Originally published at: Infra and RelEng Update - Week 16 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: 14 Apr – 18 Apr 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:
- FedoraQA – Testdays – OIDC setup
- Create COPR group
- Find old docs content on proxies and remove it
- redeploy aws proxies
- Disable self-serve project creation on pagure.io
- Link in staging distgit instance leads to prod auth
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Add fedora-l10n pagure group as an admin to the fedora-l10n-docs namespace projects
- 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
- Port apps to OIDC
- 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:
- COPR not running building when Webhook in GitLab or GitHub is triggered by push events
- RFE: improvement to blockerbugs app
- [freeze break request] Reinstallation of AWS Proxies
- https://src.fedoraproject.org/user/salimma gives “Gateway Timeout”
- Koji builds are failing because of autospec
- Still with OpenID
- Add StartInstanceRefresh permission for fedora-ci-testing-farm user in AWS
- Add support for creating RDS instances under
testing-farm-prefix
CentOS Infra including CentOS CI
- In progress:
- Release Improvements
- Upgrade cbs.stg koji env to el9
- Add proposed-updates c9s and c10s tags to hyperscale9s and hyperscale10s tags
- Missing s390x extras/extras-common repo
- Ensuring ansible automation in place can manage/control el10 nodes
- [spike] : investigating ppc64le kvm host option with el9/el10 (for Power10)
- (Cloud SIG) OKDerator CI/CD space
- [spike] : investigating needed deps (poetry) for duffy on el9
- [spike] : investigating options/alternatives for the upcoming DC move
- Done:
- ppc64le needs more memory per CPU for CS Koji builds
- Document – impact of datacentre move on Testing Jenkins
- Add kiwi to CentOS Stream Koji
- Replace some Infrastructure servers (out of warranty)
- Access to mail server for cloud-softwarefactory application mails
- mirror request : mirror.navercorp.com
- Decommission old https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/ instance
- Retire Public CI SIG
- Onboarding new infra SIG member
- Migrate main backup storage pool to different hardware
Release Engineering
- In progress:
- Fix OpenH264 tagging issues
- Unretire rpms/drawing
- Turn EPEL minor branching scripts into playbooks
- Accidentally created a branch in
rust-tonic-types - Mass retirement of packages with uninitialized rawhide branch
- Please send openh264-2.6.0 to Cisco
- 300+ F42FTBFS bugzillas block the F41FTBFS tracker
- Packages that have not been rebuilt in a while or ever
- 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
- Update pungi filters
- Implement checks on package retirements
- Untag containers-common-0.57.1-6.fc40
- Provide stable names for images
- 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:
- KDE & Cosmic-Atomic variants are missing from the release
- kdsingleapplication package missing in EPEL component lists?
- Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘epel’:
- Create Fedora 42 Final candidates
- inconsistent package list on epel10.1-openh264 tag
- Adjust torrent SOP/process to use correct checksum for KDE edition
- F42 stable push requests
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