The common goal is to enable CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures. The SIG chair is Davide Cavalca.

A recap on all SIG status will be carried on in the next week by Rich Bowen.

Brian Exelbierd explain that Red Hat Developer program will be published as soon as they are ready. A first wave will be released during January.
Red Hat continues to analyse feedback received from all communication channels.

The board agreed to draft and enforce a Code of Conduct, based on the recent work conducted by the Fedora Project.

Code of Conduct

Monday , 19, April 2021 Rich Bowen Community Leave a comment

You may have seen, a few days ago, that the Fedora project announced a new Code of Conduct for their community.

In my role as CentOS community manager, I've also been involved in the crafting of that Code, so that we could also use it here in the CentOS project.

Yeah, I know, this is something we should have done a long time ago. But, you know what they say about the best time to plant a tree. (The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.)

As we continue to work to make all aspects of the CentOS Project more open and transparent, it is important that we create an open, welcoming community where all people, from all backgrounds, feel safe in their participation. This allows for a broader contributor pool, with more ideas and more community ownership of the resulting outcomes.

And it's just the right thing to do.

It is our intent to take the text of the Fedora CoC, and replace 'Fedora' with 'CentOS' everywhere, and propose it here. There will, of course, be other small changes to the text (Board vs Council, and so on) but not to the details of the Code itself, and how we intend to address reports. We're holding off on those edits so that our version doesn't drift from theirs, during their 2 week comment period. (Ends April 26th.)

The document is derived from the Contributor Covenant, along with work that has been ongoing in the Fedora project for some time. Note also that the Contributor Covenant is also the source material for the CoC used by the Linux kernel project.

To that end, we encourage you to engage in the discussion around the Fedora CoC, because any changes made there will influence what we end up with here. And we also encourage discussion on centos-devel, for anything that you feel is specific to our community.

CentOS Community Newsletter, April 2021 (#2104)

Tuesday , 6, April 2021 Rich Bowen Newsletter Leave a comment

Dear CentOS Community,

Thanks for joining us for another edition of our monthly newsletter. Here's what's happening in the CentOS community.

Upcoming CentOS Dojo

Yesterday we closed the Call For Presentations (CFP) for the upcoming CentOS Dojo in May, and we hope to publish the schedule of selected presentations this week. Meanwhile, you can register today for the event. Registration is free, but you will need to register to attend. The event will be online, and feature presentations about many aspects of the CentOS project, including several presentations about CentOS Stream. We look forward to seeing you there.

New AAA Infra

As you are hopefully already aware, we are in the midst of rolling out a new AAA (authentication) infrastructure, which we will share with Fedora. If you have an account on either the CentOS or Fedora account system, you should read Fabian's email (and the responses to it) on the centos-devel mailing list for details of what you need to do.

You will be hearing more about this changeover in the coming days, particularly if you are one of the people who has accounts on both projects with conflicting details (ie, same email address but different usernames, or vice versa).

CPE Update

The most recent CPE Update, which you may have seen on the centos-devel mailing list, covers most of the month of March, and contains a lot of exciting new developments, including the new AAA infrastructure (see above) and the list of priorities for the next quarter. Read the whole thing on the blog.

SIG Reports

SIGs - Special Interest Groups - are communities who are building something on top of CentOS. SIGs are expected to report quarterly on their progress, health, and opportunities for community participation.

This month we have a report from the Hyperscale SIG.

Meanwhile, the Software Collections SIG, scheduled to report this month, appears to be having a rather slow quarter.

If you're interested in running a SIG around your particular area of interest or expertise, we'd love to hear from you. Bring your proposal to the centos-devel mailing list

Updates/Releases

Errata and Enhancements Advisories

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

Errata and Security Advisories

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

Errata and Bugfix Advisories

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

Other releases

The following releases also happened during March:

Get Involved

There's a number of places where you can get involved in the CentOS Community. These are documented on the "Contribute" page in the wiki.

Ongoing efforts include the wiki itself, which has accumulated a lot of content over the past decade, much of which could stand to be freshened. If you're interested in assisting with the wiki refresh project, the best place to volunteer is on the centos-docs mailing list. The process for proposing changes to the wiki is covered in part 4 of the above-mentioned document.

This newsletter is another place where we always need help - finding stories, writing the content, translating into non-English languages, and working with community members to provide blog posts, technical howtos, or other content for publication to the blog. Please join us on the centos-promo mailing list to step up to do some of that work.

And the every-day work of answering user questions on the centos@centos.org mailing list, the forums, or IRC (#centos on Freenode) is open to anybody with knowledge, patience, and time. Just drop in and introduce yourself.

Get Gear

If you want to proclaim your love for the CentOS Project, we have two main options for obtaining CentOS Gear. Head over to the Red Hat Cool Stuff Store for CentOS shirts and hats. And HelloTux has CentOS tshirts, polo shirts, and sweatshirts!

CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2021Q1

Monday , 5, April 2021 Davide Cavalca SIG Leave a comment

This report covers work that happened between January 13th and April 2nd 2021.

Purpose

The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling.

Membership update

The SIG was established in January with six founding members (Davide Cavalca, Filipe Brandenburger, Matthew Almond, Justin Vreeland,Thomas Mackey, David Johansen). Since then, four more members have joined (Igor Raits, Neal Gompa, Anita Zhang, Michel Salim).

We welcome anybody that’s interested and willing to do work within the scope of the SIG to join and contribute. See the membership section on the wiki for the current members list and how to join.

Releases and Packages

The SIG releases packages in a main repository. Sources for these packages are maintained in c8s-sig-hyperscale branches in dist-git (example).

Packages released in main are designed to be drop-in replacements for the corresponding packages on a stock CentOS Stream 8 system. This repository can be enabled by installing the centos-release-hyperscale package.

systemd

We ship a backport of systemd 247 based on the Fedora packaging. This includes a variety of bug fixes in existing features such as timers and cgroups, as well as new properties that take advantage of the latest kernel features. You can also look forward to new knobs in the various tools and daemons to make debugging and configuration easier.

By default, this backport will boot the system using the unified cgroup hierarchy (i.e. cgroup2), in line with systemd upstream policy. This can be changed with the appropriate kernel cmdline knobs.

This systemd backport also includes a SELinux overlay module, which allows running systemd 247 on a system in enforcing mode. Nonetheless, the SELinux integration has only seen limited testing and should be considered experimental at this point.

Grep

We ship a backport of Grep 3.6 based on the Fedora packaging. Compared to the stock 3.1 version shipped with the distribution, it includes major performance improvements and several bugfixes.

iptables

The iptables package on CentOS Stream 8 ships with only the nftables backend enabled. As part of the work to enable the legacy backend as well, we have packaged legacy-enabled versions of arptables and ebtables.

MTR

We ship a backport of MTR 0.94 based on the Fedora packaging. This includes several bug fixes, notably improving reliability when running in TCP mode.

dwarves

We ship a backport of dwarves 1.20 based on the Fedora packaging. This includes several improvements to the pahole tool, notably including much better BTF support.

Meson

We ship the latest version (0.55.3 ⇒ 0.57.1) of meson and the latest version (1.8.2 ⇒ 1.10.2) of ninja-build based on the Fedora packaging. This includes many different bug fixes and improvements. We will keep updating them as new versions will get released.

Health and Activity

The SIG was approved by the CentOS board on January 13. So far we’ve been able to maintain a healthy development pace, and hope to continue doing so in the future.

Meetings

The SIG holds regular bi-weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 16:00 UTC. Meetings are logged and the minutes for past meetings are available.

The SIG also uses the #centos-hyperscale IRC channel for ad-hoc communication and work coordination, and the centos-devel mailing list for async discussions and announcements.

Conference talks

The SIG was first introduced at CentOS Dojo, FOSDEM, 2021 (recording). SIG activities were also covered as part of DevConf.cz 2021 (recording) and FOSDEM 2021 (recording).

Future SIG-related talks are planned for CentOS Dojo, May 2021 and for LISA21.

Planned work

The SIG tracks pending work as issues on our Pagure repository. Notable projects currently in flight include:

  • Setting up the experimental repository and publishing a Copy-on-Write enabled build of the packaging stack and optional support for Btrfs-based atomic updates using Micro DNF
  • Shipping up-to-date versions of libvirt backported from Fedora
  • Completing the work to publish an iptables with the legacy backend enabled
  • Engaging with the Cloud SIG to build a set of Cloud images with the Hyperscale repo and packages already baked in

Issues for the Board

We have no issues to bring to the board’s attention at this time.

CPE Weekly: 2021-03-31

Thursday , 1, April 2021 Aoife Moloney Infra Leave a comment

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the two week gap since my last report, we had a busy time in
the CPE team with the new fedora accounts deployment, our quarterly
planning cycle started for Q2 and Ireland had a bank holiday mid week
which *seemed* like a great idea at the time. Until no-one knew what
day it was for about a week!

So here I am, right at the end of Q1 with the CPE teams final weekly
report for January, February and March... two days early

If you would like to see this report and toggle to the section you are
most interested in, I would suggest visiting this link
https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view and use the header bar
on your left to skip to where you want to go!

Initiative FYI Links

CPE had our quarterly planning call last Thursday 26th March to
prioritize our project work going into Q2 (quarter 2, which is April,
May & June).
Our initiative repo quarterly boards have been updated
https://pagure.io/cpe/initiatives-proposal/boards/2021Q2
and our repo can be accessed here: https://pagure.io/cpe/initiatives-proposal
Our 2021 Quarterly Planning timetable can also be viewed here if you
are curious on when our next quarterly planning session is:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/time_tables/
And finally, details on initiative requesting/how to work with us on
new projects here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/initiatives/

Going into Q2, the CPE team will work on rpmautospec
https://pagure.io/cpe/initiatives-proposal/issue/11 and aim to deliver
this project within the months of April, May & June. We are starting
this project on Monday 12th April and will keep you posted on where
the team will track work and what IRC channel they will use for comms.

You can also expect a Q1 blog post from us in the next week or two
highlighting the work that the team delivered over the last quarter
too.

Misc

* CentOS Dojo for May 13th & 14th CFP closes on Monday 5th April so
please submit your talks asap!
https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/May2021

Project Updates

*The below updates are pulled directly from our CPE team call we have
every week.*

CentOS Updates

CentOS

* Account Migration is scheduled for next Tuesday 6th April
* Please read this important email from Fabian Arrotin on
verifying/updating your CentOS and Fedora email address
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-March/076690.html
* CentOS CI is also updating ocp.stg to 4.7.3 & will roll out to
production by the end of the week if all goes well

CentOS Stream

* Centpkg is build and available in Fedora and EPEL!
* MBS is being deployed
* ODCS is deployed
* Scripts for mass rebuild are ready
* CVE Dashboard for CentOS 8 Stream is up
* In short, lots of good things coming!

Fedora

* F34 beta is out!

* Mass reboot is scheduled for tomorrow, April 1st so please expect
some issues due to this required outage
* Final Freeze is due to start on Tuesday April 6th @ 1400 UTC - F34
schedule can be viewed here
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-34/f-34-key-tasks.html

Noggin/AAA

* Fedora Accounts is out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* There are still some corner case issues being worked through but
users should be able to access fedora services as normal. **NOTE** you
will need to reset your password if you have not already done so if
you receive an Unable to call ID or some note like that. Please
request a password reset and wait for the mail to land. Then follow
the link and reset your password.
* For any issues, please open a ticket on
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issues
* The team can be found on #fedora-aaa for discussions on IRC
* And please report any issues you find relating to the Noggin
application in the repo https://github.com/fedora-infra/noggin
**ANOTHER NOTE** Thank you so so so much to all of the members of the
fedora community and wider open source communities who assisted our
team last week when we were deploying the new system. Your help did
not go unnoticed and unappreciated and we could not have done this
work without any of you. You know who you are, and you have my and the
wider teams sincerest thanks and gratitude

Team Info

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 here for more
information: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/

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 weekend!

Aoife

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

 

CPE Weekly: 2021-03-05

Monday , 15, March 2021 Rich Bowen Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hi Everyone,

If you would like to see this report and toggle to the section you are
most interested in, I would suggest visiting this link
https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view and use the header bar
on your left to skip to where you want to go!

Initiative FYI Links

Initiatives repo here: https://pagure.io/cpe/initiatives-proposal
2021 Quarterly Planning timetable here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/time_tables/
Details on initiative requesting/how to work with us on new projects
here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/initiatives/

Misc

* CentOS Newsletter for March is out!
https://blog.centos.org/2021/03/centos-community-newsletter-march-2021-2103/
* CentOS Dojo scheduled for May 13th & 14th CFP is open, details on
event and CFP link can be found here
https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/May2021
* New community podcast is out from Red Hat Community
https://twitter.com/redhatopen/status/1367113857936809984
* Lightning Talks & some others from DevConf.cz are now uploaded!
https://www.youtube.com/c/DevConf_INFO/featured
* Check out the most recent blog post on the Fedora Code of Conduct
here https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-code-of-conduct-report-2020/

Project Updates

*The below updates are pulled directly from our CPE team call we have
every week.*

CentOS Updates

CentOS

* Legacy CentOS CI Infra Openshift 3.6 has been retired
* CentOS CI OCP clusters updated to 4.6.18

CentOS Stream

* Testing centpkg against the new buildsystem and CBS
* Developing a style guide for CentOS Stream - first draft will be in
a repo on git.centos.org to view/comment by mid-March
* Building CentOS Stream only packages, eg logos, etc for Stream 9

Fedora

* Still in Beta Freeze
* Working on progressing flatpak-indexer, its currently in staging
* Processed 100+ fedscm requests!
* In staging got pagure on dist-git working with the git user instead
of each packager having their own shell account
* Working with debuginfo-d folks to get them set up with resources to
enable it in Fedora infra

Noggin/AAA

* Reviewing dates for a planned outage in March - early estimated
dates are 18th & 19th for production migration. Formal email to follow
to all fedora lists once outage period is confirmed early next week.
* Community blog coming middle of next week on the new account system work
* The work tracker for this project can be found here
https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6
* The team use #fedora-aaa for discussions on IRC
* And please report any issues you find in the repo
https://github.com/fedora-infra/noggin

Team Info

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 here for more
information: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/

 

CentOS Online Dojo, May 13th, 14th, CfP now open

Wednesday , 3, March 2021 Rich Bowen announcement Leave a comment

TL;DR:

As promised in my email a few weeks ago, we're going to try to do online Dojos quarterly for the coming few quarters, and we're pleased to announce the first of these.

We will be holding the event May 13th and 14th, once again using the Hopin platform that we used last time. (Those of you who sent feedback about the platform may like to know that this was all passed on to Hopin, and at least some of it has been addressed since then.)

Details of the event are here: https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/May2021

More details will of course come soon, once we have the online event created.

Registration will be free.

The Call for Presentations (CfP) is now live, at forms.gle/wRa8r5ZRHrqnZ6VF6

We are looking for presentations about CentOS. This can be CentOS Linux, CentOS Stream, CentOS SIG work, any work in the CentOS community, or any project you're running on top of CentOS distributions.

Attendees of the February event specifically asked for more content about:

  • CentOS Stream
  • Koji (and similar ways of managing rpm builds)
  • Creating your own module/package in a personal repo
  • Gitlab
  • CentOS Stream contribution flow
  • FreeIPA
  • Keycloak
  • SIG updates

Please let me know if you have any further questions, and I hope to see your presentation proposals soon!

--Rich

CentOS Community Newsletter, March 2021 (#2103)

Tuesday , 2, March 2021 Rich Bowen Newsletter 1 Comment

Dear CentOS Community,

Here's a glimpse into what's happening in the CentOS community, and what's coming in the next few months.

This month in CentOS Stream

We've had a lot going on in CentOS Stream this month, here are some major things we've been working on:

- CentOS Linux Extras and CentOS Stream Extras are composed separately, that way if a SIG only ships on Stream, you can do so

- The CentOS Linux -> CentOS Stream migration instructions were shortened from  3 steps to 2 steps, check them out here:
https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/

[root@centos ~]# dnf swap centos-linux-repos centos-stream-repos
[root@centos ~]# dnf distro-sync

Carl George has provided a short screencast to demonstrate the process.

- The Stream 9 buildsystem is coming along, one architecture (s390x) is having hardware wired in very shortly

- Generated and pushed CentOS Stream 8 containers to https://quay.io/repository/centos/centos

- Kept our business as usual builds and pushes going
- Here are some interesting modules that got released recently:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-February/076528.html

Landed in CentOS Stream

The following community contributions have, so far, landed in CentOS Stream.

We appreciate your patience as we improve the contribution process, as well as the reporting around it.

DevConf.cz

The annual developers conference that is usually held in Brno, Czechia, was held online in February. The CentOS Project was featured in two presentations there.

Davide Cavalca presented on the use of CentOS Stream at Facebook.

And Brian Stinson, Tomas Tomecek, and Carl George presented on Consuming CentOS Stream.

We expect video from both of those presentations to be available within the next couple of weeks.

Special Interest Groups

Special interest groups (SIGs) are the place where communities build things on top of CentOS - whether this is software, such as the Cloud SIG or the Storage SIG, or a non-software effort, such as the Promo SIG or Artwork SIG.

SIGs are asked to report quarterly on their progress, so that you know what they're up to, and where you can get involved. We also encourage you to attend the SIG's meetings, where you can find out about the day-to-day work.

CentOS OpsTools SIG Quarterly Report

Purpose

Provide tools and documentation, recommendation and best practices for operators of large infrastructure.

Membership update

Sadly, we did not attract new volunteers to contribute to the SIGs purposes, but at the same time, we didn't lose any.

Activity

After initial euphoria setting up the SIG and getting to work, we can now observe a kind of settlement. For the next quarter, we are planning to upgrade collectd to version 5.12.

There is also an interest in investigating in loki as tool to allow multi-tenant log aggregation.

Issues for the board

Nothing to report.

Infrastructure SIG report

DONE

* Updated SIG wiki
* Updated meeting calendar - Infra SIG will meet every 2nd Monday @ 1500 UTC on #centos-meeting. Next meeting is scheduled on 1st March
* Added x2 new members giving limited access to core infrastructure machines for CentOS Stream that CentOS Infrastructure is assisting in bootstrapping.
* * Leonardo Rossetti & Mohan Boddu. Both are senior engineers at Red Hat and are heavily involved in the development of release engineering and compose building for the upcoming C9S release.
* Completed a full infrastructure-wide upgrade of the monitoring stack to latest version of Zabbix

IN PROGRESS

* Review ticket for mbox koji access
* Review ticket for registering domain name in AU
* Account merge to Fedora account auth system Noggin

TODO

* Develop criteria for infrastructure access
* Admin, there can always be more tidying and refinement on admin 🙂

Governance Documentation

Over the years, the CentOS Governance has been documented in a handful of web pages and blog posts, which has served the purpose. With greater scrutiny on our governance, we are discovering that there are assumptions and "common knowledge" which is not documented anywhere.

As a consumer community (ie, we make stuff, you use it), the governance model was perceived to be less important to clarify before now. This has resulted in some unforeseen problems and misunderstandings over the past few months. Over the coming months we are trying to address this in two ways.

We plan to take the existing governance documents, and consolidate them into more formal project bylaws.

But, also, in this process, we are asking for community input on the governance model, to identify areas where we can improve. We are already implementing more openness around the Board of Directors process, and this is just the start. By telling us how the CentOS governance could better serve you, you can help us make this step towards being a more inclusive, collaborative project.

As we move towards a more contributor model, it becomes more important to clearly document how the project governs itself, and how you are part of that model. We hope that you'll be hearing a lot more about this in the coming months. We also hope that you will engage in this process and help us continue to make the project more transparent and collaborative.

Rebuild News

As various RHEL rebuild projects start up, we're very aware that we're all part of the same family. We look forward to collaborating in any ways that make sense. And, regardless of how (or if) we end up working together, we wish these projects the best of luck and success.

The Rocky Linux project is sending out monthly community updates. The latest edition can be seen here.

And the Alma Linux project has just announced the release candidate (R.C.) for their 8.3 release.

Note: We've highlighted two rebuild projects here, but we're not trying to pick favorites. We're just mentioning the ones that have been brought to our attention. If you're running a RHEL rebuild project, and want us to link to your news in future newsletters, please get in touch with Rich, at rbowen@centosproject.org, or join us on the centos-promo mailing list.

Other Community News

If you have any community news, big or small, please do let us know, on the centos-promo list.

The Foreman Project tweeted about a presentation around managing CentOS Stream hosts:

Phil wrote this excellent article about the merits of CentOS Stream. We think it's worth your time to read. https://medium.com/swlh/centos-stream-why-its-awesome-5c45d944fb22

Get Involved

In addition to the usual avenues for getting involved in The CentOS Project, I would like to draw attention to two specific opportunities.

First, this newsletter: If you would like to be involved in the process of putting this together each month, come join us on the centos-promo mailing list. We start drafting the next month's newsletter as soon as the last one "goes to press", and the more help we can get, the broader vision of the community we can present.

Second, after the recent CentOS Dojo, we committed to doing a quarterly online Dojo until such time as we can travel again (and possibly after that!). We need help in finding and scheduling the content, and promoting the event. Again, fo rthis, join us on the centos-promo mailing list, where that work will be happening.

Get Gear

If you want to proclaim your love for the CentOS Project, we have two main options for obtaining CentOS Gear. Head over to the Red Hat Cool Stuff Store for CentOS shirts and hats. And HelloTux has CentOS tshirts, polo shirts, and sweatshirts!

Until next time ...

Thanks for reading this far, and thanks for being part of the CentOS community!

CPE Weekly Report: 2021-02-26

Friday , 26, February 2021 Aoife Moloney Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hi Everyone,

If you would like to see this report and toggle to the section you are
most interested in, I would suggest visiting this link
https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view and use the header bar
on your left to skip to where you want to go!

Initiative FYI Links

Initiatives repo here: https://pagure.io/cpe/initiatives-proposal
2021 Quarterly Planning timetable here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/time_tables/ so you know when
I need it in by to review it.
Details on initiative requesting/how to work with us on new projects
here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/initiatives/

Misc

I hope you all enjoyed DevConf.cz last week! There were some great
talks and I am looking forward to catching up on the ones I
unfortunately missed when they are posted in a few weeks!
Also if you missed the CentOS Dojo at FOSDEM, you can watch all talks
on the CentOS YouTube channel here
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuRtbOXpVDjC7RkMYSy-gk47s5vZyKPbt

Project Updates

*The below updates are pulled directly from our CPE team call we have
every week.*

CentOS Updates

CentOS

* CentOS CI updated OCP to 4.6.17
* Rolled out security fixes to ci.centos.org Jenkins and cert update

CentOS Stream

* Documentation updated on the shortened CentOS Linux -> CentOS Stream
conversion, see the demo here https://asciinema.org/a/393875
* CentOS Extras is now separately delivered for Stream and Linux
* CentOS Stream 8 container images are published now to quay.io

Fedora

* We are now in F34 freeze! All changes to frozen hosts take 2 +1s
* Bodhi updates-testing activated for F34
* Fedscm-admin work started on default branches
* Openh264 repos are hosted on Cisco CDN

Noggin/AAA

* User migration script has been successfully re-run
* Lots of docs updates - check out the docs section for more
information https://noggin-aaa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
* PR opened for changes to docs to add pkinit to docs to allow
applicable certs be shipped for packages but it seems fedora-packager
Fedora package has to be built with the change applied
https://pagure.io/fedora-packager/pull-request/166
* If you are experiencing any issues with your application
authenticating with Noggin, please reach out to the team on IRC
channel #fedora-aaa
* The work tracker for this project can be found here
https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6
* And please report any issues you find in the repo
https://github.com/fedora-infra/noggin

Team Info

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 here for more
information: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/

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 weekend!

Aoife

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