devel September 2024

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Board Nominations Requested
by Shaun McCance 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

** Please read this entire email before responding with nominations. ** We have a process, and the process is important. Recently, Brian Exelbierd notified the CentOS board that he will be moving on from his role as Red Hat Liaison. The Red Hat Liaison role is special: it is the only board seat appointed by and speaking for Red Hat. All other board members are at-large and speak for themselves. Brian's role will be backfilled, but until it is, Josh Boyer will step in as the interim Red Hat Liaison. This means that Josh is stepping down from his position as an at-large board member. See Brian's and Josh's emails for more info: https://lists.centos.org/hyperkitty/list/devel@lists.centos.org/thread/QAG4… https://lists.centos.org/hyperkitty/list/devel@lists.centos.org/thread/BCWM… We are asking you, the CentOS community, for nominations for who should fill Josh'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/jqYF7v5AUVy6L1Fz6 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/ Nominations will be open until September 23. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration and participation in this process. -- Shaun, for the CentOS Board of Directors

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Planned outage , please read (Oct 8th)
by Fabian Arrotin 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Due to a mandatory core switches upgrade in the DC where some services are hosted, we'll lose connectivity between some services/storage servers and some publicly available services will be impacted. Impacted services: - https://git.centos.org - https://cbs.centos.org (builders will be put on hold during maintenance window) - https://lists.centos.org - CentOS mailing lists - CentOS CI env (https://duffy.ci.centos.org api endpoint) Maintenance 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/communicated "downtime" was estimated to be 4h, but we'll just announce when all services will be available again. Thanks for your understanding and patience. on behalf of the Infra team, -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

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access to s390x arch for SIGs (looking for comments)
by Fabian Arrotin 27 Sep '24

27 Sep '24

It's not the first time that some SIGs members are reaching out to me to ask about s390x architecture access for CBS (https://cbs.centos.org) This time, it was on irc, in #centos-devel channel. I promised to open a public thread on devel list so that we can reach out to bigger audience (SIGs and project leaders). Myself, talking about the Infra SIG needs, I'd love to have access to s390x architecture, as my current plan includes building through local mock on a different infra, and then having to launch manual processes, as our infra packages are built / signed / distributed like every other SIG, but so lacking s390x support. During that discussion on the centos-devel irc channel earlier today, someone mentioned https://openmainframeproject.org/news/developer-resources-for-linux-on-s390… Do you think (as SIGs) that it would be beneficial to eventually engage ? But also searching for CentOS Board members' opinion/thought on this first, as I don't want to start engaging with IBM through that public process if there is another way :) That reminds me this Fedora thread about similar request : https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11122 Opinions ? Thoughts ? -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

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CentOS Showcase, Nov 4
by Shaun McCance 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

Hi folks, Since we consolidated our in-person events to the one CentOS Connect each year at FOSDEM, there's been a lot of demand to bring back virtual events to show things off throughout the year. On November 4, we're going to host our first CentOS Showcase. This is a half-day virtual event, featuring short 20-minute talks where you can show off what you've been working on in CentOS. https://cfp.fedoraproject.org/centos-showcase-2024-11/ The CFP and registration are open. We're testing out new platforms as we do this, so please let us know if there are problems. We hope to run these virtual events 2-3 times per year going forward. We're very interested in your feedback on the format so we can improve in the future. Thanks, Shaun

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Red Hat Liaison role filled
by Josh Boyer 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

Hello CentOS community, A month ago we announced that Brian Exelbierd would be departing Red Hat and that I would be taking the Liaison role to the CentOS Board on an interim basis while Red Hat looked for a long-term candidate. I am pleased to inform you that Steve Wanless will be taking the Red Hat Liaison role, effective immediately. Steve is a Product Manager within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Unit focused on infrastructure and ecosystem. He has also been looking into RISC-V and other forward looking technologies. Please give Steve a warm welcome to the project. josh

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centpkg-sig - option for both git repos
by Troy Dawson 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

Currently centpkg-sig is configured to point to git.centos.org and that is great for those SIG's that use that. But more and more SIG's are using gitlab.com/CentOS. I sent out an email a couple months ago when this pull request came in[1] and found out that some SIG's were using git.centos.org. But I've had another ping about changing the default, and it got me thinking about somehow having two defaults. I'm still thinking about how we could do that, but I'm curious about how much the CentOS SIG's would want this? There are a couple ways to do it. A) have two configurations with two "binaries" centos-sig-pagure centos-sig-gitlab B) Have one set as the default, and the other as an option centos-sig centos-sig --gitlab C) Something else, like checking both places to see if the package is there. Sounds icky, but just an example of "something else" So I guess I have two questions: - Do the SIG's want this? - Does anyone have a good idea on how to do it? Troy [1] - https://git.centos.org/centos/centpkg/pull-request/99

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Cloud SiG Meeting and Chair/Co-Chair Nominations and Elections
by Joel Capitao 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hi folks, It's been 2 years since I'm chairing the Cloud SiG, and I think it's time for me to step down and let another, or new, members of the SiG give a new momentum. So we would like to take nominations for the chair and co-chair roles. Please reply to this email with your self-nominations and nominations for other members of the SiG. If you are nominated by another member of the SiG please reply to this mail as well with your acceptance. You can also reply privately to Amy (spotz) in cc. If we have a quorum, we will hold elections during the next meeting (Oct 10). If a quorum is not met, we will ask for 1-2 volunteers and hold an election outside our regular meeting. Thank you, Joel

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CentOS Cloud SIG meeting minutes (2024-09-12)
by Joel Capitao 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

====================================================== #centos-meeting: CentOS Cloud SIG meeting (2024-09-12) ====================================================== Meeting summary --------------- * roll call * Move to Matrix for meetings ? * centbot on IRC was decommissioned * the bridge IRC Libera server/Matrix is down * next meetings will take place on Matrix #centos-cloud:fedoraproject.org * RDO/OpenStack Update * RDO is preparing the Dalmatian release

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2024-09-11 - CentOS Public Board Meeting
by Thomas Oulevey 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Hi Everyone, Our next board meeting will take place at 20:00 UTC tomorrow `date -d "2024-09-11 20:00 UTC"` If you would like to attend please send me an email to alphacc(a)centosproject.org ( please do not reply to @centos-devel or use another email address) and you will receive a link to a meeting room with a passcode, 1 hour before the meeting takes place. The agenda can be checked at (work in progress) : https://hackmd.io/@centosboard/S1wSrw320 As a reminder we will enforce few rules : * Wait to be recognized by the Chair before speaking * Respect the Chair when told your time to speak is over - this will allow us to remain on agenda, and complete the meetings in the allotted time * In the event that there are Board-confidential topics, these will be put at the end of the meeting, in Executive Session, and guests will be asked to leave. We hope to minimize these items, but they do sometimes happen. The most common scenarios in which this may happen are personnel issues, or information that Red Hat wishes to share with the Board, but is not yet public. * Muting of participants, or, in extreme situations, ejection from the meeting, is at the sole discretion of the Chair. * Meetings will be recorded, and published to YouTube (possibly with edits/redaction, as approved by the Directors). Thus, by joining the meeting you consent to have your presence at the meeting, and anything you say during the meeting, made public. I hope some of you can join. thanks, -- Thomas 'alphacc' Oulevey CentOS Board of Directors Secretary alphacc(a)centosproject.org

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Minor Jira tweaks next week
by Brendan Conoboy 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hi folks, This is a quick note to let you know that some minor changes will be coming to Jira early next week. If you write JQL for fun, love dashboards, or otherwise enjoy recreational parsing, these might affect you. 1: Today RHEL CVE trackers are filed with a "Bug" issue type. Next week we'll start adding new issues with CVE-centric issue types. These include extra CVE-centric fields. 2: The Severity field's available values will be simplified down to just 4: Urgent, High, Medium, and Low. Values in existing issues will be remapped. This is probably a no-op for most people, but just in case, that's the plan! -- Brendan Conoboy / CASE & CPE / Red Hat, Inc.

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