# CPE Weekly: 2020-04-14 --- title: CPE Weekly status email tags: CPE Weekly, email ---

Hi All,

Apologies for the delayed weekly mail, I enjoyed a lovely four-day weekend with my family over Easter which was important and didn't get around to sending this email.

The upside is you get two emails from me this week instead :)

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 * Initial conversations have started with GitLab to investigate options and weight them against more refined requirements to make sure we reach the best possible outcome * We are still engaging with Fedora Council https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/292 * We are also engaging with the CentOS board too * And we are looking at ways to have open conversations/Q&A sessions in public forums too as we move through this journey.

## Fedora Updates * F32 release first go/no-go meeting is scheduled for this week to review the estimated release date of 21st April * Calendar for meetings here https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/Fedora%20release/ * F32 release schedule here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/32/Schedule

### Data Centre Move * CommuniShift is now down until May 8th est. to facilitate the data centre move that has now officially begun. * Please see our list of affected https://hackmd.io/hpYYJQRjQy-oHxUS7IonIA * Our first few sets of hardware have been deracked and are awaiting collection from PHX2 this week. * Please check our schedule here - we are on Week 06 https://hackmd.io/R3EkjzVyTG2TYwQvkfzYrA

### AAA Replacement * The team are planning phase two of the replacement which will target UX/UI improvements,

### CI/CD

* rpmautospec * Call for testers has been sent to the devel-announce list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedorapro... * Documentation is also being refined on: * How it works * What are its peculiarities * How to opt-in * What is working and what isn't yet * What remains to do before this gets pushed to production * Thank you for your feedback!

### Sustaining Team * Mbbox Upgrade * The team are making good progress on the koji-builder & koji-hub CRD https://github.com/fedora-infra/mbbox/pull/20 * They also have resolved the issue with PVC in the mbox-operator https://github.com/fedora-infra/mbbox/pull/23 * We are now looking into CI support and the work that this will involve * Bodhi * Investigation database lockups, seems related to celery worker not completing their tasks * Working on a 5.3 release * Releng * fedscm-admin 1.0.13 released * Future openh264 composes will use ODCS, script is added to releng repo * Infra * The daily standup the team has has helped a lot with managing infra tickets - they are down to 99 tickets! * Mass update of stg and prod * Please note you may experience some Kojira slowness * New review-stats application deployed - (https://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/)

## CentOS Updates

### CentOS * CentOS CI is stable and all working fine * Investigation for cloud vms addition to cico is also underway * RHEL 8.1 batch update 07-Apr

### CentOS Stream * We have now ~200 packages built in CentOS Stream & we expect a few hundred more to become available to us soon! * The team are also still working on general compose config, koji tag & housekeeping :)

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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Aoife Moloney Product Owner Community Platform Engineering Team Red Hat EMEA Communications House Cork Road Waterford