The Call for Presentations for the CentOS Dojo at Facebook is now open,
and will close in about two weeks - on March 16th
We are looking for talks on all CentOS related topics:
* Large-scale installations
* SIG progress updates
* Containers
* System management tools (automation, or tools like Cockpit)
It's also worth noting that attendees of our FOSDEM Dojo requested more
talks about:
* Specific CentOS topics, many talks were not very CentOS related and
were then duplicated at the nearby FOSDEM
* CentOS internals
* id management. Integration with active directory
* Cloud and storage
* Containers
* How to get involved and where is help required
* How to contribute to CentOS
* New features in new releases, process of preparation new releases
The Dojo will be held on April 24th, at the Facebook campus.
Event details, and links to the Call for Presentations, are at
https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Facebook2020
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@CentOSProject // @rbowen
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Hi all,
Please see the latest AAA FAS replacement project update below:
AAA: FAS replacement project update 2/25/20
The month of February was a very busy month for the CPE AAA team and
community contributors working on this initiative. Great progress was made
in the development phase of the AAA: FAS replacement build. Sprint 2 and 3
resulted in the completion of multiple user stories which added user
functionality to join groups, change email address and password, disable
account, database access along with putting a mapping solution in place for
users moving from the current FAS to the new FAS (potential name
incoming!). We 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.
We received great support from the wider CPE team as well as Patrick
Uiterwijk to allow us progress with user stories by gaining permissions and
merging PR’s for the integration of CentOS CI. Christian Heimes assisted us
greatly with sharing his knowledge regarding FREE IPA and answered numerous
questions to allow us to move forward.
Sprint 4 began on Thursday the 20th of February. This sprint will focus on
development tasks which will include working on FAS Json, Free IPA, API,
Fedora Messaging integration, continuous deployment to stage environment,
developing a secure coding tool to ensure code adheres to best practice, as
well as continuing working on user functionality user stories. Please see
our github board here <https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6>to
view current activity.
We also received some sad news since our last update, that we are losing a
team member, Rick Elrod, as he moves on to pastures new with the Ansible
team. Rick provided an excellent POC for AAA which is leaving us in good
shape to continue on as planned. Thanks Rick and we will hopefully still
see you around as a contributor going forward. We also welcomed a new team
member Leonardo (Leo) Rossetti who joined at the start of Sprint 4 and has
already hit the ground running. Leo is currently working on our FAS JSON
user stories.
Regarding delivery of AAA, we may look at a phased release , this current
phase focus is on the development of AAA to be delivered by 3/31/20. It is
looking likely that the deployment of AAA will happen in a later phase due
to requiring System Admin assistance. We are likely to gain this on the
completion of the Colo Move (which is our planned data center move),
approximately in mid April. We are enquiring to see if deploying to staging
is possible within this phase to allow for a long testing period. I will
provide an update on this in our next blog. The integration of CentOS will
be worked on within an additional phase following the completion of AAA
centric stories for Fedora.
On a final note, I would like to commend the CPE AAA team on their
collaboration
and productivity throughout this initiative even in the face of unknowns,
team changes, cross team dependencies and other challenges, they continued
to proactively work together and find solutions to keep this initiative
moving forward.
We welcome all feedback, thoughts and contributions as we progress through
this project. Please feel free to comment on any issue to log your
thoughts.
For more information regarding outstanding issues, please see here.
<https://github.com/fedora-infra/securitas/issues>
To view our current scrum board, please see here.
<https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6>
Thanks all,
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hi everybody,
I want to ask devel about Openstack and/or cloud SIG in near future with
regards to Centos 8. Is there any future for it in Centos 8 and if yes
then, are there any scheduled releases perhaps?
many thanks, L.
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title: CPE Weekly status email
tags: CPE Weekly, email
---
# CPE Weekly: 2020-02-21
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
### Data Centre Move
* The F32 Schedule Key has been updated to include data centre move
implications: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-key-tasks.html
* The F32 Infrastructure has also been updated to include them too:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-infrastructure-tasks.html
* If you have an instance in the fedora private openstack cloud that,
please remove it, or lose it! This instance will be turned off on
2020-02-27. You have been warned! :)
### AAA Replacement
* I forgot **all** the links last week - my bad! So here is the
corrected AAA project work - the team are using a kanban board in
GitHub, not Jira for their work and their blog post to the Fedora
Community Blog is linked.
* The team made great progress in sprint 3, completing over 10
tickets! Check out their kanban board here:
https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6
* The blog post can also be viewed here:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/aaa-fas-replacement-project-update/
* The team meet on Jitsi Monday-Thursday @ 0915-0945 UTC to talk about
tickets they are working on (and to see each other :) ) and if you
wish to join, the link is here:
https://meet.jit.si/FedoraInfraAAAStandups
* They also update the #fedora-aaa channel on IRC with updates and
chat regularly about the project here too so feel free to join,
contribute or just observe!
### CI/CD
* The team has managed to get its monitor-gating script deployed and
running on openshift in staging and it has already identified an issue
with the packager workflow there (in this case in waiverdb, a ticket
has been opened upstream to investigate it).
* The team wrote a document listing all the ideas they
investigated/thought about for dropping changelog and release fields
from spec file
* The team made a decision on the recommended approach that will be
submitted to the devel list for further consideration and inputs.
### Sustaining Team
* The ongoings of these ongoings, are ongoing :)
* Infra and Releng tickets are reviewed daily (Mon-Fri) in
#fedora-admin at 1900UTC.
* * Packit integration in the-new-hotness
https://github.com/packit-service/packit/issues/689
* * Jms-messaging-plugin reviews
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/169https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/168https://github.com/jenkinsci/jms-messaging-plugin/pull/162
* * Compose-tracker now track the time a compose takes, more info here
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org…
## Docs
### Misc Updates
### Git Forge Requirements
* Thank you for your engagement on our Git Forge requirements emails.
We have received (a lot of) content from (a lot of) sources both
internally and externally.
* A decision around the Git Forge is still some time away yet, as this
decision impacts so many, but we will keep you up to date on where we
are in the process on a weekly basis via this email blast.
* Right now we are compiling requirements we have received into a
complete set to be able to move to a technical comparison of services
between Pagure vs GitHub vs GitLab.
* We expect to have the requirements set done by March 11th and will
make the requirements available to view as soon as they are all
accounted for.
* If our dates change, good or bad, we will keep you updated and thank
you for your patience and understanding as always!
## CentOS Updates
### CentOS
* Tycho module has been unblocked which was needed for jmc
* Data is being moved for CentOS Infra and trying a new solution for
backups https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-centos-backup/commit/e32fb06b74c506c…
* VDO was deployed for storage duplication and compression
* CentOS CI is stable overall with an updated fedora image and
python-tox fix, which is allowing the AAA/Securitas team move forward
with integrating CentOS account auth in this project too.
### CentOS Stream
* The packit team are trying out the dev/staging instances of git.centos.org
* We have been receiving regular updates over the last two days
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
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Product Owner
Community Platform Engineering Team
Red Hat EMEA
Communications House
Cork Road
Waterford
For the past two years, I've hosted a CentOS Dojo at DevConf.US in
Boston. Each time it has been a struggle to find speakers, and then we
had pretty poor attendance.
This year, DevConf.US (CFP is now open!) has moved away from Boston
University, to the Sheraton in Framingham.
My question to this audience is whether it's worth our time trying to
put together a Dojo to be held on the Tuesday of that event - September
22nd - at that same location.
I would need roughly 10 speakers, and about 75 attendees, to make it
worthwhile to do this.
Please do let me know, either on-list or off-list, if you think you'd be
interested in either speaking or attending.
For those that don't know, a Dojo is a one-day event featuring technical
content from anywhere in the CentOS ecosystem. Details here:
https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo
Thanks!
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Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com
@CentOSProject // @rbowen
859 351 9166
I need keys created for a Messaging Sig. I filled request back in Oct. '19,
but it is still outstanding. Can someone assist in creating this key?
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16198
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Regards, Irina.
Hi All!
We have been dealing with a memory leak in the kernel for IKEv2 and IPSec
connections relating to a memory leak in xfrm support on both el8 and el7.
The symptom of this issue is that memory will continue allocating in slab
over time making a box oom after too many connections.
As per some external discussions I am sending the patch + bug report on to
this list. It has already been accepted into upstream kernels (4.19
included) and is a pretty straight forward backport. I have tested and
installed this on a few centos8 systems to validate that this does indeed
solve the memory leak issue.
rbz# 1780470