Hello, friends,
It's been another busy month in the CentOS Project, so we'll get straight to the news:
CentOS Stream News
Last week, Brian Stinson , and a that the CentOS Stream 9 compose infrastructure is available at . We're in the process of updating the contributor guide, and that should be posted soon. Follow the centos-devel mailing list, and @CentOS on Twitter, to be the first to find out the next updates.
CentOS Dojo, May 13-14
The schedule for the upcoming CentOS Dojo is . The event will be online, and you will need to register (Free!) on the event website to attend. See you there!
@CentOSProject is now @CentOS
For the past few years, there have been two separate Twitter accounts for CentOS project news - @CentOS and @CentOSProject - and this has led to some confusion. We're pleased to announce that we've consolidated at , where you can follow KB's technical musings and other thoughts around his work and life.
Board nominations open
As you may have seen in the April board meeting minutes, two directors have decided not to run for the upcoming board term. Both of these directors - Karsten and Carl - have served on the board for 8 years, and we have appreciated their service and dedication to the project.
That leaves two seats to be filled in the upcoming term. As per our governance documents, the board selects replacement directors. But the community is asked for nominations for these seats. If you're thinking of someone you think would be a good board member, or if you'd like to nominate yourself, please have a look at the . Thanks!
We're excited at the prospect of bringing new members, with new enthusiasm, to the board, even as we say a fond farewell to long-serving directors, and we look forward to your nominations.
Code of Conduct
We have been working with the Fedora project to draft a new code of conduct, and this was , Red Hat's annual convention. CentOS had a steady stream of visitors in the CentOS/Fedora booth - thank you to all of you who came and talked with us.
There were a couple of sessions specifically about CentOS Stream - two "Ask the expert" sessions where attendees could ask their burning questions around CentOS Stream. These were very similar sessions, presented twice to make them convenient for people in different time zones. These were recorded, and you can watch them now, with free registration on the Summit platform.
CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux
If you have further questions about CentOS Stream, we encourage you to bring them to .
SIG reports
CentOS Special Interest Groups are smaller efforts around particular topics or technologies, to produce content on top of the base CentOS operating system. This month we have reports from a few of our SIGs.
Messaging SIG
Purpose
Provide a unique source for messaging related packages. These packages are consumed e.g by the Cloud SIG or the OpsTools SIG.
Membership Update
We had talks with the RabbitMQ maintainers to get RabbitMQ packages included and updated.
Activity
Other than that, the nature of this SIG is to provide ... for other SIGs. The churn is not as big as in other SIGs.
Storage SIG
Repository Status and Updates
GlusterFS 9 was released; the glusterfs-9.1 bug fix update is available.
Ceph Pacific/16 was released; the ceph-16.2.1 bug fix update is available (c8 and c8s).
Bug fix updates to NFS-Ganesha (including libntirpc), Ceph Octopus/15, Ceph Nautilus/14 (c7 and c8), and Gluster 8 are available.
Ceph Pacific, GlusterFS 8 and GlusterFS 9, and NFS-Ganesha 3 (including libntirpc) packages are now built for CentOS 8 Stream. The associated release packages for those will land in CentOS 8 Stream soon.
Group Status and Actions from meeting
The storage sig meeting is moved to #centos-meeting2
Ceph Pacific is now available and can be consumed by other projects:
The OpenStack TripleO CI now consumes cephadm Pacific for both released and pending content -
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