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forums + portal for {lang}.centos.org sites
by Karanbir Singh 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hi, Earlier in the evening today Ralph, Fabian and I had a chat about the present state of the language subsites. This email sort of summarises the main issue ( s/w ). We seem to have run into a slight technical hitch with punbb/fluxbb. They dont support LDAP as a backend. And we had decided a few months back that all new rollouts must have ldap backend so we can rollin CentOS-DS / openldap based backend. So we need to look at alternatives, and since the primary focus of these international sites is going be forums : Here is a shortlist ( if there is anything else that people are aware of, please add to this list ) - phpBB - SMF - Fudforum - phorum - fluxbb Requirements: - Must be able to scale ( couple of hundred thousand msgs ) - Must be able to handle ldap auth ( if it cant, whats involved in writing the ldap-auth portion ) - Must address the specific requirements raised by the present www.centos.org forum users ( Can you please fill this section in ? ) - Must support all languages we need ( pure utf8 support would be good ) - Secure - Skin'able Nice to have: - Capable of running multiple instances from a single deployment - responsive community :D Things we will need to do: - Decide on what s/w to use. - Give the ArtWork people enough time to get the look & feel sorted. - Migrate newbb forums from www.centos.org to $system ( hey, english is a language too :D ). - Migrate fr.centos.org into the final s/w - setup {de/es/ja/it/pt_br}.centos.org Actions: Ralph and Fabian are going to work on setting up a test ldap server, once that is online we will then start by installing into our test-vm-farm the various s/w to eval them. If anyone would like to help, please feel free to jump right in. I'll setup a wiki page for this issue, which might be a good place to track progress. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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CentOS 7 (2009) in progress
by Johnny Hughes 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

OK all .. RHEL 7.9 source code updated today. I am currently working to start the build of CentOS 7 based on that [CentOS 7 (2009) ]. Currently, we need to bootstrap and then build llvm-toolset-9.0 and rust-toolset-1.41 as some of the released packages need those toolsets. I also need to check devtoolset-7 and devtoolset-8 and see if we need any updates to pacakges there before we start the main build .. and I need to see of any of the packages need devtoolset-9. Once we have all those prerequisites completed, I can start the main builds. The goal, as usual, is to get the CR repo populated in 7 to 10 days: https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR And the final release completed in less than 40 days. Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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EPEL-6 is End of Life in 2020-11
by Troy Dawson 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

EPEL 6 is End Of Life (EOL) on November 2020. EPEL 6 will be moved to archives in December 2020. Plan ahead now.

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unable to create an account on bugs.centos.org due to captcha
by Chris Brannon 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Hi, I've been trying to create an account on https://bugs.centos.org. I'm blind, but all I find is a visual captcha. From inspection of the HTML source for the signup page, it appears that there might be an audio captcha implemented in flash, but I don't have flash on any of my devices. I went and grabbed a copy of the mantisbt source code, to get an idea of what it was doing and to determine whether I had any other options. Mantis uses a bundled third-party library to generate those captchas. In the source tree, it's vendor/dapphp/securimage. In the latest version, at least, that library will generate an HTML 5 <audio> tag by default, with a fallback to flash. The <audio> would work just fine for me. I don't know what version of Mantis BT bugs.centos.org is running, and that's why I'm writing here. Is there any chance of an upgrade / patch to fix my issue? Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. -- Chris

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[NFVSIG] NFV SIG meeting minutes - 2020-09-23
by Alfredo Moralejo Alonso 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

============================================= #centos-meeting: NFV SIG meeting - 2020-09-23 ============================================= Meeting started by amoralej at 15:00:39 UTC. The full logs are available athttps://www.centos.org/minutes/2020/September/centos-meeting.2020-09-23-1… . Meeting summary --------------- * centos-release-nfv-openvswitch built and pushed to extras repo (amoralej, 15:03:10) * NFV SIG OpenvSwitch repo can be now enabled with "dnf install centos-release-nfv-openvswitch" (amoralej, 15:04:06) * ACTION: amoralej to add new release rpm for network-services repo (amoralej, 15:05:47) * haproxy-2.2.2 tested by octavia team and pushed to network-extras-release (amoralej, 15:06:28) * octavia team confirmed it works fine in their tests (amoralej, 15:06:55) * LINK: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/744102/ (amoralej, 15:07:28) * haproxy 2.2.3 has been released upstream and included in Fedora (amoralej, 15:09:42) * FDP updated ovs and ovn packages (amoralej, 15:10:24) * LINK: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/8Base/en/Fast-Datapath/SRP… (amoralej, 15:10:39) * ACTION: any SIG member to add content about how to use SIG repos and what can be found (amoralej, 15:17:58) * LINK: https://opendev.org/openstack/tripleo-ansible/src/branch/master/tripleo_ans… (amoralej, 15:21:51) Meeting ended at 15:31:33 UTC. Action Items ------------ * amoralej to add new release rpm for network-services repo * any SIG member to add content about how to use SIG repos and what can be found Action Items, by person ----------------------- * amoralej * amoralej to add new release rpm for network-services repo * **UNASSIGNED** * any SIG member to add content about how to use SIG repos and what can be found People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * amoralej (80) * dholler (9) * centbot (4) * ykarel (3) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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[Infra] - Planned outage : cbs.centos.org
by Fabian Arrotin 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Due to a hardware replacement, we'll have to move the existing CentOS Community Build System (aka https://cbs.centos.org) to a new node. Migration is scheduled for """"Tuesday September 22nd, 6:00 am UTC time"""". You can convert to local time with $(date -d '2020-09-22 06:00 UTC') The expected "downtime" is estimated to ~30 minutes , time needed to backup/restore last postgresql dump , verify service and switch public IP to new host. Thanks for your comprehending and patience. on behalf of the Infra team, -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab

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EPEL Playground - Policy and Plans
by Troy Dawson 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

EPEL playground (currently only for epel8) has recently changed it's overall policy. That new policy can be found here. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Playground The biggest policy change is that epel-playground is not meant to be a stand-alone repository. If you use epel-playground, you are expected to have the regular epel repository enabled. Going along with that stand-alone change is the change that we will no longer be auto-building all epel builds in playground. This means that all instances of package.cfg will be removed, new epel branches will not have package.cfg in them, and requesting an epel branch will not automatically request a epel-playground branch. We will also be cleaning up (untagging) all automatically built, or old, playground packages. Not everything is happening at once. SCHEDULE: * Thursday September 24 - All package.cfg files will be removed from all epel8 dist-git branches. If you want to remove yours before then, that is fine. * Thursday October 1 - All automatically built, or old playground packages will be untagged from epel-playground. * Done (but not verified) - New epel8 branches should not have package.cfg in them. * Sometime Soon - fedpkg will be updated to not automatically request a epel-playground branch each time an epel branch is requested. https://pagure.io/fedpkg/issue/414 We appreciate all the input we've gotten from everyone. Please pass this information on wherever you feel it is needed. Troy Dawson

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An independent system-release package for CentOS Stream
by Brian Stinson 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Hi Folks, Tl;dr: centos-release and centos-release stream are now consolidated in a new package: centos-stream-release Note: Throughout this email, pay close attention to mentions of centos-release-stream (the old package) and centos-stream-release (the new package). These are different packages. Our mission with CentOS Stream is to provide an early preview of what will make it into the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To give us a jump-start on this goal at the beginning, we took CentOS Linux 8 and added some content in extra repositories, providing that preview for a select set of packages. Over the past few months we’ve been adding more and more content; you’ve likely seen more regular content updates to CentOS Stream especially now that our automated push tooling (thanks James and Siteshwar) and lots of package build and compose work (thanks Carl, Johnny, and Mohan) has kept us up to date with nightly RHEL development. To continue with our work to make CentOS Stream stand on its own, we’ve made the following changes to the CentOS Stream compose that is on its way out to the mirrors now: * centos-stream-release now provides redhat-release, centos-release, and system-release * centos-stream-repos controls the Stream yum repositories and is now exclusive to the repos from CentOS Linux What this means if you’re currently running CentOS Stream: Please perform a `dnf update` to get the latest system-release packages What this means if you’re running CentOS Linux, and would like to convert to CentOS Stream: For now, the previous method for upgrading to CentOS Stream still applies (`dnf install centos-release-stream && dnf distro-sync`). This will change in the future as we plan out our future centos-linux-release package. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more details. At the next CentOS Linux minor release we intend to make changes to match. CentOS Linux would see: * centos-linux-release will provide redhat-release, centos-release, and system-release * centos-linux-repos will control the Linux yum repositories As always if you have questions or comments, feel free to chat here on the centos-devel mailing list. On behalf of the CentOS Stream Team, -- Brian Stinson

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CentOS Linux updates released (RSS Feeds)
by Johnny Hughes 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

As you may or may not know, we do not have the ability to currently announce CentOS Linux 8 announcements on the CentOS Annonuce Mailing List. We would like to add this in the future. For now, what we do have is an RSS feed for all updates that get released. Use your favorite RSS Feed Tool (I use Thunderbird .. lots of other things available). https://feeds.centos.org/ Subscribe to the xml file you are interested in .. for example, for normal CentOS Linux 8 x86_64 arch installs .. you would subscribe to: https://feeds.centos.org/centos-8-x86_64-BaseOS.xml https://feeds.centos.org/centos-8-x86_64-AppStream.xml This is for people who have asked about what rpms are updated and how to see when new updates happen on CentOS Linux 8. But it works for all versions of CentOS (There are xml files for all repos of CentOS Linxui 6. 7, and 8 .. Also CentOS Stream). Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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CPE Weekly: 2020-09-20
by Aoife Moloney 20 Sep '20

20 Sep '20

Hi Everyone, Below is this week's CPE weekly for week ending 2020-09-20. I found that if you want to skip to the hackmd, you can use the view link https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view and then use the header bar on your left to skip to either the Fedora or CentOS updates, whichever interest you. I'll also be adjusting these updates in the coming weeks to make them a bit more direct to consume. Thanks for giving me this feedback in the CPE survey, I want to deliver value to you all, so it's great to KNOW what you find valuable first hand :) # CPE Weekly: 2020-08-14 ## General Project Updates As a reminder, below are the projects the CPE team are working on for the months of July, August & September: * Data Centre Move - Final Works * CentOS Stream Phase 3 * Noggin Phase 3 * Packager Workflow Healthcare * Fedora Messaging Schemas We have recently held our Q4 planning session and the CPE review team, Fedora, CentOS and RHEL BU have voted the following projects for action in Q4, which is the months of October November & December: * OSBS for aarch64 * Fedora-messaging schemas We are continuing to work on CentOS Stream and Noggin and took these projects as confirmed when looking at what other work our team could realistically complete in the Q4 period, given that there's both Thanksgiving and Christmas time off to consider, plus any time off our team wishes to take. The taiga cards of Noggin, CentOS Stream, OSBS for aarch64 and fedora-messaging schemas will be updated next week with what our team hopes to deliver in the next quarter on each of the projects. Our project board is here (it's just not updated properly - yet) https://tree.taiga.io/project/amoloney1-cpe-team-projects/kanban?epic=null ### Misc #### GitLab Thank you so much to everyone for adding your questions to the doc for the GitLab AMA session on Thursday 10th September, and for your attendance on the day during the call. Here is the full AMA transcript https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2020-09-10/ama_session_w… however it is a bit confusing to read so we got a few great suggestions to have dedicted topics like Message Bus and Branching, etc go out to the devel lists to discuss. I'm happy to start this next week, but I will collect the questions related to each topic and propose a cadence to send them out first to discuss, so people dont miss mails and know the week ending 2nd October will be (for example) the topic of Group Permissions - What do you think? GitLab have also agreed to answer the questions, we have asked them to do so within 2 weeks of the AMA so as soon as this is complete I will let you know so you can read through them on the hackmd link. The link is here where we asked you to contribute your questions and I will be posting answers once we have them underneath https://hackmd.io/RW8HahOeR7OJPON1dwuo3w I really appreciate your involvement with this as we begin to dig deeper into how this might play out next year and what way it should for everyone's benefit. ## Project Updates *The below updates are pulled directly from our CPE team call we have every week.* ## CentOS Updates ### CentOS * Deployed new 4.5.9 openshift cluster for Stream * The team provisioned EC2 infra for team responsible for registry.centos.org (we don’t maintain it, so just providing infra, like Fedora does for Copr) * They also migrated a bunch of nodes to the new Ansible CI inventory ### CentOS Stream * Using Openshift cluster for engineering work and will be using it to deploy & test mbbox in our infra * Scoping and refining work for October November & December ## Fedora ### General * 6 of 8 Beta-blockers have fixes for F33 beta * New release of fedscm_admin * FMW mac and windows binaries are signed ### Staging Environment * About 70% done installing vm’s (27 left out of 88) * Still need to bring up aarch64/armv7/ppc64le builders * Databases need syncing ### AAA Replacement * The team are working on testing Ipsilon in Staging and adding OpenID Connect Capability * they are also testing fas2ipa migration script in tiny-stage and improve it * Add Noggin to tiny-stage environment and test * The teams kanban board where they track their work can be found here https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6 ### Fedora Messaging Schemas * This project is on hold until Noggin completes. * It will be resumed around December timeframe and is part of our Q4 workload to complete * There is a list of applications that require messaging schemas can be found here https://hackmd.io/@nilsph/H1i8CAbkP/edit * There is a readme which contains documentation on messaging schemas, a cookie-cutter template to create the schema and a definition of Done for writing a schemas https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedora-messaging-schemas-issues * The board they are working from can be viewed here https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/7 ### Packager Workflow Healthcare * The team have been working on more improvements and fixes to the monitor-gating * These improvements have led to * Finding a bug in our testing script * Improved log messages * We actually caught a problem! :) * The data the team have been reviewing have been from April - July and have already discovered that so far it looks like Pagure, koji and bodhi work well * We see some intermittent problems, but nothing too big, mostly only spikes in runtime * Fedora CI still looks like a POC, but functional * Our test-script hitting timeouts/failing 10% of the time * Gating (greenwave/resultsdb/waiverdb) looks functional, but relies on CI and doesn't have as much packages going through the workflow * A more formal report will be published soon as part of the project deliverable so keep an eye on their work! * The teams work is being tracked here https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/cpe-cicd/kanban ## Team Info ### Changes to CPE Product Owner Office Hours Following the feedback received in the CPE survey, I will be reducing my IRC office hours to once per month. #### #fedora-meeting-1 * Next Meeting: 2020-10-15 @ 1300 UTC on #fedora-meeting-1 #### #centos-meeting * Next Meeting: 2020-10-13 @ 1500 UTC on #centos-meeting ## 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 week! Aoife Source: https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view -- Aoife Moloney Product Owner Community Platform Engineering Team Red Hat EMEA Communications House Cork Road Waterford

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