Happy Friday 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. Also for better communication between our groups we have created #redhat-cpe on Freenode IRC! Please feel free to catch us there, a mail has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists with context here.

Note: This document is currently built from individual reports rolled into a google document which we edit and copy into a final document. We are aware that this causes problems with some email readers, and are working on a method to make this less problematic.

High Level Project Updates:

CentOS:

The team have been testing migrating away from Repospanner Wrote a PoC migration script (taking care also of requests/tickets/forks repositories) RCM confirmed that it works Next step is testing on https://git.stg.centos.org and we hope to have an ETA on a migration time soon

CentOS Stream Scoping meetings are ongoing

Fedora:

F31 Upgrades & Reinstallations Updated s390x buildvm’ Updated buildvmhost-s390x-01 Updated ppc9-01 to f31 and all guests to f31, added on bug about qemu in f31 on ppc64le not being able to do pseries-4.1 guests (the default), switched to pseries-4.0. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1769600 Re-installed buildvm-aarch64-01/02/03 and buildvm-armv7-01/02/03 with f31 and worked though issues with composes on them.

Rawhide Gating: Bodhi 5.0 has been deployed for a week now and we are getting some feedback on the new UI We hope to incorporate some of this feedback in the 5.1 release 5.1 will include a fix needed by the CI pipeline Ci pipeline on fedora-messaging JMS plugin has been updated That broke datagrepper: unix timestamp are in seconds, not milliseconds and postgresql doesn’t like the year 51850 Fedora-messaging client on resultsdb had broke Open ticket is for monitoring: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8392

repoSpanner 83x performance patch submitted as a pull request and is awaiting review. Once the 83x patch is merged, we hope that it will be possible to make a release/deployment. It is possible that it will still be too slow so our next idea for improvement involves changing the API that nodes use to synchronize objects with each other.

Application Retirements

Elections Blocking issue was fixed https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8253 Bcotton confirmed the fix is now in place - thanks Ben!

Fedocal No progress on kanban board last four weeks https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/fedora-calendar/kanban Jlanda is still hitting permission error in communishift https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8274 Working on running local instance

Nuancier Benson Muite is now working on OIDC authentication By creating a PR on Github, we should be able to see the progress New PR from sebwoj - Porting to Fedora messaging

Pastebin Magazine article posted after getting bounced between commblog and magazine a few times. On track for December 1 modernpaste shutdown

GDPR and privacy centric conversations are ongoing with respect to application handovers

Misc

Introduction of a dedicated team for community issues: The CPE Team have created a dedicated team to work through a backlog of issues that are affecting the community. The team has a 6 week plan ahead of them this side of the New Year Check out our Kanban board: https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/community-fire-team/kanban Our first priority task is to fix the bugzilla sync script Got its own upstream project: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Infra/distgit-bugzilla-sync/ We will be working on these items secondary to other work we have but will try to get some of these issues resolved soon!

EPEL 8 modularity: Modules are building in stg koji Tagging is working Bodhi testing is blocked on https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/3779 Nest steps are to test epel8 playground module composing

Comments? Suggestions? Feedback? Let Us Know!

Have a great weekend!

Aoife