After evaluating over 300 user stories from multiple stakeholders we have aligned on a decision for the Gitforge that CPE will operate for the coming years. We are opting for Gitlab for our dist git and project hosting and will continue to run pagure.io with community assistance. Analysis and recommendation: A lot of comments and […]
Over the past few weeks we've gotten questions on various forums - email, Twitter, IRC, and so on - about why there are no mentions of CentOS 8 updates, or CentOS Stream updates, on the centos-announce mailing list. For those not familiar, centos-announce is were we tell you about security and bugfix updates that have […]
CPE - Community Platform Engineering - is the engineering group within Red Hat which does a lot of the behind-the-scenes work that makes the CentOS and Fedora projects possible. CentOS Stream Project Update 2020-02-28 We would like to welcome you all to our first blog update on the CentOS Stream initiative. Over the course of […]
On 2020-02-12 the CentOS Board of Directors met and discussed several ongoing efforts across the Project. The opening discussion was around the new work to evolve the project logo and branding identity being conducted in open channels. Overall the Directors really liked the direction the effort is going and were quite pleased with the open […]
Due to the change in the status of Red Hat Summit, we have made the decision to postpone the CentOS Dojo at Facebook to a later date. Many of our potential speakers, as well as many of our attendees, had travel plans that were dependent on attendance at Red Hat Summit, and without that event […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, For the past several months, the focus has been on FOSDEM, as usual this time of year. Now that FOSDEM is behind us, it's time to turn our attention to the upcoming Dojo at Facebook, and Red Hat Summit. We'd love to see you at one of these events. (or both!) The […]
At the end of each CentOS Dojo we have an attendee survey. While these never have the response rate I'd like, they do produce interesting data that help us improve future events. Here's the results from the survey from the Dojo in Brussels, 2020 Q1: I use CentOS for ... 17 responses76.5% Running services at […]
We will be holding a CentOS Dojo at Facebook, Menlo Park, (San Francisco area) on April 24th. This is the Friday immediately before Red Hat Summit, so you can tack a few extra days on the front of your Summit trip and see how CentOS is used at Facebook. Details of the event are available […]
Do Directors have any questions or concerns about the process being followed to update the CentOS Project logo? Full story in this blog post by Tuomas Kuosmanen; https://blog.centos.org/2020/01/updating-the-centos-logo-and-visual-style/ Specific design concerns should be handled on centos-devel or in the design repo discussion. Having a face-to-face Board and/or leadership meeting in or near Paris in Summer […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, After a slowdown over the past few months, the year is off to a busy start. I'm getting the newsletter out a little later than usual, due to having spent last week in Brussels, at FOSDEM. More about this below. Special thanks go to Aman Gupta, who stepped up to help with […]