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 * We are tracking our progress here (nothing new added yet, fyi) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Git_forge_update * We are still doing a technical deep-dive with our own team on […]
You may have seen the emails from Aoife about the work the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) team is doing around authentication tooling, and what that might mean for CentOS. Here’s a brief explainer for what’s happening. The authentication software we use for SIGs (FAS or Fedora Account System) and a few other bits around the […]
We are very pleased to announce the latest release in the CentOS 7 series. The full release announcements may be seen on the centos-devel mailing list: Release for CentOS Linux 7 (2003) on the x86_64 Architecture Release for CentOS Linux 7 (2003) on armhfp aarch64 i386 ppc64 ppc64le and power9 These releases were made possible […]
Today the CentOS Project is rolling out a comprehensive licensing policy to document how licensing has been conducted normally in the Project, along with filling gaps that are crucial for being a contributor project. Your feedback and questions are welcome on the centos-devel mailing list. Please read the following for more detail and background. One […]
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 […]
The CentOS community, along with the Governing Board, is pleased to welcome two new members to the Board. Effective 8th April 2020, Thomas Oulevey and Patrick Riehecky will be joining the project leadership. (See also KB's announcement on the centos-devel mailing list.) I spoke with Karsten Wade, who is a board member, about how the […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, I hope you are all well. I know that this is a very difficult time for all of you, and that you likely have other things on your mind than CentOS, so I'll try to make it interesting this month. In this edition: News Releases and updates Events SIG reports News We […]
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 […]