Hi everyone,

I’d like to introduce myself first, my name is Aoife Moloney and I recently started with the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) team. My role within this team is going to be a hybrid role of a Product Owner / Project Manager.

As part of that, I want to send a weekly update to the lists to give an insight into what the CPE team have worked on over the past week or so. This will also be mirrored as a higher level blog to give maximum visibility.

We, as a team, welcome your input and comments and please do let us know how we can improve this community facing information segment!

As you know, the CPE team looks after interests in both Fedora and CentOS, so this update is also going to include work done on areas that are not your Community, but for transparency, we are including it :)

High Level Project Updates:

Fedora:

Rawhide Gating: 

• First work around merging side tags has been completed

• Open PR that needs to be finished

• We need to update our staging environment which broke when we branched F31 in production:

• Tracked in: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8838 

• Koji stuck/full: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8240 

• Overview page of the remaining blockers and dependencies organized at:

• https://hackmd.io/Gbuu9JOPR--Y2yNCBEYI5A?view 

• Input welcome for anything that would be missing

• https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/projects/3

• High priority items in the “Ready” column are all hard-dependency for pushing multi-builds to production

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• Race condition discovered has been fixed and tested

• Test suite has a number of issues which are being triaged and worked through at the moment

• Performance testing is next on our agenda

Application Retirements

• Badges has had some further conversations with community members and we are aligning on a handover date

• Packagedb-cli is being retired this week

• Documentation for onboarding contributors to Community OpenShift was started with a good mail thread on Fedora Devel

• Pastebin: Ongoing conversations with future maintainer, expecting an update in the next 2 weeks

• Elections: Ben Cotton is taking this over and the CPE team are assisting with moving this to Communishift

• Fedocal still needs your help, we need a Maintainer here urgently

• If no one steps up by October 15th, we will be looking at decommissioning it!

• Nuancier, we possibly have identified a maintainer here and the team are engaging in a conversation

Misc highlights from various parts of the ecosystem:

• FPDC had some light work on it, an instance of Kinto (http://docs.kinto-storage.org/en/stable/) was deployed in staging at https://fpdc.stg.fedoraproject.org/v1/ 

• Fedora Container base image update for F30, F31 and F32. (Dockerhub https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/6702, Registry.fp.o https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8846)

• Rawhide compose failures, due to podman gating, filed https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/3512 on it

• Announced F31 Beta freeze over, adjusted thing

• F31 Beta saw the team help in various places, everything went smoothly!

• Fixed pagure stunnel to use tls1.1/1.2 and a valid cert https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8231

• Fixed pagure event server to use valid cert with intermediate: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8224

• Mdapi app fully moved to OpenShift: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8238

• Branched versioned Fedora docs for F31

• Worked on updates to Fedora contributor docs

• Progressing more fedmsg → fedora messaging conversions on our scripting

• Fixed the Koji rpm.sign fedora-messaging message (https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8158)

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CentOS:

• CentOS 8 was released this week :)

• Core artifacts (repos and install media) were refreshed and sent to the mirrors

• CentOS Stream was built and staged

• Cloud and Container images are outstanding, coming up next

• Sources and debuginfo content synced to the mirrors

• Armhfp enablement coming soon

• Activities related to releasing CentOS 7.7 (17-September) and subsequently CentOS 8 (24-September) consumed the entire teams time!