hi everybody,
I want to ask devel about Openstack and/or cloud SIG in near future with
regards to Centos 8. Is there any future for it in Centos 8 and if yes
then, are there any scheduled releases perhaps?
many thanks, L.
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title: CPE Weekly status email
tags: CPE Weekly, email
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# CPE Weekly: 2020-02-21
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 reports to the
CentOS and Fedora communities about the general tasks and work being
done. Also for better communication between our groups we have
created #redhat-cpe on Freenode IRC! Please feel free to catch us
there, a mail has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists
with context here.
## Fedora Updates
### Data Centre Move
* The F32 Schedule Key has been updated to include data centre move
implications: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-key-tasks.html
* The F32 Infrastructure has also been updated to include them too:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-infrastructure-tasks.html
* If you have an instance in the fedora private openstack cloud that,
please remove it, or lose it! This instance will be turned off on
2020-02-27. You have been warned! :)
### AAA Replacement
* I forgot **all** the links last week - my bad! So here is the
corrected AAA project work - the team are using a kanban board in
GitHub, not Jira for their work and their blog post to the Fedora
Community Blog is linked.
* The team made great progress in sprint 3, completing over 10
tickets! Check out their kanban board here:
https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6
* The blog post can also be viewed here:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/aaa-fas-replacement-project-update/
* The team meet on Jitsi Monday-Thursday @ 0915-0945 UTC to talk about
tickets they are working on (and to see each other :) ) and if you
wish to join, the link is here:
https://meet.jit.si/FedoraInfraAAAStandups
* They also update the #fedora-aaa channel on IRC with updates and
chat regularly about the project here too so feel free to join,
contribute or just observe!
### CI/CD
* The team has managed to get its monitor-gating script deployed and
running on openshift in staging and it has already identified an issue
with the packager workflow there (in this case in waiverdb, a ticket
has been opened upstream to investigate it).
* The team wrote a document listing all the ideas they
investigated/thought about for dropping changelog and release fields
from spec file
* The team made a decision on the recommended approach that will be
submitted to the devel list for further consideration and inputs.
### Sustaining Team
* The ongoings of these ongoings, are ongoing :)
* Infra and Releng tickets are reviewed daily (Mon-Fri) in
#fedora-admin at 1900UTC.
* * Packit integration in the-new-hotness
https://github.com/packit-service/packit/issues/689
* * Jms-messaging-plugin reviews
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/169https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/168https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/162
* * Compose-tracker now track the time a compose takes, more info here
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org…
## Docs
### Misc Updates
### Git Forge Requirements
* Thank you for your engagement on our Git Forge requirements emails.
We have received (a lot of) content from (a lot of) sources both
internally and externally.
* A decision around the Git Forge is still some time away yet, as this
decision impacts so many, but we will keep you up to date on where we
are in the process on a weekly basis via this email blast.
* Right now we are compiling requirements we have received into a
complete set to be able to move to a technical comparison of services
between Pagure vs GitHub vs GitLab.
* We expect to have the requirements set done by March 11th and will
make the requirements available to view as soon as they are all
accounted for.
* If our dates change, good or bad, we will keep you updated and thank
you for your patience and understanding as always!
## CentOS Updates
### CentOS
* Tycho module has been unblocked which was needed for jmc
* Data is being moved for CentOS Infra and trying a new solution for
backups https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-centos-backup/commit/e32fb06b74c506c…
* VDO was deployed for storage duplication and compression
* CentOS CI is stable overall with an updated fedora image and
python-tox fix, which is allowing the AAA/Securitas team move forward
with integrating CentOS account auth in this project too.
### CentOS Stream
* The packit team are trying out the dev/staging instances of git.centos.org
* We have been receiving regular updates over the last two days
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
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Aoife Moloney
Product Owner
Community Platform Engineering Team
Red Hat EMEA
Communications House
Cork Road
Waterford
For the past two years, I've hosted a CentOS Dojo at DevConf.US in
Boston. Each time it has been a struggle to find speakers, and then we
had pretty poor attendance.
This year, DevConf.US (CFP is now open!) has moved away from Boston
University, to the Sheraton in Framingham.
My question to this audience is whether it's worth our time trying to
put together a Dojo to be held on the Tuesday of that event - September
22nd - at that same location.
I would need roughly 10 speakers, and about 75 attendees, to make it
worthwhile to do this.
Please do let me know, either on-list or off-list, if you think you'd be
interested in either speaking or attending.
For those that don't know, a Dojo is a one-day event featuring technical
content from anywhere in the CentOS ecosystem. Details here:
https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo
Thanks!
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Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com
@CentOSProject // @rbowen
859 351 9166
I need keys created for a Messaging Sig. I filled request back in Oct. '19,
but it is still outstanding. Can someone assist in creating this key?
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16198
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Regards, Irina.
Hi All!
We have been dealing with a memory leak in the kernel for IKEv2 and IPSec
connections relating to a memory leak in xfrm support on both el8 and el7.
The symptom of this issue is that memory will continue allocating in slab
over time making a box oom after too many connections.
As per some external discussions I am sending the patch + bug report on to
this list. It has already been accepted into upstream kernels (4.19
included) and is a pretty straight forward backport. I have tested and
installed this on a few centos8 systems to validate that this does indeed
solve the memory leak issue.
rbz# 1780470
# CPE Weekly: 2020-02-14
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 reports to the
CentOS and Fedora communities about the general tasks and work being
done. Also for better communication between our groups we have
created #redhat-cpe on Freenode IRC! Please feel free to catch us
there, a mail has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists
with context here.
## CentOS Updates
### CentOS
* Tuning/adding more mirrorlist servers due to EC2/AWS change from last week
* Updates are really faster now for CentOS users in AWS/EC2 (more
than 100TiB of updated packages served internally with a 98.33% ratio
served from cache, so faster than ever)
* Moving data from CentOs Infra and switching to a new solution for
backup for infra:
* https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-centos-backup/
* https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-restic
* VDO (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/ht…)
* Investigating how to incorporate CentOS auth into the new AAA solution
* We'll need proper communication plan to ask everybody to get a
FAS account when we'll migrate
### CentOS Stream
* The CPE team are collaborating with the Packit team internally to
develop a workflow for contributor patches
* We are working towards demoing a contributor patch from submission
to end for Red Hat Summit in April!
## Fedora Updates
### Data Centre Move
By June 15th 2020, dedicated Fedora servers will have moved to a new
data centre in Northern Virginia.
If you want to read more, check out our post on hackmd:
https://hackmd.io/@Ap8CkTlpSfmjb44UGV-kWA/rJsk7A-QL
Here are some key dates and actions we need you to know:
* On 28th Feb, the old OpenStack instance in Fedora Cloud will be retired.
* Please reach out to Kevin before 25th Feb if you need to take action
for your instance if you are an instance owner. Here is the link to
the current status: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8614
* On 13th April, the CPE team will begin to ship servers to our new
data centre - this does not affect F32 distribution or release
* From March 1st, the CPE team will begin to build the Minimum Viable
Fedora infrastructure in the new datacenter
* Between May 20th - July 1st, we will be redirecting Fedora services
to run on the 'MVF' offering to facilitate the final part of the move
and allow for re-racking and testing
* By July 1st we hope to have BAU (business as usual) for Fedora infra
### AAA Replacement
This project is replacing our old existing fas (fedora account system)
with a new freeipa based system.
* Check out our blog on the teams progress to date!
* You can also see our jira board for tickets we are working on
* And we have an IRC channel - #fedora-AAA
* We are currently working on the FreeIPA API integration and the
folks at FreeIPA have been really helpful so far to work with
### CI/CD
* The team have been trying to get a local instance of Koji running this week
* They are investigating different algorithms that could help generate
the next release if a package based on its git history.
* Monitoring-gating is being deployed in OpenShift in staging
### Sustaining Team
* The team meets daily @ 1900 UTC in #fedora-admin on IRC
* The priority work is:
** Fedora 32
** Assisting with technical debt to facilitate the colo move
** mbbox upgrading
** CentOS CI OpenShift upgrading
* The team also have a public thread on knowledge sharing,
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedorapr…
so take a look!
## Docs
* Merged https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/pull-request/175
* Merged https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/pull-request/174
* Merged https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/pull-request/173
* Merged https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/pull-request/167
* Reviewed https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/install-guide/pull-request/40
* Also work underway on CentOS 8.1 docs
### Misc Updates
* The team are also working on creating Fedora infra application map -
stay tuned for the publication soon!
* keys.fedoraproject.org has been turned off
* boot.fedoraproject.org will be retired this week
* Certs have been changed to letsencrypt for fedorahosted/fedoracommunity
* Moved Koji calls to a backend task worker in Bodhi:
https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/3061
* kdreyer's playbook repo has been integrated:
https://pagure.io/koji-vagrant/pull-request/1
* Testing dist-git repo as a submodule has been added:
https://pagure.io/koji-vagrant/pull-request/2
* Ticket in Monitor-Gating has been reviewed:
https://pagure.io/fedora-ci/monitor-gating/pull-request/8
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
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Aoife Moloney
Product Owner
Community Platform Engineering Team
Red Hat EMEA
Communications House
Cork Road
Waterford