Originally published at: Infra and RelEng Update - Week 11 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: 10 – 14 March 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:
- Blocked access to Fedora repositories
- OTP locked me out of my account
- Retire the Summer Coding mailing lists
- Network connectivity issues on koji builders (partial downloads, etc.)
- re-add datagrepper nagios checks (and add to zabbix?)
- Fix logrotate on kojipkgs01/02
- 2025 datacenter move (IAD2->RDU3)
- Broken link for STG IPA CA certificate, needed for staging CentOS Koji cert
- [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
- 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
- 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:
- Inactive provenpackagers for the F42 cycle
- Server returns HTTP 502 when trying to rollback Fedora Silverblue
- Fedora account interface returns HTTP error 500 when trying to link Red Hat Bugzilla account
- bvmhost-p09-03 ends in emergency mode
- Login to Bugzilla via FAS fails with “400 – Bad Request”
- Need to delete user account in FAS that has been already deleted in Discourse (discussion.fedoraproject.org) due to violations (spam, AI, etc.)
CentOS Infra including CentOS CI
- In progress:
- Increase Storage capacity for koji built artifacts
- Testing Jenkins – c10s x86_64 metal doesn’t provision
- Release Improvements
- upgrade mailman3 stack for django 4.x
- [spike] : investigating needed deps (poetry) for duffy on el9
- Onboarding new infra SIG member
- Migrate main backup storage pool to different hardware
- [spike] : investigating options/alternatives for the upcoming DC move
- Done:
Release Engineering
- In progress:
- Create Fedora 42 Beta candidates
- Please send openh264-2.6.0 to Cisco
- Unretire datanommer-commands and python-datanommer-models packages
- Create `image-builder-build` koji build group
- 300+ F42FTBFS bugzillas block the F41FTBFS tracker
- Packages that have not been rebuilt in a while or ever
- Fedora 42 Mass Rebuild Tracker
- Send compose reports to a to-be-created separate ML
- .sqlite metadata missing in f41-updates and f41-updates-testing repositories
- 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:
- Stalled EPEL package: perl-LockFile-Simple
- Stalled EPEL package: gcsfs
- epel8 branch not created successfully for cmrc
- Deprecating the gold linker
- Stalled epel package request: python-hamcrest
- F42 stable push requests
- Rawhide netinstall broken.
- Retirements broken in Rawhide
- Please untag tinysparql-3.8~rc-3.fc42
- Fedora 42 Mass Branching Tracker
List of new releases of apps maintained by I&R Team
- Patch update of CentOS CI Duffy from 3.4.0rc3 to 3.4.0 on 2025-03-12: https://github.com/CentOS/duffy/compare/v3.4.0rc3…v3.4.0
- Patch update of MD API from 3.1.6 to 3.1.7 on 2025-03-12: https://github.com/fedora-infra/mdapi/releases/tag/3.1.7
- Patch update of CentOS CI Duffy from 3.4.0rc2 to 3.4.0rc3 on 2025-03-11: https://github.com/CentOS/duffy/compare/v3.4.0rc2…v3.4.0rc3
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