Originally published at: Infra and RelEng Update - Week 08 2025 – Fedora Community Blog
This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. 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: 17-21 Feb 2025
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
- In progress:
- re-add datagrepper nagios checks (and add to zabbix?)
- Fix logrotate on kojipkgs01/02
- RISC-V Koji Administration
- 2025 datacenter move (IAD2->RDU3)
- [CommOps] Open Data Hub on Communishift
- retire easyfix
- Add StartInstanceRefresh permission for fedora-ci-testing-farm user in AWS
- Deploy Element Server Suite operator in staging
- Create CentOS calendar
- Pagure returns error 500 trying to open a PR on https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-setuptools-gettext
- a real domain name for konflux
- Create a POC integration in Konflux for fedora-infra/webhook-to-fedora-messaging
- maubot-meetings bot multi line paste is cut
- setup ipa02.stg and ipa03.stg again as replicas
- Manage our new testing.farm domain via AWS Route53
- Add support for creating RDS instances under `testing-farm-` prefix
- Move OpenShift apps from deploymentconfig to deployment
- The process to update the OpenH264 repos is broken
- httpd 2.4.61 causing issue in fedora infrastructure
- Support allocation dedicated hosts for Testing Farm
- EPEL minor version archive repos in MirrorManager
- vmhost-x86-copr01.rdu-cc.fedoraproject.org DOWN
- Add yselkowitz to list to notify when ELN builds fail
- Cleaning script for communishift
- move resultsdb-ci-listener deployment pipeline
- Setup RISC-V builder(s) VM in Fedora Infrastructure
- Move from iptables to firewalld
- Help me move my discourse bots to production?
- rhel9 adoption
- Replace Nagios with Zabbix in Fedora Infrastructure
- Migration of registry.fedoraproject.org to quay.io
- Done:
- Transfer ownership of asahi stuff owned by leifliddy to myself
- Spam on devel list
- Bodhi is not allowing logins
- Setting up Cavil for automated legal checks for packages
- Incomplete dist-git repository created by releng-bot
- fix handlers from/for ansible-lint
- [FMTS] TLS certificate for fmn service is about to expire in 30 days
- enable EPEL 10 collection in koschei
- Retirement of `monitor-dashboard` tracker
- rhel7 eol
- rhel7 EOL – github2fedmsg
- fedmsg -> fedora-messaging migration tracker
CentOS Infra including CentOS CI
- In progress:
- Testing Jenkins won’t let us log in
- Increase Storage capacity for koji built artifacts
- Testing Jenkins – c10s x86_64 metal doesn’t provision
- Release Improvements
- CentOS Stream new mirror
- Onboarding new infra SIG member
- Redesign mirror network due to Equinix stopping OSS sponsorship
- Migrate main backup storage pool to different hardware
- Making CentOS Stream CoreOS available
- Migrate NS glue records to new infra
- [spike] : investigating options/alternatives for the upcoming DC move
- [spike] : investigating ipsilon 2.1.0 => 3.0.x upgrade
- Done:
Release Engineering
- In progress:
- Unretire plexus-interactivity
- Unretire woodstox-core
- Create `image-builder-build` koji build group
- Retirements broken in Rawhide
- rpms/sssd – The permissions on this repository are being updated.
- Please untag tinysparql-3.8~rc-3.fc42
- Fedora 42 Mass Branching Tracker
- please remove unwanted rpmdevtools commit accidentally pushed to rawhide branch
- 300+ F42FTBFS bugzillas block the F41FTBFS tracker
- Packages that have not been rebuilt in a while or ever
- Fedora 42 Mass Rebuild Tracker
- Missing rawhide branch for recently created package ‘pybind11-json’
- Send compose reports to a to-be-created separate ML
- .sqlite metadata missing in f41-updates and f41-updates-testing repositories
- please create epel10 based el10-openjdk tag
- Could we have fedoraproject-updates-archive.fedoraproject.org for Rawhide?
- Investigate and untag packages that failed gating but were merged in via mass rebuild
- a few mass rebuild bumps failed to git push – script should retry or error
- Package retirements are broken in rawhide
- Implement checks on package retirements
- Untag containers-common-0.57.1-6.fc40
- orphan-all-packages.py should remove bugzilla_contact entries from fedora-scm-requests as well
- Packages that fail to build SRPM are not reported during the mass rebuild bugzillas
- When orphaning packages, keep the original owner as co-maintainer
- Create an ansible playbook to do the mass-branching
- RFE: Integration of Anitya to Packager Workflow
- Fix tokens for ftbfs_weekly_reminder. script
- Update bootloader components assignee to “Bootloader Engineering Team”for Improved collaboration
- Done:
- Reset epel10 branch of python-sybil
- Failed epel10 branch request for spirv-headers
- Stalled EPEL package: python-smbprotocol
- please create f43-openjdk sidetag
- stalled EPEL request: jetbrains-mono-fonts
- Please delete `upgrade-0.0.6` branch from rust-libphosh-sys
- F42 Self-Contained Change: Switch to EROFS for Live Media
- Please remove two branches from octave-iso2mesh
- F42 system-wide change: GNU Toolchain update for F42 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GNUToolchainF42
- Delete “firefox-fix” branch in xdg-desktop-portal
- Cleaning old stuff from koji composes directories
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