[These are publishing a little late, I got busy and fell behind partially because the
agenda/minutes process has multiple steps where blockages occurred. I'll keep working
to improve the underlying process to make the production of these agendas and minutes
more reliably consistent.]
https://blog.centos.org/2020/03/minutes-for-centos-board-of-directors-2020-…
On 2020-02-12 the CentOS Board of Directors met and discussed several ongoing efforts
across the Project.
The opening discussion was around the new work to evolve the project logo and branding
identity being conducted in open channels. Overall the Directors really liked the
direction the effort is going and were quite pleased with the open nature of the
process. What is needed to bring a conclusion and present a final design for the Board’s
approval is the completion of the open design discussion and decision process to be
conducted in centos-devel.
As the Board is working on adding new Directors and improving governance and transparency,
there is an open discussion around the possibility of having a face-to-face meeting of
the Board in 2020. This ideally would include an additional day of interactions with other
project leadership. One idea floated was to conduct this prior to the CentOS Dojo being
planned at CERN in October 2020. At the time of this writing, it is unknown if this Dojo
will be affected by COVID-19 related or other travel restrictions.
On another topic, in addition to the focused resources of the Community Platform
Engineering (CPE) team that supports the CentOS Project in technical ways, Karsten gave
a brief explanation of how the Community Architects from the Red Hat Open Source Program
Office (OSPO) are in support of the project, specifically Rich Bowen on the community side,
Brian Exelbierd on the business interaction side, and Karsten Wade on the strategic and
visionary side.
>From the Brussels Dojo, Karsten gave a report out about how he had a meeting room for
one-to-one discussions with community members. These discussions were an invitation to
talk about what works and doesn’t work for users and contributors around the project; an
open office hours to hear out anything. It also served to help get an idea of how and why
people use CentOS as a platform. This work is to help inform the CentOS 2020 open goals
discussion now underway.
In support of these efforts, the Board came to the following decisions, resolutions, and
agreements:
1. Logo redesign
1. AGREED: Board is requesting Tuomas to lead the discussion on centos-devel toward
creating the final /branding redesign proposal for the Board to give final approval
on. This process should follow an open decision process of inviting participation,
hearing out other ideas, and taking and incorporating feedback on the existing design
ideas into the final plan. All this can be done over a reasonable time period of four
to eight weeks, so that a decision can be reached that has an opportunity to include
voices from across the community.
2. Board face-to-face
1. AGREED: Board will watch the travel situation with an eye toward deciding yay/nay
on the face-to-face as the June timeframe approaches.
2. ACTION: Board will request RIch Bowen to coordinate with the Board Secretary on plans
for adding meetings around the CERN Dojo.
3. Consent items
1. Adopt minutes from 2020-01-08 meeting
2. Noting that Fabian Arrotin has resigned his role as a CentOS Project Director as of
October 2019.
4. Rolling (last from 2020-01-08):
1. Any other topics aka What other things do you want on our master initiatives list?
2. Stepping-up our meeting norms
3. Transparency initiatives
Present at the meeting:
* Ralph Angenendt
* Jim Perrin
* Mike McLean
* Karsten Wade (Secretary)
* Johnny Hughes
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Earlier this month this was a report that softhsm was available but not
installable in CentOS 8 due to a "No available modular metadata for
modular package" error. The solution was to enable the idm:DL1 module,
but my understanding is that modular packages shouldn't be visible while
their modules are disabled (this seems to be the behaviour in RHEL 8).
Looking in
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/ there
are two versions of softhsm in the AppStream repository:
* softhsm-2.4.0-2.module_el8.1.0+253+3b90c921.x86_64.rpm
* softhsm-2.4.0-2.module_el8.1.0+265+e1e65be4.x86_64.rpm
The repository's modules.yaml file only describes one version of the
module, idm:DL1:8010020200121181805:4a0acb9a:x86_64, which owns the
newer package. When idm:DL1 is enabled this masks the older softhsm
version but when it's disabled (the default) the newer package is
removed from view, and with no repository metadata to indicate that the
older softhsm is part of a module it effectively becomes an ordinary
member of the AppStream repository.
So "dnf install softhsm" offers two different package versions based on
whether or not idm:DL1 is enabled, instead of failing with "Error:
Unable to find a match" when the module is disabled.
You can see a similar thing with the go-toolset module. It's enabled by
default and disabling it should hide all of its packages. Instead,
because a second version has been published (see the two versions of
go-toolset, golang, etc at the earlier URL), disabling go-toolset makes
the previous versions of all the packages appear as ordinary members of
the AppStream repository.
I found https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16808 from around the time
of the 8.0 release querying the lack of older version data, and have
commented on it, but I wanted to confirm that I haven't misunderstood
the expected behaviour. For example, if nodejs:12 receives an update
and the earlier package versions drop out into the main AppStream
repository it seems that this might cause conflicts for someone
installing nodejs from a third party repository, even if they've
disabled nodejs:12.
---
title: CPE Weekly status email
tags: CPE Weekly, email
---
# CPE Weekly: 2020-03-06
Background:
The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining
IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep
core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and
other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers
can give.
For better communication, we will be giving weekly reports to the
CentOS and Fedora communities about the general tasks and work being
done. Also for better communication between our groups we have
created #redhat-cpe on Freenode IRC! Please feel free to catch us
there, a mail has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists
with context here.
## Fedora Updates
* Fedora Minimal Compose is being worked on currently for F32 beta
### Data Centre Move
* Please start to plan for 2-3 week outage of communishift starting
2020-04-12 to allow for the move
* Due to the data centre move, we cannot get a new box to run odcs-backend
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8721
* We are also scoping the work required for 'Minimum Viable Fedora' -
here is the link to the mail as a refresher of what to expect, and
what not https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedorapr…
Our move dates are as follows:
* Move 1 April 13 to IAD2 (essential hardware)
* Move 2 April 13 to RDU-CC (communishift)
* Move 3 May 11 to IAD2 (QA equipment)
* Move 4 June 1 to IAD2 (anything and everything else)
### AAA Replacement
* Sprint 5 will see the team focusing on integration with FASJSON API
and 2FA token
* We have also decided to postpone testing of the new solution until
post data centre move to make sure it is
* As always, check out our progress on github here
https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6
### CI/CD
* Monitor-Gating: Blocked in staging because F32 isn’t branched off
there yet (Koji, Bodhi, PDC, https://pagure.io/releng/issue/9293)
* Automatic Release Tags and Changelog: Ongoing Devel-list thread here
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org…
* The team have moved to Jitsi video conferencing with interested
community members (ngompa, clime, mboddu, mhroncok) about the
different approaches to automatic release tags. Result: Approach
considering existing EVRs most palatable (over <#commits>.<#builds>).
* We now have a more official looking repo:
https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/rpmautospec
* The team also created implementation details and roadmap:
https://hackmd.io/2iQUWeLdR1uTSJ6WL2JqBA
### Sustaining Team
* Old cloud is now officially retired
* Bodhi XSS vulnerability patched
* The team are also looking to prepare a Bodhi 5.2 release
* Fedora Minimal Compose (Use ODCS to trigger test composes)
* The team are also scoping the Mbbox upgrade and Task breakdown
https://github.com/fedora-infra/mbbox/projects/1
* Support community members helping with Badges outage
* The teams has started a conversation about Infra Ticket prioritization
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedorapr…
## Docs
### Misc Updates/Review Requests
* Initial f32-updates-testing push is fixed
https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/3936
* Fixed perms on f32 ostree to finish updates pushes
* Anitya tests are fixed
https://github.com/fedora-infra/anitya/commit/8fe224dbc6b8071f5c5e6f11abe15…
* Failing tests in the-new-hotness being resolved
https://github.com/fedora-infra/the-new-hotness/pull/273
* Please review Packit integration in the-new-hotness
https://github.com/packit-service/packit/issues/689
* Please review KeepassXC flatpak issue
https://pagure.io/flatpak-module-tools/issue/6
* Please review Jms-messaging-plugin reviews
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/162
## CentOS Updates
### CentOS
* Ppc64le kickstarter added for CentOS 8
* This will still need to be tested and added in production
* The infrastructure is stable overall though!
### CentOS Stream
* We are now working on the sync-to-git process
* Tycho module was successfully added to Stream in development!
* We are also getting closer to having a contributor workflow model
available for later this year - watch this space!
* We are also working with upstream to generate reports for Stream too
As always, feedback is welcome, and we will continue to look at ways
to improve the delivery and readability of this weekly report.
Have a great weekend!
Aoife
Source: https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ
--
Aoife Moloney
Product Owner
Community Platform Engineering Team
Red Hat EMEA
Communications House
Cork Road
Waterford
Due to the change in the status of Red Hat Summit
(https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/moving-red-hat-summit-2020-virtual-experience),
we have made the decision to postpone the CentOS Dojo at Facebook to a
later date. Many of our potential speakers, as well as many of our
attendees, had travel plans that were dependent on attendance at Red Hat
Summit, and without that event happening they are no longer able to travel.
If you have already registered for the event, we encourage you to stay
registered, so that we have an easy way to contact you about event
updates through Eventbrite.
We do still plan to hold an event at Facebook, but, due to the current
corona virus situation, we are holding off on making any firm plans
until the danger has passed.
We thank you for your patience and understanding, and hope to see you
when we reschedule.
--
Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com
@CentOSProject // @rbowen
859 351 9166
Sending this to the correct mailing list.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert(a)physics.uu.se>
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 11:17 PM
Subject: [EPEL-devel] gnu-free-fonts-20120503-18.el8.0.1 still not
tagged into dist-c8-compose
To: <epel-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Hi.
I was asked to repost a thread from the CentOS forum on this mailing
list:
Sorry for starting a new thread. But there has not been any activity on
the old thread for a month (2020-02-05) except for my request for a
status update a week ago (2020-02-26) for which there was no reply.
Can someone please tag the update so that it can be installed by users.
The packages available to users are still broken, even though the
update was built almost two month ago (2020-01-07).
For details please see the previous threads and bug reports:
https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=73346https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=72682https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16759https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16523
The bug was first reported 2019-10-03 and the fixed packages were built
2020-01-07 but are not yet available for installation/update and the
bug still affects users.
And before someone replies "should be fixed in RHEL first" before
reading the references above - this is a CentOS only bug that never
existed in RHEL.
Mattias
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== agenda 2020-02-12
From:
https://blog.centos.org/2020/02/agenda-for-centos-board-of-directors-meetin…
1. Do Directors have any questions or concerns about the process being followed to
update the CentOS Project logo? Full story in this blog post by Tuomas Kuosmanen:
https://blog.centos.org/2020/01/updating-the-centos-logo-and-visual-style/
1. Specific design concerns should be handled on centos-devel or in the design
repo discussion.
2. Having a face-to-face Board and/or leadership meeting in or near Paris in Summer
2020. What month might be good for Directors?
3. Directors and other Project leaders are invited and encouraged to collaborate
with the now four community architects from Red Hat working in/around the CentOS
Project: Rich Bowen, Brian Exelbierd, Tuomas Kuosmanen, and Karsten Wade.
4. Report out from Karsten on the Board interview/working session room at the Brussels
CentOS Dojo.
5. Consent items:
1. Adopt minutes from 2020-01-08 meeting
2. Noting that Fabian Arrotin has resigned his role as a CentOS Project Director as
of October 2019.
6. Rolling (last from 2020-01-08):
1. Any other topics aka What other things do you want on our master initiatives list?
2. Stepping-up our meeting norms
3. Transparency initiatives
== notes/thoughts
Hi all, travel and the awesome CentOS Dojo in Brussels caught me a few days behind on
finishing the agenda for this meeting. Honestly, my processes are still evolving over
how late to bring in items, keep adding until the last hours, and/or when to call a
cut-off and publish.
You can read Rich's report of the Dojo here:
https://blog.centos.org/2020/02/event-report-centos-dojo-brussels-jan-31-20…
Video from Dojo presentations has begun to be available in our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-IoMrffK5xG1UI-skkTlcA
--
Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid
Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen
https://community.redhat.com | https://next.redhat.com | https://theopensourceway.org
gpg: AD0E0C41 | https://red.ht/sig
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, at 13:37, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> On 9/27/19 3:29 PM, brian(a)bstinson.com (Brian Stinson) wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019, at 22:30, Lance Albertson wrote:
> >> When can we expect docker images with CentOS 8? I see there's already an issue [1] open for it. Is there anything we can do to help make it happen?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> [1] https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-images/issues/151
> >>
> >> --
> >> Lance Albertson
> >
> > Here's what we're working through:
> >
> > We have cloud and container images built, but we currently aren't happy with the base image size produced by our tooling.
> >
> > Both cloud and container images are in the QA process and we'll get them out as soon as they're ready.
>
> Any news on this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
`podman pull centos:8` should get you the container images.
Cloud images are something we're working through targeting the upcoming Stream 8 and Linux 8.1.1911 releases.
--Brian
---
title: CPE Weekly status email
tags: CPE Weekly, email
---
# CPE Weekly: 2020-02-28
Background:
The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining
IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep
core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and
other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers
can give.
For better communication, we will be giving weekly reports to the
CentOS and Fedora communities about the general tasks and work being
done. Also for better communication between our groups we have
created #redhat-cpe on Freenode IRC! Please feel free to catch us
there, a mail has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists
with context here.
## CentOS Updates
### CentOS
* 5 updates for el8
* 3 updates for el7
* EPEL7 container image on quay.io for python-tox
* Exploring fedora-infra jobs that can be containerized
### CentOS Stream
* Composes are now automated
* CentOS QA are now consuming compose in the test suite and running
against CentOS Linux and Stream!
* Building the contributor workflow is still ongoing and we will keep
you updated when we make some progress on this
## Fedora Updates
* F32 Beta Freeze now on
### Data Centre Move
* Old OpenStack instance has now been switched off.
* The team are planning the shipping logistics of the equipment across
country with Red Hat - measurements, weights, insurance amounts - fun
stuff! :)
* No changes to our expected dates as per our last posting, but if
there are we will make sure to let you know asap.
### AAA Replacement
Current functionalities developed to date:
* User functionality to join groups
* Uhange email address and password
* Disable account function
* Database access function
* We are also currently mapping solution on how best to have users
move from the current FAS to the new FAS (potential name incoming!).
* The team also came to the end of developing our wireframes and
mapping our user experience flow.
* Unit tests were carried out regarding password controller and the
current codebase.
Patrick Uiterijk and Christian Heimes still continue to be a huge help
to the team in this project so thank you both sincerely!
For our full blog post, check out Ben Cottons weekly
For more information regarding outstanding issues, please see here.
To view our current scrum board, please see here.
### CI/CD
* The team have made good progress on getting monitor-gating to run in staging
* This is running completely now and while it fails in some steps but
not because of itself, means it is already providing us valuable
information :)
* The team have sent an email to the devel list presenting our ideas
and potential proposal for the changelog and release fields proof of
concept - check it out here:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org…
### Sustaining Team
* Releng and Infra Freeze for Fedora 32 Beta is now, so if you need
changes have them reviewed.
* FMN is the main blocking point for the retirement of fedmsg, it is
also running on an eol Fedora (28) and the team are working on
replacing it. Check out their public thread here:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org…
## Docs
### Misc Updates
* Some packaging work to get pagure's dependencies added and built in
EPEL8 (remaining: pygit2 and celery) were done this week
* boot.fedoraproject.org and keys.fpo to wiki page has been retired
* koji is being set up to have rhscl and rhdevtools for EPEL-7
* infra 8664 - newer kernel on aarch64-test machines.
* infra 8369 - people css and html broken so a patch has been applied
from new contributor and pushed out
* Investigations into why fedora 32 branched compose was stuck & it
was ostree signing.
https://pagure.io/robosignatory/issue/44https://pagure.io/pungi/issue/1350
* Broken epel8-testing update push was fixed and is now resumed
* Rawhide compose failure was investigated
https://pagure.io/releng/failed-composes/issue/1023
Was ceph. Filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805422
untagged it and refired compose.
* Vagrant environment for mbbox was worked on
https://github.com/fedora-infra/mbbox/pull/1
* Mbbox was moved to fedora-infra
https://github.com/fedora-infra/mbbox
* Jms-messaging-plugin PRs merged
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/169https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/168
* Alternative “holistic heuristic” algorithm for computing releases
was implemented
https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/generate_changelog/pull-request/3
Common Python package, modules and misc cleanup
https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/generate_changelog/pull-request/4
* Update and complete README was worked on
https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/generate_changelog/pull-request/5
As always, feedback is welcome, and we will continue to look at ways
to improve the delivery and readability of this weekly report.
Have a great weekend!
Aoife
Source: https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ
--
Aoife Moloney
Product Owner
Community Platform Engineering Team
Red Hat EMEA
Communications House
Cork Road
Waterford
Dear CentOS community,
After 2 weeks of testing, with the infrastructure team and selected
SIGs, C8 buildroots are now available in https://cbs.centos.org
If you would like to request a tag please use the "Buildsys" project at:
https://bugs.centos.org
* During this week I'll review old requests/tickets, but please ping me
on IRC if you see no activity.
* The next steps ordered by priority:
- Tackle the missing -devel packages from C8 that blocks builds for SIGs
- Make C8 Stream buildroots available.
- distgit integration with koji.
- evaluate alternative to mash (koji dist-repo) and/or improve current
scripts [1].
- improve the signing process.
- evaluate C8 as builder nodes.
Thank you for your patience and feedback during the past months.
--
Thomas 'alphacc' Oulevey on behalf of the Infrastructure Team.
[1]: https://git.centos.org/centos/cbs-tools