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CentOS Dojo / Hackathon for Cloud Images
by Karanbir Singh 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

hi, On the 31st Jan, we hosted a CentOS Cloud Instance hackathon at the CentOS Dojo @ IBM Forum, brussels. We had contributions from the redhat openstack team, the cloudstack people, hpcloud, opennebula and the xen crew. Apart from getting the base images done for these, we also had a few docker images built, xen-pv and xen=hvm images for xen4centos and as a final bonus towards the end of the day, I was able to update tooling to build all of the above against the rhel7beta tree ( the actual instance building work was all being done against centos-6/x86_64 only ). All in all, I closed the day with 84 attempts ( of which 57 were successful ). During the hack session, everyone was targetting, as had been planned really - a common cloud-init package. Before I start pushing the content up publicly and upload the images done in the session, it would be good to have the conversation around cloud-init. Are we going to keep consuming it from EPEL ? which is hard and tricky, or are we going to pull it into a centos.org repo ( Extras/ seems like a good target, for base common stuff ). And if we do pull it in, how are we going to keep in sync with EPEL ( and maybe other repos ) so we dont end up ver-rel thrashing at updates time. For the sake of completeness, the AWS images for 6.5 I've pushed yesterday ( Wed 5th ) are as the 6.4 ones ( i.e. no cloud-init ). Finally, to everyone there at the hackathon, I apologise for the rater poor network conditions. Its something I will try and fix for the next time. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Office Hours on GSoC
by Karsten Wade 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Late reminder, we'll be starting the office hours on Google Summer of Code participation for the project. I'm mainly going to focus on how to be a successful mentoring organization, history, and what work there is to do. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCentOSProject Live on #centos-devel on Freenode http://www.centos.org/media - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlL49d8ACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEH1ZACfQum9Ypef4C98Pw1ujYwchUs2 jPIAoLw+Mv0xpp5SlNVneZPn58TIMK1s =Fs/L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Xen/Xen4CentOS SIG
by Lars Kurth 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Hi all, congratulations on the RedHat/CentOS announcement. Sorry for responding so late on SIGs: I was in China until recently and had no time to follow up. There is definitely interest to continue the Xen (or Xen4CentOS) SIG within CentOS, building on the Xen4CentOS work of last year. I want to get the endorsement of the Xen Project Advisory Board for joining the SIG at next Tuesday's board meeting. This will give an application (if needed) extra weight. I don't expect any issues. The other question I have is whether we do need to re-apply (http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup lists Xen4CentOS as a SIG already) and what the format for an application would be other than posting to this list. Maybe we ought to look at the naming of the SIG and make it more generic to cover for future version changes in Xen as well as targeting CentOS versions beyond CentOS 7 (which ought to be a lot easier than CentOS 6 because we only need Xen and no custom kernel). Also, there would probably be practical issues on list naming, etc. (Xen4CentOS is merged with CentOS-virt from a list perspective). I don't have an issue with the status quo, but it may be cleaner for CentOS in the long run if there was a clear SIG to list mapping. Best Regards Lars

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VoIP SIG Hangout on Feb 13, 16:00 UTC
by Patrick Laimbock 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hi, The VoIP SIG Hangout has been rescheduled and will now take place on Feb 13 at 16:00 UTC [0]. For more information how to join the hangout on Google+ or follow it on Youtube please check http://wiki.centos.org/OfficeHours Nothing set in stone but some of the things open for discussion are the scope of the VoIP SIG, the goal, the target audience, the deliverables, content distribution and lets not forget the actual proposal. It's also helpful to get an industry perspective, how to make the production side easier and facilitate processes that improve the usability of CentOS in the VoIP sector. Best regards, Patrick Laimbock [0] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140213T16&am=30

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GSoC mentoring org application, and 14 Feb deadline [GSoC]
by Karsten Wade 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I'm in the mode of "perfect is enemy of good enough", so I'm going to send out a status right now before I keep waiting to get more done. :) A handful of people have offered some help, project ideas, and to be the co-/backup admin (an application requirement.) Thanks! Our main needs to complete our application are: * Ideas, ideas, ideas - SIGs take note! * A backup admin * Mentors (and teams) beginning to commit Please read on for current status on everything: ideas, mentors, office hours, backup admin, and students. == Ideas We need good ideas, and around one mentor for each idea. (It's OK if we have a few more ideas than mentors assigned right now, as long as the idea list is long enough. It's job is to give students ideas on what and how to write their proposals.) http://wiki.centos.org/GSoC/2014/Ideas If you have an idea, fill out the template, or email it to me. If you think it needs a bit of discussion first, you can start a thread for it on centos-devel. SIGs -- this is a great way to get work done toward your variant needs. Packaging, yum plugins, and so forth are all good approaches. It's fine (and encouraged) if the students' work ends up happening primarily in your upstream and we absorb the goodness in to CentOS Linux later. == Mentors You are needed, at least one for each student. You can represent a group, such as release engineering, QA, or a SIG. The rest of your group should be prepared to work with the students on proposals and the final project. == CentOS Office Hours We'll use the Monday CentOS Office Hours to talk about GSoC: http://wiki.centos.org/OfficeHours That's at 16:00 UTC on a Google Hangout and live on YouTube or via http://www.centos.org/media. At the moment it will be any of the Board members chatting about things, but we may have room for a few other voices if there is someone else we should include in the discussion. == Backup admin & administrivia I'm working the application details here: http://wiki.centos.org/GSoC/2014/Application We need a backup admin, it's mandatory for the application. I've heard from a few interested folks, please let me know if you are interested. I'd especially like to work with someone who hasn't administered GSoC before, so I can spread the knowledge. We can have more than one backup admin, but we definitely need one for the application. Since I'm so new to the community, I'm going to consult the rest of the Board members for who would make good co-/backup-admins. I'll try to get that figured out early next week, let's set Tuesday end-of-day in California for that. We also need some tags to associate with the project, such as: Linux, yum, RPM, packaging, OpenStack, Ceph, Python, etc. Suggestions welcome. == Students Your time to apply hasn't come yet. We need to be accepted as a mentoring org first. But it is a great thing when existing community members who are also students apply for the projects. I've seen quite a number of very good results from that - getting paid to spend the summer making CentOS Linux or the Project better! - - Karsten - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlL1anYACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEGgMgCglTM4oreC0DBOahsEc3iJ4jX9 o4AAoIw5ivDA8C99YRHnL4OH/ic7R/RX =/nEN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ClearCenter Marketplace for CentOS Variant
by David Loper 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

ClearCenter and ClearFoundation are interested in starting a CentOS variant called 'ClearCenter Marketplace for CentOS'. This will allow management of various CentOS services, EPEL packages, and third party applications to be easily managed and configured under CentOS. We are also interested in being part of a SIG centered around 'Server Management.' Please let us know the next steps. We'd like to get started right away and we are willing to participate in the process of helping to set up shop. Let us know how we can serve. -- David Loper President, ClearFoundation

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CentOS-6.5 support for the "Ekoore Python3v2 TOUCHPANEL added using 2 patches.
by Sebastian Yarici 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

hi'lo #centOS-devel, we added support to CentOS6.5 for the Tablet-PC "EKOORE Python3v2" it took us some time but we have a fix! one change to the kernel-config and one change to the FDI file, please tell me how to contribute the two changes. greetingz --c11

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VoIP SIG
by Rob Thomas 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

I'd like to put my hand up to be part of the VoIP SIG. After mentioning this in IRC, I've also had two other people contact me privately (puzzled and JHogarth) with their interest too. Currently we (FreePBX) build 'FreePBX Distro', which is a up-to-date CentOS distro, with a couple of known-broken packages upgraded (drbd, pacemaker) or replaced (asterisk). --Rob

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proposal on process to carry distro package patches
by Karanbir Singh 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

hi, https://git.centos.org/tree/sig-core!bld-seven.git mirrored at : https://github.com/CentOS/sig-core-bld-seven now carries a proposed process to carry package patches. So stuff like branding or build changes needed, or even content changes to make things work could be carried like this. Primary target is for people doing arch work that isnt inherited from upstream. Comments welcome, were only going to start with this for the i686 builds, but if it works and is acceptable widely, we can roll this out across the board. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Repository structures for SIG and variants in the future
by Jim Perrin 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

As part of opening up the possibilities for SIGs and Variants within the CentOS ecosystem, we need to give some thought to how repositories should be structured so that different can cooperate with each other. What we have discussed in the past, and what I'd like to propose to the -devel community, is that we adopt a page similar to the KDE framework. The way I envision this working is as follows: - Tier 1 repositories: Adds packages only. These repos may not update or replace anything in the core distribution. (Example: EPEL) - Tier 2 repositories: These repositories may provide provide packages that update or otherwise enhance packages in the base distribution, but otherwise maintain compatibility. (Example IUS - Tier 3 repositories: These repositories contain packages that conflict with software inside the core distribution. This would be Xen4CentOS for example, which replaces the kernel, and adds in xen functionality. Each tier may choose to rely on dependencies from repositories in the tier above it, but not the other way around. For example, the tier 3 Xen4 repository could choose to rely on packages from a tier1 like EPEL, or a tier2 like IUS. However a tier1 or tier2 could not rely on a tier3. A good real-world example of this would be rpmfusion's dependence on the EPEL repository. The other aspect of this that needs to be discussed is package duplication. For example, several of the proposed SIGs have some overlap in their packages. Would the preference here be that each SIG/Variant maintain their own version of the package, or should there be a common package set established? Both methods fit into the model described above, and both have pros/cons associated. What does the community think about this? -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77

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