Sourceware infrastructure updates for Q2 2025

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q2 2025

Sourceware has provided the infrastructure for core toolchain
and developer tools projects for more than 25 years.
https://sourceware.org/sourceware-25-roadmap.html

  Keep Sourceware worry-free, friendly and independent by donating
  https://sourceware.org/donate.html support our fiscal sponser SFC
  https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer and/or support OSUOSL for
  hosting Free Software projects https://osuosl.org/donate/

Every quarter we provide a summary of news about Sourceware
infrastructure:

- Sourceware @ Conservancy Year Two
- Anubis for more services, now without javascript challenge
- Sourceware servers on the move
  - Red Hat Community Cage server move
  - OSUOSL datacenter move
- The Road to Porto: Cauldron in September
- Thanks Christopher Faylor (cgf)
- Signed-commit leaderboard
- Sourceware Organization, Contact and Open Office hours

= Sourceware @ Conservancy Year Two

  In May we celebrated that Sourceware got a financial and
  administrative home at the Software Freedom Conservancy two years
  ago https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/may/15/sourceware-joins-sfc/

  Conservancy has helped us turn from a purely volunteer into a
  professional organization with an Project Leadership Committee,
  monthly open office hours, multiple hardware services partners,
  expanded services, and a more diverse funding model that allows us
  to enter into contracts with paid contractors or staff if necessary.

  Read all about the last year communications, user survey, the new
  services, cyber security and regulations, new and upgraded hardware,
  and our finances:
  https://inbox.sourceware.org/20250527023158.GA11631@gnu.wildebeest.org

= Anubis for more services, now without javascript challenge

  What started as an experiment for patchwork and bunsen has now been
  rolled out to most other services, cgit, gitweb, bugzilla, wikis and
  the forge.

  The latest version of Anubis contains a non-javascript challenge
  which has been used for bugzilla as an experiment and seems as
  effective as the javascript challenge. So it has now been rolled out
  to all services.

= Sourceware servers on the move

  All our servers will be moving later this year because both our
  hardware services partners will move datacenters. The Sourceware PLC
  decided to take advantage of this move by adding more/bigger
  machines.

  - Red Hat Community Cage server move

  This https://www.osci.io/tenants/ impacts server2 (main server),
  server3 (backup server) and forge.sourceware.org. We will add a new
  bigger server which has 3x memory [24x64GB], 10x storage [6x3.84TB],
  2x cpu ish [2x28 cores] compared to the current servers. The new
  data center also has a a faster/bigger network pipe.

  The new server1 was made possible thanks to the FUTO grant,
  individual Sourceware donations and Red Hat OSPO CommInfra & IT
  teams. It has already been installed in the new RDU3 data
  center. But doesn't have network yet (will be added in two weeks).

  We like to have the new server1 setup and in production before the
  move of the other two servers so there is a minimum of downtime. We
  discussed a plan to do this and how we can use this for moving some
  services in their own isolated VMs, and which resources need to be
  untangled for that at the last Open Office hour.

  https://sourceware.org/sourceware-wiki/Migration2025/
  
  - OSUOSL datacenter move

  This https://osuosl.org/communities/ impacts sourceware-builder1,
  sourceware-builder2, arm64-1, arm64-2 and the snapshots server. The
  OSL might be able to upgrade the first two CI x86_64 builders which
  would be great since we expect the experimental forge to also want
  to add CI for merge requests. But they would like us to cover some
  of the co-location hosting costs if possible.

= The Road to Porto: Cauldron in September

  The next GNU Tools Cauldron, taking place in Porto, Portugal, on
  September 26-28, 2025.

  https://inbox.sourceware.org/87o6ubhn4j.fsf@oracle.com/
  https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2025
  https://gnu-tools-cauldron.org/

  Various Sourceware Project Leadership Committee members will be
  there to discuss various infrastructure projects and experiments.

= Signed-commit census leaderboard

  How is your project doing on signed commits?

  Analyzing branch HEAD since 2025-01-01
  cygwin-calm    32 commits  32 signed 100%   1 committers  1 signers 100%
  cygwin-setup   11 commits  11 signed 100%   1 committers  1 signers 100%
  gitsigur        5 commits   5 signed 100%   1 committers  1 signers 100%
  bunsen        163 commits 136 signed  83%   2 committers  2 signers 100%
  annobin        48 commits  39 signed  81%   2 committers  1 signers  50%
  systemtap      67 commits  50 signed  74%   4 committers  3 signers  75%
  builder        58 commits  18 signed  31%   4 committers  3 signers  75%
  elfutils      102 commits  14 signed  13%   4 committers  2 signers  50%
  lvm2          428 commits  41 signed   9%   7 committers  1 signers  14%
  glibc         741 commits  74 signed   9%  33 committers  2 signers   6%
  gcc          5659 commits 447 signed   7% 152 committers 10 signers   6%
  debugedit      15 commits   1 signed   6%   2 committers  1 signers  50%
  newlib-cygwin 416 commits  26 signed   6%  14 committers  2 signers  14%
  binutils-gdb 2244 commits  80 signed   3%  79 committers  5 signers   6%
  libabigail     81 commits   2 signed   2%   2 committers  1 signers  50%
  bzip2           2 commits   0 signed   0%   1 committers  0 signers   0%
  dwz             9 commits   0 signed   0%   2 committers  0 signers   0%
  insight        54 commits   0 signed   0%   1 committers  0 signers   0%
  forge          12 commits   0 signed   0%   1 committers  0 signers   0%
  valgrind      332 commits   0 signed   0%   6 committers  0 signers   0%

= Thanks Christopher Faylor (cgf)

  Since 1999 Christopher Faylor has been one of the Cygwin project
  leads for 15 years. He was list maintainer for cygwin, sourceware
  and gcc mailinglists for 20 years. And handled spam almost daily so
  we could have open lists. He was one of the founding members of the
  Sourceware Project Leadership Committee (PLC). Sourceware wouldn't
  be what it is today without him.

  But after 25 years of being involved with Sourceware and 2 years
  serving on the PLC he decided to resign. We thank him for all he did
  and all his insights making Sourceware a worry-free, friendly home
  for core toolchain and developer tools projects.

  The PLC https://sourceware.org/mission.html#plc now consists of 7
  members. The mandatory minimum number of Members is 4. And no more
  than 2 Members may be Financially-Related to the same Entity.

  If you are interested in joining the PLC please read the
  https://sourceware.org/Conservancy-Sourceware-FSA.pdf
  Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement, the Conflict of Interest Policy
  https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/conflict-of-interest-policy.html
  and contact us at plc@sourceware.org.

  If you rather help with more technical tasks please join the
  overseers list: https://sourceware.org/mailman/listinfo/overseers

= Sourceware Organization, Contact and Open Office hours

  We can be reached through irc, email and bugzilla
  https://sourceware.org/mission.html#organization

  There is also a fediverse account for for announcements, notices
  about downtime and temporary issues with our network.
  https://fosstodon.org/@sourceware

  Every second Friday of the month is the Sourceware Overseers Open
  Office hour in #overseers on irc.libera.chat from 16:00 till 17:00
  UTC. Please feel free to drop by with any Sourceware services and
  hosting questions.

  If you aren't already and want to keep up to date on Sourceware
  infrastructure services then please also subscribe to the overseers
  mailinglist https://sourceware.org/mailman/listinfo/overseers

  Do you or your company want to sponsor Sourceware plans financially
  https://sourceware.org/sourceware-security-vision.html#plans
  donate hardware or services then contact us at sponsor@sourceware.org

Sourceware PLC,

 Frank Ch. Eigler, Ian Kelling, Ian Lance Taylor, Tom Tromey,
 Jon Turney, Mark J. Wielaard and Elena Zannoni