Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening Everyone,

Welcome to week four of the CPE Weekly Updates!

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.

CentOS

Mirrors
- Switched https://mirror-status.centos.org to centos 7 node (ansible managed)

CentOS CI
- Investigating an issue with provisioning CentOS 6 in duffyw
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/ci-users/2019-October/000971.html

Migrations:
- phpbb version is also updgraded on www.centos.org/forums and fr.centos.org/forums
- blog.centos.org is now moved to a new host/ansible role

Fedora

Rawhide Gating:

New Bodhi 5.0 release is now in staging
- Bodhi staging container being moved from rpms to source to allow for faster release

Staging
- Openshift issue blocking builds now resolved, can be viewed here ->https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8300
- Both Koji & fedpckg/rpckg all working well
- Looking into a way to trigger bodhi updates rather than builds in the CI pipeline
Tracked here -> https://pagure.io/fedora-ci/general/issue/70

Fedora Messaging:
- Ci-resultsdb-listener -> 1.0 release is out and running in staging (w/ support for fedora-messaging as well as the new message format)
- Results with the new format not fully showing on bodhi in staging yet so the team is investigating!

- Bugzilla2fedmsg was down this week, the team are working to get it back online, if not already done so at the time of this email :)

- el8 is installed on aarch64/emag

- Documentation created on how packagers can use bodhi to manage Rawhide, including sidetags can be viewed here -> https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/2322

- Documentation reviewed and updates made here ->https://github.com/CentOS/docs-installation-guide/pull/9

- Changelog entry to update notes for automatic updates is added here -> https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/3548

repoSpanner:
- Performance prototype is now PR: https://github.com/repoSpanner/repoSpanner/pull/98
- Performance now boosted by 122%!!
- Now looking towards profiling on production-like hardware - stay tuned!

Community Handover Applications:

- Elections: Still blocked - please help!
PostgreSQL database is missing in application catalogue
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8253

- Fedocal: Maintainer found and the team are working through the handover

- Nuancier: New maintainer is currently working on OIDC authentication so keep an eye out for an update next week!

- Pastebin: Fpaste client has been updated and we are now working on redirecting fpaste.org and paste.fpo to the centos pastebin

Maintainers Needed:

- Tahrir: If you would like to volunteer to maintain this app, please let us know by 2019-12-31!

- Tahrir-api: If you would like to volunteer to maintain this app, please let us know by 2019-12-31!

Retiring Applications:

- Kitchen: Retiring on 2019-10-31

- Keys: Retiring on 2019-10-31

Comments? Suggestions? Feedback? Let Us Know!

And have a great weekend!

Kindest regards,
Aoife