Infra and RelEng Update – Week 30 2024 – Fedora Community Blog

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team as the CPE initiatives are in most cases tied to I&R work.

We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 22 – 26 July 2024

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

The purpose of this team is to take care of day to day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.).
List of planned/in-progress issues

Fedora Infra

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

CPE Initiatives

EPEL

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL) and Oracle Linux (OL).

Updates

Community Design

CPE has few members that are working as part of Community Design Team. This team is working on anything related to design in Fedora Community.

Updates

• F42 wallpaper theme is Quest!
• Podman desktop: working on refining page layouts and integration with other apps.

ARC Investigations

The ARC (which is a subset of the CPE team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might take on.

Updates

• Dist Git Move
  • Ryan Lerch worked on deploying Forgejo in the Fedora Infrastructure OpenShift
  • Akashdeep Dhar has completed with around 80% with the GitLab investigation
  • Tomas Hrcka  has been in touch with the QA team on Monday during their
    • frantisekz from the QA team would be the point of contact for us to help with the Dist Git Move ARC investigation process
    • The QA team would provide us with the documentation that would help us with the investigation that involves Dist Git and Bugzilla
    • Limited access would be provided to those who proposed the user stories as well as those who request for the same to help with the ARC investigation
  • David Kirwan to work on the GitLab deployment on Fedora Infrastructure OpenShift
    • No proper deployment would be made for the ephemeral GitLab
    • Deployment will be torn down after around a couple of weeks from Flock announcement
    • GitLab deployment would be announced about during Flock To Fedora
  • FESCO nominated Stephen Gallagher who would be the point of contact from their end to help with the Dist Git Move ARC investigation
    • Tomas Hrcka plans to connect with Stephen Gallagher and reach back to the team with the inputs/outputs
    • Akashdeep Dhar proposed to use the #fedora-arc:fedora.im channel instead for a more asynchronous communication

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