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February Newsletter
by Shaun McCance 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

It's monthly newsletter time. FOSDEM and CentOS Connect recap. KDE EPEL updates. Reports from the Cloud, NFV, Storage, and Promo SIGs. https://blog.centos.org/2023/02/centos-community-newsletter-february-2023/

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CentOS 7/8s EOL and public services/application discussion (READ ME)
by Fabian Arrotin 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

Hi all, For the first time in CentOS history, we'll have two version going EOL the same year, at just some week intervals, so we should already be prepared about this, and the sooner, the better. Per https://www.centos.org/centos-linux/ and https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/#centos-stream-8 : - June 30th 2024 for CentOS Linux 7 - May 31st 2024 for CentOS Stream 8 At the infra side, there are services that we still need to see working, so we already started to add el9 support to our ansible roles and some services are already (or will be soon) migrated to el9. I intend to send multiple mails in the next hours/days about identified applications for which we're still unsure if we should migrate these , or just let them behind (decommission), so if you see a topic/subject for an application you're interested in, feel free to participate in that specific thread (easier to read/follow than just everything in one email thread). These emails should start with something like "RFC (Request for comments) : future of <app>" Let me just announce here in advance the (public) infra services running on CentOS 7 that will just disappear when CentOS 7 itself will be EOL (and so not receiving any update anymore) : - mirror.centos.org : all Stream 9 (and above) mirror content is now on its own dedicated mirror.stream.centos.org CDN setup, so there is no need to keep an empty mirror.centos.org vhost with no content, as all content will be moved (as usual) to vault.centos.org. So mirror.centos.org A/AAAA records will be removed completely. (or we can just have a simple vhost with a redirect to mirror.stream.centos.org) - mirrorlist.centos.org : from Stream 9 (and above), it's using Fedora infra mirrormanager instance for metalink= instead of mirrorlist= in .repo files. We'll just decommission our mirror crawler (also running with a mix of perl/python2 code), so not validating any mirror for legacy/EOL releases. mirrorlist.centos.org A/AAAA records will be removed in the following weeks after c7 will be EOL'ed. -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

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Alternative Images SIG meeting notes
by Troy Dawson 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

* Image build systems: kiwi / livecd * Tags and targets are now in CBS. We are now able to build images * Thanks to all those that did that work * We are not able to publish to the mirrors yet * https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1039 * !! Help is needed creating rpm-ostree stuff in kiwi !! * https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/issues/38 * kiwi can currently create the following images: live media, OEM disk images, VM disk images, cloud images, container images, WSL images, fstrees, squashfs images, filesystem tarballs, liveinstall ISOs, PXE images, UEFI netboot images * Image build systems: containers * The SIG would like to build containers in kiwi, so that it is build on CBS instead of elsewhere. People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * tdawson (47) * Eighth_Doctor (34) * salimma (15) * davide (6) * centguard (5) Minutes: https://www.centos.org/minutes/2023/February/centos-meeting.2023-02-23-19.0… Log: https://www.centos.org/minutes/2023/February/centos-meeting.2023-02-23-19.0…

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CentOS Stream 8 is transitioning to be ahead of RHEL 8 - Compose push to mirror operations affected
by Brian Stinson 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi Folks, As many of you know, CentOS Stream 8 is currently produced using an "inside out" workflow, meaning RHEL builds happen first and then are reflected in CentOS Stream afterward. This is not the case with CentOS Stream 9 where builds are performed directly by maintainers at Red Hat from merge requests in gitlab.com. The CentOS Stream team is busy working on a project to migrate CentOS Stream 8 to the gitlab.com/Stream-first workflow. This is an exciting step to reflect CentOS Stream's true purpose in both currently active releases. One effect of this transition, though, is that we need to migrate from the old mbox buildsystem to the new Stream koji ( https://kojihub.stream.centos.org). To do this the team needs to pause regular compose and push-to-mirror jobs to avoid a split-brain situation with 2 separate systems. You may notice a lack of updates to the repos on the mirrors for a few more weeks while this transition is completed. The team's first priority is making sure that Red Hat maintainers take control over the c8s branches in https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms (and builds in koji) and then the team will return to working on regular composes and push-to-mirror operations. If you have any questions in the interim, please reach out to me. Cheers! -- Brian Stinson

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EPEL 8 Modules officially retired
by Troy Dawson 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

EPEL 8 Modules are now officially retired. - The EPEL 8 modules are being archived. - The mirror manager is being pointed to the archive - Tags, targets and configurations are being removed so new builds cannot happen. - The dnf epel-modular.repo will remain, but will still default to disabled - The dnf epel-modular.repo name will change DEPRECATED to RETIRED Some of these steps take longer than others. If you do not see the change right now, know that it is coming. Questions and Answers: Question: Will I still be able to access the modules? Answer: It is not recommended, because the modules will not get any security or bug fixes, but yes. They will be in the Fedora archives, and the mirror managers will point at them.

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CentOS Board Office Hours
by Shaun McCance 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

Due to CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and general travel, the CentOS Board didn't get notice out for the February meeting. There was no official meeting, although there was a video chat. Nonetheless, we'll hold our monthly board office hours this Thursday, February 16, 15 15:00 UTC. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81819497130?pwd=WTQxNDdYS1UwK3RzdTdxeGRIMjRBUT09 Thanks, Shaun

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CentOS Cloud SIG meeting minutes (2023-02-09)
by Joel Capitao 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

====================================================== #centos-meeting: CentOS Cloud SIG meeting (2023-02-09) ====================================================== Meeting started by jcapitao[m] at 15:01:36 UTC. The full logs are available athttps://www.centos.org/minutes/2023/February/centos-meeting.2023-02-09-15… . Meeting summary --------------- * roll call (jcapitao[m], 15:01:55) * Documentation update proposal (jcapitao[m], 15:08:22) * LINK: https://pagure.io/centos-sig-cloud/documentation (jcapitao[m], 15:08:39) * LINK: https://www.operate-first.cloud/ (Eighth_Doctor, 15:25:34) * Architectures for SCOS (jcapitao[m], 15:28:26) * LINK: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2023-January/142747.html (amoralej, 15:32:51) * LINK: https://build.opensuse.org/ (amoralej, 15:47:58) * LINK: https://github.com/okd-project/okd-coreos-pipeline (lorbus, 15:51:13) * LINK: https://sigs.centos.org/guide/cbs/ (Eighth_Doctor, 15:58:05) * ACTION: lorbus to start process to add labels for SIG Cloud builds on CBS (lorbus, 15:58:13) Meeting ended at 16:02:41 UTC. Action Items ------------ * lorbus to start process to add labels for SIG Cloud builds on CBS Action Items, by person ----------------------- * lorbus * lorbus to start process to add labels for SIG Cloud builds on CBS * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * lorbus (60) * amoralej (59) * Eighth_Doctor (48) * jcapitao[m] (45) * centguard (12) * spotz_ (9) * davdunc[m (7) * aleskandro[m] (3) * karolinku12 (1) * arrfab (1) * karolinku (0) * davdunc (0) * aleskandro (0) * Conan (0) * Kudo (0) * davdunc[m] (0) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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