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November 2023 Newsletter CentOS Connect will be held February 1-2 in Brussels, right before FOSDEM. Join us for two days of presentations and meetups. The CFP for both presentations and meetups is now open. The Distributions Devroom will happen again at FOSDEM. CentOS is part of the organizing team. The CFP is open. The CentOS […]
This is a summary of the work done by the CentOS Infrastructure team. This team maintains the infrastructure for both CentOS and CentOS Stream. This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.
September 2023 Newsletter The board approved the Integration SIG to verify that products and services built on top of RHEL or CentOS Stream will continue to work on CentOS Stream and the next release of RHEL and will not break on package updates. The board approved the ISA SIG to quantify the potential benefits of […]
The recording of the August CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: After much discussion, the wiki has been archived. There was considerable discussion about improvements to be […]
This report covers work that happened between April 4th 2023 and August 31st 2023. For previous work, see the 2023Q1 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the SIG gained four new members (Raymond Colebaugh, […]
The CentOS ISA SIG was created to have a place to experiment with architecture baselines, compiler optimizations, and other optimization techniques that could potentially benefit users of newer hardware on real-world workloads. We’ve been up and running for a while now, so we thought it would be interesting to describe what we’ve done, how it […]
The recording of the August CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: We got an update on the status of trusting SIGs for secureboot (Issue 67). We discussed […]
This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the CPE Team. Each quarter CPE Team together with CentOS and Fedora community representatives choose initiatives that will be being worked on in this quarter. The CPE Team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on chosen initiatives + day to […]
Growing a community and making it easier for folks to contribute is a critical element of success. We are excited by the interest in working with the CentOS project. Since Spring 2023, the CentOS Board and members of the community have been working on a set of guidelines to help define what success means for […]
May 2023 Newsletter The next CentOS Connect will be colocated at Flock on August 2. Watch the website or social media for CFP and registration details. The CentOS project has started a podcast called Connections, where we talk to interesting people doing interesting things across the CentOS ecosystem. For our first episode, we talked to […]