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CentOS website pointing at old twitter account.
by Philip Wyett 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Hi all, A trivial one. The project website is still pointing at old twitter account. git diff attached to resolve. Regards Phil -- *** Playing the game for the games own sake. *** WWW: https://kathenas.org Twitter: @kathenasorg Instagram: @kathenasorg IRC: kathenas GPG: 724AA9B52F024C8B

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Volunteer(s) wanted to answer questions on Freenode
by Rich Bowen 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

As you know, several weeks ago we made the choice to move our main IRC presence from Freenode to Libera.chat due to some changes in the management of the Freenode network. You can, of course, find details about that elsewhere. Meanwhile, due to the name recognition of Freenode, people continue to show up every day on #centos@Freenode to ask questions, and are met with silence, because the experts have moved over to Libera. Those users are therefore not getting their questions answered. The trouble is, Freenode has a policy that we cannot put the new channel location (ie, irc.Libera.chat) in the /topic, and attempts to redirect those people to Libera tend to get people scolded or kicked off channel, which further worsens these users' experience. So ... all that to say ... if you are able to answer beginner-to-intermediate CentOS questions, and are able/willing to hang out on the #centos channel on freenode.net, your presence would be welcome. Network staff have confirmed that it's ok to send people to Libera.chat when we're unable to provide answers, but they would like to attempt rebuild an expert community there. I'm hesitantly willing to assume, for the moment, that this is in good faith - there are, as far as I can tell, some good staff members left there, and, after all, this is about helping users.

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Can CentOS Stream 8 Devel repo be populated
by Troy Dawson 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Back when the CentOS 8 Devel repo[1] was originally introduced, the CentOS Stream 8 Devel repo[2] was kept empty. Now that CentOS 8 is going away, and we are expected to develop on CentOS Stream 8, could we please get CentOS Stream 8 Devel populated with the same packages it once had. I know there is an initiative for all the missing -devel packages to appear somewhere at sometime. But here is my problem. I'm trying to get KDE rebuilt for CentOS Stream 8 due to the updated qt5 that is now in Stream. plasma-nm, a fairly important piece of KDE, requires mobile-broadband-provider-info-devel which is in the Devel repo. >From what I see, the fastest way to get mobile-broadband-provider-info-devel somewhere that I can consume it on Stream is via the Devel repo. Thus my question. Can we get CentOS Stream 8 Devel populated with whatever is in the regular Devel repo. Thanks Troy Dawson [1] - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/Devel/x86_64/os/Packages/ [2] - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/Devel/x86_64/os/Packages/

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[Artwork] CentOS Stream logo
by Rich Bowen 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Hi, Artwork folks (and everyone else!) Some people within Red Hat have a need/desire for a CentOS Stream logo which can be used to distinguish CentOS Linux from CentOS Stream for some messaging. They have proposed the attached for this purpose. There were, in fact, several other proposed ideas, too, and I have pointed them to https://git.centos.org/centos/Artwork/issue/1 to continue that part of the conversation, as many of them involved changes to the core CentOS logo, which is, of course, a much larger conversation. Are there any objections from the Artwork SIG to using the proposed image? I think maybe it's not *strictly* compliant with our brand guidelines. Any thoughts here?

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Wordpress theme: Call for volunteer(s)
by Rich Bowen 20 Jun '21

20 Jun '21

If you are adept at designing Wordpress themes, or adapting existing ones, I am looking for you. While there's nothing wrong with our existing blog theme, it's time to freshen it up, and possibly incorporate some of the CentOS 8 imagery and bring it into the same style family as the main centos.org website. If you're able and willing to work on this, please let me know. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen: CentOS Community Manager rbowen(a)redhat.com @rbowen // @CentOSProject 1 859 351 9166

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[NFV SIG] NFV SIG meeting minutes - 2020-06-16
by Alfredo Moralejo Alonso 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

============================================= #centos-meeting: NFV SIG meeting - 2020-06-16 ============================================= Meeting started by amoralej at 15:07:50 UTC. The full logs are available athttps://www.centos.org/minutes/2021/June/centos-meeting.2021-06-16-15.07.… . Meeting summary --------------- * status of OpenvSwitch and OVN 2.15 (amoralej, 15:11:22) * ovn-2021 builds are available for CentOS Stream 8 in official mirrors no (amoralej, 15:11:52) * RDO is moving to openvswitch2.15 and ovn-2021 in Xena release https://review.rdoproject.org/r/c/rdoinfo/+/33919 (amoralej, 15:12:33) Meeting ended at 15:35:31 UTC. Action Items ------------ Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * amoralej (38) * dholler (14) * centbot (3) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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CentOS Board welcomes new directors
by Rich Bowen 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

The CentOS Board of Directors is delighted to welcome two new directors - Davide Cavalca and Josh Boyer - to the Board. Please join us in welcoming them, and thanking them for their willingness to dedicate some of their time to the endeavor of steering the CentOS Project. Once again, we thank outgoing directors Karsten Wade and Carl Trieloff for their years of service.

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Purpose of composes.centso.org?
by redbaronbrowser 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

I am curious about composes.centos.org and it's intended use case or guidance on what it should/can be used for. If it is reasonable, I would like to try to write a dnf plugin to simplify using it for package rollbacks. Is someone else already working on this? Is there a better way to go about doing this? Ultimately, I would like it so when submitting a bug about a regression, it is easy for the user to specify between what compose dates the regression first appeared.

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repomd.xml.asc outdated?
by Leon Fauster 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

JFYI: LANG=C yum update --noplugins ... Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': repomd.xml GPG signature verification error: Bad GPG signature http://mirror.centos.org/centos-8/8/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/ shows repomd.xml 2021-03-16 15:43 repomd.xml.asc 2021-03-03 00:29 -- Leon

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RFC: kmods SIG Proposal
by Peter Georg 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Dear all, I'd like to propose a SIG for CentOS Stream. Please see the proposal below. Note: In case anyone has a better suggestion for a name, please let me know. I'm really terrible at naming things. And sorry in advance for any spelling or grammar mistakes (I'm not a native english speaker). For everyone following the previously posted "RFC: Stream Kernel SIG Proposal": The goal of the "kmods" SIG proposed here has previously been proposed to be added to a potential "Stream Kernel SIG" as a fifth goal. However it seems to make sense to split the various different goals into seperate SIGs. Disclaimer: I used the Hyperscale SIG description (https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Hyperscale) as a template. I hope that's OK. Best, Peter Proposal: = kmods SIG = == Goals == The kmods SIG will focus on providing kernel modules currently not available in CentOS Stream. == Status == Proposed: RFC and looking for a sponsoring Governing Board member == What's in scope == This SIG is a good place for any kernel module that is beneficial to CentOS Stream, but cannot be directly contributed to any of the involved upstream projects. These kernel modules may be divided in three categories: === Restore support for deprecated devices === The CentOS Stream kernel includes several kernel modules for which the list of supported devices has been limited by Red Hat. This SIG aims to provide versions of these kernel modules with restored support for as many deprecated and removed devices as possible. A close collaboration with the kernel-plus developers is desired for these kernel modules. === In-kernel modules not enabled for CentOS Stream === Many in-kernel modules are simply disabled for the CentOS Stream kernel. This may either be due to drivers being deprecated and removed compared to older CentOS major releases or never being enabled in the first place. This SIG aims to provide these in-kernel drivers as external kernel modules to enable CentOS Stream running on a broader range of available hardware and provide other beneficial functionality. A close collaboration with the kernel-plus developers is desired for these kernel modules. In addition it is desired to work with upstream to get any valuable kernel modules directly into the CentOS Stream kernel. === Third-party external kernel modules === This SIG also aims to provide third-party kernel modules for CentOS Stream not (yet) available in upstream kernel. == What's not in scope == Anything that can be contributed directly to any of the involved upstream projects is not in scope. This includes, but is not limited to: * New user space packages: These should be submitted to Fedora/EPEL * Support for new architectures currently not supported by CentOS Stream * Third-party kernel modules with non compatible license == Roadmap == * Provide packages for in-kernel modules with restored support for deprecated devices * Provide packages for in-kernel modules that have been supported in older CentOS major releases * Provide packages for further beneficial kernel modules requested by the community == Resources == TBD == Communication == The SIG uses the [[https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel|centos-devel]] mailing list for coordination and communication. TBD: Add note about regular meetings once established. == Membership == The current set of members is: ##begin-members * ... ##end-members The SIG is co-chaired by ... and .... Everybody is welcome to join and contribute to the SIG. Membership can be requested by asking on the [[https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel|centos-devel]] mailing list. Any current member can raise objections and request a simple majority vote on membership applications. SIG members are expected to actively contribute or otherwise remain engaged with the project. Stale members may be removed by a simple majority vote after six months of inactivity. The SIG is co-chaired by two equal chairpersons elected by SIG members for one year. Each chairperson is elected individually using a plurality vote.

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