Originally published at: Infra and RelEng Update - Week 31, 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: 28th July – 01st August, 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:
- Planned Outage – update/reboots – 2025-08-05 21:00 UTC
- reconfigure power10 machines
- [FMTS] TLS certificate for git-hooks service is about to expire in 30 days
- [FMTS] TLS certificate for batcave service is about to expire in 30 days
- [FMTS] TLS certificate for fmc service is about to expire in 30 days
- Forgejo: Owner access to @jflory7 for @CommOps
- Move copr_hypervisor group from iptables to nftables
- tmpwatch removed from ansible
- Link in staging distgit instance leads to prod auth
- Fix logrotate on kojipkgs01/02
- 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
- maubot-meetings bot multi line paste is cut
- Move OpenShift apps from deploymentconfig to deployment
- 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
- Recurring issue that Bugzilla stops sending messages to fedora-messaging
- Cleaning script for communishift
- Move from iptables to firewalld
- Port apps to OIDC
- Help me move my discourse bots to production?
- Migration of registry.fedoraproject.org to quay.io
- Done:
- Close ci@lists.fedoraproject.org
- Spam on devel list (x2)
- Spam on 389-users list
- Spam on design-team list
- mozjs115 – unable to disable monitoring
- Spam on flock-planning ML
- Enable Auto-Signing for f43-rebuild Mass-Rebuild Tag
- Pulling from registry.fedoraproject.org fails on Copr builders
- package review tracker pages not getting updated
- netapp storage for Forgejo stg/prod
- Minimal Communishift namespace to help with Discourse polls
- Request to increase resources for OpenScanHub
- src.fp.o gives Internal Server Errors until I prune cookies, repeats after 1/2 day
- Failed to download metadata (metalink: “https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=rawhide&arch=x86_64”) for repository “rawhide”
- [FMTS] TLS certificate for centos-koji service is about to expire in 30 days
- [FMTS] TLS certificate for gitlab-centos service is about to expire in 30 days
- After fedpkg fork, the fork shows a 404 error
- Post datacenter move work
- [RFE] expose metrics from rabbitmq queues for centos infra consumption (or others)
- Fedora Jitsi test instance
- re-add datagrepper nagios checks (and add to zabbix?)
- Build restarting on s390x builder
CentOS Infra including CentOS CI
- In progress:
- Done:
Release Engineering
- In progress:
- Unretire mozjs115
- Create rawhide+1+1 (F45) keys
- Please update koji builders to use koji-image-builder 8.
- readjust the ‘heavy-builder’ channel builders
- pybind11 PR cannot be merged
- Fedora 43 Mass Rebuild Tracker
- Improve the mass-tag script so it notify if something is broken and verify permissions
- When processing stalled EPEL package requests, make the requester EPEL bugzilla override
- Packages containg a “+” do not have a f42 branch
- Transfer/orphan packages owned by rdieter
- `–no-git-branch` option to fedpkg request-branch and creating the branch manually doesn’t work as expected
- Turn EPEL minor branching scripts into playbooks
- Mass retirement of packages with uninitialized rawhide branch
- 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
- Could we have fedoraproject-updates-archive.fedoraproject.org for Rawhide?
- Investigate and untag packages that failed gating but were merged in via mass rebuild
- 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:
- Untag fuse3-3.17.1-3.fc43
- Untag tomcat-10.1.36-9.fc43
- Untag gdk-pixbuf2-2.43.3-3.fc43
- Please sign the Fedora-IoT-42-20250724.1 compose for F42
- Unretirement request: ec2-instance-connect
- Enable NTSYNC kernel module (system-wide change proposal)
- Please unblock python-daiquiri
- golang-helm-3 not retired properly
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