IBM, GNOME (Outsourced to AWS), and GNOME/Debian Hackers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 18, 2024

• Red Hat / IBM

  • CentOS ☛ CentOS Infrastructure Update Q3 2024

    This is a summary of the work done by the CentOS Infrastructure team. This team maintains the infrastructure for both CentOS and CentOS Stream. This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics.

• GNOME Desktop/GTK

  • Andrea Veri: GNOME Infrastructure migration to AWS

    1. Some historical background

    The GNOME Infrastructure has been hosted as part of one of Red Hat’s datacenters for over 15 years now. The “community cage”, which is how we usually define the hosting platform that backs up multiple Open Source projects including OSCI, is made of a set of racks living within the RAL3 (located in Raleigh) datacenter. Red Hat has not only been contributing to GNOME by maintaining the Red Hat’s Desktop Team operational, sponsoring events (such as GUADEC) but has also been supporting the project with hosting, internet connectivity, machines, RHEL (and many other RH products subscriptions). When the infrastructure was originally stood up it was primarily composed of a set of bare metal machines, workloads were not yet virtualized at the time and many services were running directly on top of the physical nodes. The advent of virtual machines and later containers reshaped how we managed and operated every component. What however remained the same over time was the networking layout of these services: a single L2 and a shared (with other tenants) public internet L3 domains (with both IPv4 and IPv6).

  • Sam Thursfield: Status update, 16/10/2024

    I’ve participated in two internships this year, and interns — who are usually busy full-time students — often ask “How do you get time to contribute to open source?”.
    

    And the truth is that there’s no secret formula. It’s tricky to get paid to work on something that you give away for free, isn’t it? Mostly I contribute to open source in free time, either after work hours, or occasionally during periods of downtime.
    
    To my complete surprise I managed to buy a house this year and so I suddenly don’t have any time after work. During the day most of my time is spent on proprietary customer-specific work, and after work I go to look at the house and try to figure out where to start with the whole thing. (By the way, does anyone around Santiago need a load of 1980s-style furniture made from chipboard?).

• Debian Family

  • Sahilister ☛ Sahil Dhiman: 25, A Quarter of a Century Later

    25 the number says well into adulthood. Aviral pointed that I have already passed 33% mark in my life, which does hits different.

    I had to keep reminding myself about my upcoming birthday. It didn’t felt like birthday month, week or the day itself.

    My writings took a long hiatus starting this past year. The first post came out in May and quite a few people asked about the break. Hiatus had its own reasons, but restarting became harder each passing day afterward. Preparations for DebConf24 helped push DebConf23 (first post this year) out of the door, after which things were more or less back on track on the writing front.