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Connect at FOSDEM
by Shaun McCance 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Going to FOSDEM? Here are three things to know: 1) We will have a CentOS Connect on February 3, the Friday before FOSDEM. I'm waiting on a required legal review of the contract before the full announcement. But I know people are already making travel plans, so please plan on the extra day. 2) There will be a Distributions Devroom at FOSDEM on Sunday. I'm one of the organizers. The CFP will land soon. 3) I'm considering a web+docs hackfest in Brussels, probably just a single day, unless people really want more. For me, it would have to happen the Monday after FOSDEM. We have a lot of web and docs revamp stuff in the air. We won't do it all, but we can make a concrete plan and take home action items. Let me know if you're interested. Let me know if you're interested in attending. Thanks, Shaun

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Alternative Images SIG kickoff
by Troy Dawson 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

The CentOS Alternative Images SIG is finally official.[1] Time to get things rolling. I have setup an IRC channel #centos-alt-images and a pagure group[2], along with a sig repo[3] to track issues and documentation. I have requested a weekly meeting[4], Tuesdays at 1600 UTC on #centos-meeting. It is currently weekly, but as things get setup we'll slow that down to bi-weekly and possibly monthly. We can also work on a better time, but for now, that's what we have. Everybody is welcome to join and contribute to the SIG. The current set of members is: * Troy Dawson * Neal Gompa * Robby Callicotte * Brian Stinson * Ondřej Budai * Davida Cavalca *Ali Erdinc Koroglu Roadmap and (Action) TODO List * SIG Setup ** Officially become a SIG (DONE) ** Determine when our meetings will be (DONE FOR NOW) *** Get them on the calendar (IN PROGRESS) ** Basic SIG Infrastructure setup *** IRC channel created (DONE) *** Git repo created (DONE) * Documentation Created ** Basic SIG documentation (STARTED) *** Configuration for creating images (NEED) *** Instructions for creating images (NEED) ** Configuration templates for members / potential members (NEED) ** Instructions for end users *** Where to get the images (NEED) *** How to use the images (NEED) * Infrastructure Setup * Install Imagebuilding setup in CentOS Stream and/or Fedora (NEED) * Live Image building setup in CentOS Stream and/or Fedora (NEED) * Images to Mirrors setup (NEED) If you see a NEED and know how to do it, let us know and we can get started on it. Troy [1] - https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/87 [2] - https://pagure.io/group/centos-sig-alt-images [3] - https://pagure.io/centos-sig-alt-images/sig [4] j- https://github.com/CentOS/Calendar/pull/60

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Are CentOS Stream 8 package updates stalled?
by Greg Bailey 05 Nov '22

05 Nov '22

I've switched my CentOS Linux 8 workstation to CentOS Stream 8 quite some time ago, and haven't encountered too many issues doing so, but I'm curious as to why there haven't been any package updates that I can see in quite some time (since early October as far as I can see). With the new stream process, my understanding is that for feature and bugfix development, the process is: Git ---> CentOS Stream ---> RHEL (next minor version) But with security updates, it seems to be: Git ---> RHEL (current minor version) ---> RHEL rebuilds (Rocky, Alma, etc) I'm kind of surprised that my firefox and thunderbird builds still seem stuck at 91.13.0, when I've seen updates go by on the RHEL 8 channels with the newer firefox builds, etc. What is the flow for security updates to make it into CentOS Stream package repositories? Is there some documentation describing this that maybe I missed? I don't remember seeing this on the CPE newsletter either. Thanks, Greg

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Gauging interest in Discourse
by Shaun McCance 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

Hi all, You might be aware that there is a CentOS category on the Fedora Discourse instance: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71 There have been some discussions about having a dedicated Discourse instance for CentOS. Discourse has a lot of advantages, such as better moderation and integration with our accounts system. But I understand that many people are comfortable with their existing workflows. There's no point in running Discourse if it doesn't get enough buy-in. So I'm asking for input on using Discourse for various things: * Project announcements, like events, meetings, and infra changes * Activity reports, such as for SIGs and events * User support, replacing forums.centos.org * Development of Stream itself, basically centos-devel * Development of stuff inside SIGs * Replacement for the comments section of the blog * Alternatively, just replacing the blog entirely * Something else I'm not thinking of Thanks, Shaun McCance CentOS Community Architect Red Hat Open Source Program Office

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