devel January 2024

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[Feedback request] CentOS website theme readability
by Alain Reguera Delgado 17 Aug '24

17 Aug '24

Hi, The website theme is being updated to improve content responsiveness and readability, on both large and small screen devices. Your feedback would be very helpful to detect usability issues and consolidate a design that works well for you. Here is an example page you can use for testing: https://www.dev.centos.org/about/governance/sigs/#functional-sig-responsibi… Is the content of this page readable for you? If possible, provide feedback from both large and small screen devices. Thanks! -- Alain Reguera Delgado <alain.reguera(a)gmail.com>

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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 Stream logos
by Troy Dawson 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

Hi, Is there some official CentOS Stream logo's I can use for presentations? I mean the new logos, not the old ones. I made my own, but I think someone is going to call me out on it. Troy

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Info : authentication issues (FAS/ACO accounts)
by Fabian Arrotin 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Already reflected yesterday on https://status.centos.org/ but announcing on centos-devel list as we receive also questions on irc about this (so sending here for awareness) : Since yesterday, the IPA cluster used for Fedora authentication has an outage (see fedora-infra ticket https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11733) Apart from https://accounts.centos.org portal, you'll see issues in centos infra/services using FAS authentication too. That includes : - https://cbs.centos.org (no group sync) - pushing to lookaside cache (querying fasjson, down at the moment) - eventually requesting new TLS cert (fasjson down) - logging on a service itself using id.centos.org (ipsilon instance tied to IPA and so having issue with IPA backend) For more information, feel free to watch fedora-infra ticket -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

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Questions for the Board Panel
by Shaun McCance 21 Jan '24

21 Jan '24

Hi all, We will hold a panel session for the CentOS Board at CentOS Connect on Thursday, February 1. We'd like to collect questions from the community ahead of time. Please use this form to submit a question: https://forms.gle/QPSCTNUoNYd2y3Yd9 Remember that there is an open board seat. This is an opportunity to find out what it's like to be on the board. Thanks, Shaun

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Board Nominations Requested
by Shaun McCance 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

** Please read this entire email before responding with nominations. ** We have a process, and the process is important. As per our governance docs: https://www.centos.org/about/governance/board/ Every six months, half of our directors are asked if they wish to continue in their seats or step down. This time, we will have one seat to fill. Celeste Lyn Paul has indicated to the board her intent to step down. We all appreciate the work she's done on the board. We are asking you, the CentOS community, for nominations for who should fill Celeste's seat. Note that the vote on who will fill this seat is held by the board itself, but nominations are open to the entire community. If you would like to nominate someone (or self-nominate), please use this Google form: https://forms.gle/smLjUWdpXZXzZVD36 Please DO NOT send nominations to this list. As this is not a public vote, we don't want to give the impression of a popularity contest with public nominations. We also want to avoid any shaming if someone is nominated and is not seated, or chooses not to accept. I will ensure that each nominee is willing and able to serve, and the board will consider them and select the next director from the list. If you wish to nominate someone, you should consider the list of director requirements and recommendations listed at: https://www.centos.org/about/governance/director-requirements/ Thank you for your thoughtful consideration and participation in this process. -- Shaun, for the CentOS Board of Directors

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CentOS Connect: please provide feedback for FreeIPA use for CentOS infrastructure
by Alexander Bokovoy 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

Hi, my talk proposal for CentOS Connect[1] about getting feedback of FreeIPA usage in CentOS and downstream distributions infrastructure got accepted but the actual length of the talk was cut in half. The talk was supposed to be a discussion but with a shorter slot it is probably best if I'd collect this feedback in advance and present it together with other topics I am going to cover during the talk. So this is a request to every CentOS-related project that uses FreeIPA in their infrastructure: please provide your feedback! What features do you use, what would like to see improved, how we can help you from identity management projects' point of view. You can simply answer here or directly to me. Thank you in advance and see you all in Brussels! [1] https://connect.centos.org/ -- / Alexander Bokovoy Sr. Principal Software Engineer Security / Identity Management Engineering Red Hat Limited, Finland

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Alternative Images SIG meeting minutes (2024-01-11)
by Troy Dawson 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

TOPIC: Image build systems: kiwi (@tdawson:fedora.im, 19:06:05) We are able to make images.[1] They boot and install, but you cannot boot into the newly installed image. https://cbs.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3751898 Investigation has shown that dracut is getting errors when trying to create the initramfs. dracut: dracut module 'livenet' depends on 'dmsquash-live', which can't be installed dracut: dracut module 'dmsquash-live' cannot be found or installed. And yes, dmsquash-live is installed. If you want to get around this. After the install is done, but before you click on the button that closes anaconda, open a terminal on the live cd. Become root and then chroot /mnt/sysroot dracut --regenerate-all --no-hostonly --force If you are a dracut expert, any help would be appreciated. TOPIC: Open Floor (@tdawson:fedora.im, 19:30:48) CentOS Connect at Fosdom - https://connect.centos.org/: - "Alternative Image SIG - Let's Talk About It" by Troy Dawson - "Alternative Images SIG meetup" by Neal Gompa and Troy Dawson -- So our next SIG meeting will be in person Logs and minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2024-01-… https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2024-01-… https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2024-01-… https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2024-01-…

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Announcing rpmautospec support on cbs.centos.org
by Fabian Arrotin 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

A long time ago, some SIGs requested rpmautospec to be available on https://cbs.centos.org koji instance. Due to the fact that previous versions of rpmautospec were running on the kojid host, and not *inside* buildroots, and that it needed different version of pygit2/libgit2 conflicting with operating system, it wasn't possible to enable that feature ... ... But these days are gone now ! Thanks to the work done by rpmautospec maintainer (Nils Philippsen), rpmautospec is now divided into multiple packages, and mock 5.4 (released upstream last week) has the built-in logic (in mock-rpmautospec) to call rpmautospec in the populated buildroot. That means that from today, rpmautospec is implemented in cbs.centos.org , with the following needed changes : - at the kojid host level : bump to mock 5.4 and mock-rpmautospec plugin installed and enabled - at the kojihub level, the inherited buildsys9s-release tag has all the needed packages (https://cbs.centos.org/koji/builds?tagID=2363) required at runtime to process the %autorelease and %autochangelog entries # How to use it ? Basically SIGs asking initially to have it already know how to use it but using https://fedora-infra.github.io/rpmautospec-docs/ docs to understand %autorelease and %autochangelog is the only required thing. CBS doesn't have anything to understand as it's rpmautospec's job to process git logs to automatically convert these macros. That also means that it's really opt-in : if there is no %autorelease/%autochangelog, nothing will be processed, so the build will happen as it was in the past (no change) # When can we use it ? Whenever you want, as it was implemented today, and by the time you'll have read this email, cbs *should* have reprocessed the various build tags to see the inherited packages from buildsys9-release tag (packages needed in buildroot dynamically installed when %autochangelog and %autorelease are detected) # Limitation As said in the past, rpmautospec itself needed at least python3 (and deps), meaning that it wasn't available for el8. So trying to use rpmautospec for CentOS Stream 8 on cbs.centos.org wouldn't work (but Stream 8 itself will go EOL in ~3months anyway). Kind Regards, -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

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Feedback on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 plans
by John Cooper 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Dear Sir/Madam, You’re currently exploring raising the instruction set base line, which will exclude some systems and also people (who are unable to afford to upgrade to reach the new baseline). I however want to draw your attention to the plans, to disable or remove megaraid based hardware from Dell. Doing so will cause issues and leave behind people in the home lab community behind. Also there’s also videos circulating from as recently as during 2022 recommending the Dell PowerEdge R620 rack servers. The people in the home lab community are in essence a source of recommendations for people considering whether or not to acquire Red Hat’s services. So having them on side is a very good thing! Just something to consider during RHEL 10’s development. Kind Regards, John Sent from my iPad

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