devel February 2025

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Proposal to default to GitLab for SIG packaging
by Davide Cavalca 28 Apr '25

28 Apr '25

In the last Board meeting we discussed the future of git.centos.org, and whether it would make sense to encourage SIGs to move over to GitLab, as we already have a group at gitlab.com/centos and that's where CentOS Stream development is happening (under gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream) GitLab also provides features (notably, CI integration via Pipelines and an improved code review flow) that some SIGs would like to use and would benefit from. To this end, I have filed https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issue/129 to summarize the discussion and decide the next steps. We'd welcome any comments and feedback on this. To be clear, there are no plans to sunset git.centos.org at this time. Cheers Davide

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AltImages SIG: Announcing new images
by Troy Dawson 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

The CentOS Alternative Images SIG[1] has updated their CentOS Stream 9 Live images this quarter. We also added 4 new Live desktop images.[2] We now have * CINNAMON * GNOME * KDE * MATE * XFCE * MAX MAX has all the desktops listed above, plus a few others like IceWM and Lumina. All of these live images can be installed on your system. If there are bugs that are specific to the live images (not just general CentOS Stream bugs) please file an issue in our spins bug tracker.[3] Troy [1] - https://sigs.centos.org/altimages/ [2] - https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/altimages/images/live/ [3] - https://pagure.io/centos-sig-alt-images/spin-bugs/issues

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Proposal: CentOS Stream RISC-V Datacenter SIG
by Jeffrey Osier-Mixon 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Hello CentOS folks - this is a first email to propose a RISC-V SIG within CentOS, specifically to support a CentOS Stream port for RISC-V. The idea is to show that CentOS Stream can run effectively on many existing RISC-V platforms, as these have already been demonstrated through Fedora. I'm very interested in feedback on this, as I'd like to promote to the CentOS board as soon as possible. thanks Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon | josiermi(a)redhat.com Distinguished Community Architect, Red Hat Office of the CTO Automotive, RISC-V, Edge & IoT Communities

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[needinfo] centos-stream-10 as TDX guests in google cloud
by bgartzia＠redhat.com 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Hi, I see public google cloud centos-stream-9 images [0] are already marked as TDX_CAPABLE. I assume centos-stream-10 images should also carry the TDX_CAPABLE guest OS feature (whenever they're available in gcp), is that correct? Thanks! Best regards, Beñat [0] https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/imagesDetail/projects/centos-cloud…

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February Board Meeting Recap
by Shaun McCance 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

The recording of the January CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/vL45D7xaWsA Read the minutes: https://hackmd.io/@centosboard/SyyJmUWtkx The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: * We discussed the points raised at the FRCL meeting at CentOS Connect. * Davide presented the progress on migrating SIGs to GitLab. * The board discussed the recent proposal for a Fast Track SIG.

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Kmods SIG Kernel Appreciation
by Alex Laurie 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

I only recently found out that the Kmods SIG is producing Fedora flavored EL kernels. I installed 6.6 yesterday and it has resolved all my issues with a device I have that wasn't being detected and it also had no issues with the NVIDIA dkms drivers I use. I just wanted to say thank you to the Kmods SIG team and know that the work is appreciated. CentOS should have a blog post on this and be promoting it on twitter as an option for EL users that need a newer kernel (I see ELREPO recommended a lot, but I had many DKMS issues with it). -- Cheers, Alex

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Virtualizaton SIG meetings update
by Sandro Bonazzola 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

Dear Members, The CentOS Virtualization SIG will not be holding regular meetings for the time being. Instead, all discussions and collaborations should take place on our mailing list: <https://lists.centos.org/hyperkitty/list/virt@lists.centos.org/> If a meeting is needed for a specific topic, members can request one through the mailing list, and we will organize it as necessary. We appreciate your participation and look forward to engaging discussions online. Best, -- Sandro Bonazzola CentOS Virtualization Special Interest Group

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CentOS Fast Track SIG Proposal
by Jonathan Wright 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Howdy, I'd like to propose a new Special Interest Group focused on providing primarily fixes in packages that are likely to be eventually merged into CentOS Stream directly. # Proposer(s) - Jonathan Wright - Michel Lind (copied) # Purpose This SIG is intended for fast tracking package updates that are beneficial for those who run CentOS Stream in production, and have a high likelihood of eventually being available in CentOS Stream (think within one minor release of RHEL, not the next major release of Stream). The SIG especially welcomes contributions from the rebuilder community aiming to foster upstream collaboration. # Mechanism - builds with the same repos as normal CentOS Stream packages. EPEL is /not/ enabled, but CentOS Stream buildroot will be enabled. - but we don't distinguish between base, appstream, crb - we maintain one repo and we assume CRB is enabled (use same mechanism as epel-release to suggest people enable it) - DistTag sorts lower than the normal Stream packages (e.g. ~el10), that way we can submit our changes as-is as a merge request - Vendor matches CentOS Stream base packages, that way we can interoperate with packages from other SIGs, or on systems that have vendor locking enabled - packages built from one-off branches (e.g. the branch a merge request is sourced from), so we can always start from the existing state of the published Stream package -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux OS Foundation Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>

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2025-02-12 - CentOS Public Board Meeting
by Thomas Oulevey 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Hi Everyone, Our next board meeting will take place at 21:00 UTC tomorrow `date -d "2025-02-12 21:00 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/SyyJmUWtkx 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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Centos Stream devel repos on mirrors will be trimmed down
by Troy Dawson 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Currently, the normal CentOS Stream repos (AppStream, BaseOS and CRB) keep the last 5 releases of a package. But the corresponding devel repos, which contain the debuginfo and debugsource packages, keep all the packages. This has caused these repos to get rather large and has been causing disk space issues for those mirrors that choose to mirror them. Starting next week, we will start trimming the devel repos the same way we have been trimming the others, only keeping the last 5 releases of each package. We will not be touching koji, or any other place these packages might be, only the mirrors. Troy Dawson

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