# CPE Weekly 2020-04-04 --- 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. Check out our teams info here https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/

## GitForge Updates Idea for note: *There has been a lot of discussion this week on the devel and infra lists about the decision to move to GitLab in the near future. Firstly, let us apologize again to the communities for our drop in communication between the requirement collecting phase and the decision making phase. As we have said before, it was in no way, shape or form an intentional lapse of communications. However we do recognize that it was still nonetheless a decision that was not made in public, and for that we can only now offer our apologies for this mistake and learn a hard lesson from it. We do want to let you know that we deeply appreciate the requirements you have given us and would like to ask you to continue engaging with us while we are moving through our next steps with GitLab. While the discussions on the lists are deeply emotional, they are still incredibly valuable to us to truly comprehend the importance of our next steps in ensuring we make the right choices in the coming months. Now more than ever, your guidance is needed to make sure we achieve the best possible result for you and our team from this decision. CPE management and I, our team's product owner, are also actively engaging with the Fedora Council and soon the CentOS Board to make sure that ALL of the developments and progress between us and GitLab are publicly available. We have a long way to go in this process and your feedback on our progress will be vital to make sure we remain on course. We hope in time you can understand our decision was made in good intent for the betterment of both our team and the communities we serve, and we hope to still be able to rely on you all as peers and friends for feedback and guidance during this journey.*

## CentOS Updates

### CentOS * CentOS CI is stable with 0 downtime! * RHEL 7.8 released this week too!

### CentOS Stream * qt5, go-toolest (module), container tools (module) are updated to their 8.2 versions * We are also looking at easier automation of koji tags

## Fedora Updates * Final Freeze starts 7th April 2020 @ 1400 UTC * Pagure 5.9.1 release pushed to both staging and pagure.io * the-new-hotness configuration was updated https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8783 * Michal Konečný has been working on mapping the fedora infrastructure applications, his project, (which sounds really cool and useful!) can be found here https://github.com/Zlopez/fedora-infra-map

### Data Centre Move * Please note Communishift will be down from 13th April - 8th May to facilitate the first shipment wave of our datacenter * We are also still on track to switch to a reduced Fedora offering from 25th May until est. 1st July*. * For a list of services we are planning to have available during this window, please see mail thread in archive https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedorapro... * We will not have staging available so we will not have capacity to review or deploy new or upgraded features and applications during this time. * As always, please view our public schedule here for more a more detailed overview https://hackmd.io/@fedorainfra2020/rJpsA4FLL#First-draft-of-schedule-for-PHX... * We found a password, we do not know whose it is, but we have turned it into the lost and found.

### AAA Replacement * First development phase complete & the team worked through 57 tickets in total * The codebase was sent to our team first for demo and we will be using feedback to develop the portal further * During phase two we would like to change some codebases in existing apps, and write documentation on how to upgrade applications to redirect to the new API * We would like to roll this request for feedback out to some community maintainers during this phase too for another iteration on the service and documentation * Our work is publicly tracked here https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6 so please stop by and check out the progress we are making, and what we are looking at working on next

### CI/CD

* Monitor-gating is still running in production and giving us some data about the health of the packager workflow: * For example, these are the statistics between Monday and Wednesday: 39 messages retrieved prod.monitor-gating.multi-build.end.failed -- 7 prod.monitor-gating.multi-build.end.succeeded -- 2 prod.monitor-gating.multi-build.start -- 10 prod.monitor-gating.single-build.end.failed -- 3 prod.monitor-gating.single-build.end.succeeded -- 7 prod.monitor-gating.single-build.start -- 10 * rpmautospec 0.0.1 through 0.0.10 have been released and deployed in staging * We got two builds to go through fine, from the same commit, getting two different NEVR and an auto-generated changelog * However, for this to happen, we had to tweak a couple of things on the builder which is not really ideal/acceptable, so we moved a part of the processing inside the chroot where the SRPM will be built, which solved the main issues we faced * To be done: Make tagging (latest) existing builds a separate operation executed outside the build root, to avoid having to talk to Koji inside it. * In other words: Stay put, we're getting there!

### Sustaining Team * Mbbox * The team have made some progress on koji-builder CRD * The team are also working on Bodhi 5.3 with few improvements and bug fixes from 5.2. * The team had a reboot and Update cycle this week. * The team are also discussing ideas around a releng bot to help process the tickets that require manual interventions. * They also add more updates to compose-tracker * And started playing with odcs on new odcs-backend-releng01.phx2.fedoraproject.org

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/gSci385uRoeNVEuoNUS1pg?view