Hi everyone,

Welcome to the CPE team weekly project update mail!

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:

•  The team is working with CERN about koji upgrade process for cbs.centos.org

• CentOS CI 

• JMS messaging  plugin now in testing

• Ack of messages is still missing but the fix is in progress

• Both publishing & consuming are working

• Mirrorlist code change for CentOS 8

• Investigating a phpbb upgrade for www.centos.org/forums and fr.centos.org/forums hosts

Fedora:

Rawhide Gating: 

• 5.0 pre-release is ue in staging by hopefully the end of this week

• New Koji has been deployed in production

• https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8244

• Requests for side-tags via fedpkg seems to work

• https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8280

• Createrepo for side tag in koji is now 45-seconds for a side-tag - this is lower than before, so making progress!

• https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8245

• Fedora Messaging:

• Ci-resultsdb-listener is waiting on ci.centos.org to be finished/deployed.

• Fedora-messaging code has been merged

• New release will support new message from the CI system

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• Increased push performance by 51%!

Application Handover to Community

• Elections: Blocked by this issue - PostgreSQL database is missing in application catalogue https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8253

• Badges: Thread has been started to get a decision with new maintainers

• Packagedb-cli: Retired.

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

• Elections: Move to CommuniShift underway but blocked by this issue before complete

•  https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8253

• Fedocal:  Possible maintainer found & the team are/will engage to finalize

• https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8274

• Deadline for commitment to maintain is still 15th October

• Nuancier: Maintainer(s!) are identified and the team are engaging in a conversation :)

• There is also a conversation happening in Fedora infra channel about changes in Nuancier.

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

Misc highlights from various parts of the ecosystem:

• FPDC: No Update

• CI Initiative: Disg-git test of CentOS infra conversation happening here https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8279

• Bug in Koji plugin was resolved so sending signing messages has resumed.

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8158

• cpe/infra-docs repo is being removed from pagure and we are now going to use infra-docs-pagure instead. Working with an active contributor in the repo to make sure there are no problems.

• Final freeze started on Tuesday 8th October