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Fedora on the ESPRESSObin
Back in late 2016, I backed the ESPRESSObin on Kickstarter. The board has three network ports attached to an internal switch, u-boot on SPI flash, a mini PCIe port for wifi/Bluetooth, and a SATA port to attach a hard drive. I had intended to do things with the board. However, due to the shipped u-boot…
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Booting helios4 or ClearFog from SPI
Helios4 is a NAS device made by Kobol Innovations, it is a mvebu device and based on the same SoM(System on Module) from SolidRun as is used in their ClearFog devices. While some of the early ClearFog devices do not have SPI flash all recent ones and all Helios4 devices have an onboard SPI flash…
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Multi-Arch jobs
In the time since I left Release Engineering I have been managing the team inside of Red Hat that is working on enabling OpenShift and OpenStack on non Intel architectures. We have delivered OpenStack 13 and 14 for Power, as well as Openshift 3.10 and 3.11 for Power. We are currently working on the next…
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Long live Release Engineering
My involvement in Fedora goes back to late 2003 early 2004 somewhere as a packager for fedora.us. I started by getting a few packages in to scratch some of my itches and I saw it as a way to give back to the greater open source community. Around FC3 somewhere I stepped up to help…
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What is going on in Fedora Release Engineering
As we rapidly hit the last days of Fedora 26 development, the final notches of planning for what Release Engineering can get done in Fedora 27 is coming together. Our priorities are mostly sorted, and we are marking things to target for Fedora 28. Release Engineering has its backlog in a Taiga instance that is…
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Asking for help with koji builds
People often ask for help in #fedora-releng or #fedora-devel with koji builds. The number 1 mistake people make is to post links to log files. The problem with posting to logs is that quite often the log file people point at is the wrong one. It helps in debugging when we have full access to…
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installing openh264 on Fedora 24
Lately we have been working with the Workstation Working Group to setup the ability to build and make available a legal h.264 codec for fedora. Cisco has made available a patent grant for the codec, you can find out more about it at the openh264 project. One of the main conditions is that you have…
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Want to work in Release Engineering in Europe?
Red Hat Release Engineering is hiring in Europe. The job is primarily internal, however we are working to align Fedora and internal tooling and processes, so there will be a lot of overlap. The job info can be found here. If you have more questions or want to apply contact me to get things started.
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Working in the new Release Engineering world
There is a new position opened up in Red Hat for someone to help in Release Engineering, you can find the job details here. The role will be working inside of Red Hat as well as in Fedora. It is based in Westford, MA, however there are some more jobs opening up soon that are…
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Fedora Releng demo
In Fedora Release Engineering land we have been undertaking some big changes in how we work. Most of these changes have been quieter than they should have been. We had the latest demo of our work today, you can watch the video on youtube. We are using an instance of taiga hosted in fedora space…