[CentOS-devel] CPE Weekly: 2019-11-22

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

-- 
Aoife Moloney

Feature Driver

Community Platform Engineering Team

Red Hat EMEA

Communications House

Cork Road

Waterford