Fedora 8 Release
by Mike McGrath
There's still a few tasks left for the Fedora 8 Release:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/milestone...
Many of the remaining tickets are related to the release itself. Please
take the time to go over the tickets, if there's a task that you know
you'll be doing, make sure it is assigned to you:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/query?sta...
Here's a basic timeline and the associated ticket:
November 2nd: Infrastructure Change Freeze (no changes) #101
November 3rd: Mirrors start syncing content #99
November 3rd: mmcgrath getting married (booyah)
November 5th: Web content to the mirrors #100
November 8th: Website switch (from F7 to F8 content) #97
November 8th: Release day #93
We also have a Standard Operating Procedure for release day this time
around:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/SOP/Release
I bring this up because of that whole wedding thing there :) I probably
won't be around much and if I've done my job right, I won't need to be
there. Our team is stronger then ever so I'm not too worried about
much. I'll be pretty unavailable starting on the 9th. I've got a few
more things to implement just because we can (like an additional proxy
server in PHX) Other than that the infrastructure we have right now is
what we're going to ship with.
We'll talk a bit more during the meeting today, please come if you can
make it - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings
-Mike
16 years, 5 months
Absent from meeting
by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
I am going to be absent from this week's Infrastructure meeting because
I'm going to be attending a symposium.
--
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet(a)gmail.com>
PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed
16 years, 6 months
MySQL admins for smolt problem?
by Mike McGrath
Any MySQL admins out there willing to take a look at the smolt db to
make it more efficient? We're having issues with it at its current size
and only being 8 million rows I suspect an index is missing or something
else is going on, any takers?
-Mike
16 years, 6 months
Draciron introduction
by Draciron Smith
Guess I should introduce myself. Been lurking here a couple months now :)
I ran into this group in connection with the Fedora Docs project,
which I spam from time to time and even contribute a few docs here and
there too :)
Primary skill set Linux Sys admin, Network Security and DBA. A CISSP
is among the pieces of paper I hang on my wall. 17 years IT
experience. Last 7 working almost exclusively with Linux. Started in
the code mines but haven't written much code in last 10 years. Was one
of the few coders willing to learn SQL back then so I became the DBA
of test DBs which somehow made me qualified as a DBA and for a time
did that full time before admiting I'd done some Sys admin work in a
job interview which somehow qualified me as a Sys admin which is what
I wound up doing primarily for next several years. Amazing how that
works :)
Worked for lots of cool companies and not so cool companies.
Been a LInux fanatic for some time now. First tried Linux in 95 or 96.
Started using Linux in 97 and except for recording software have been
converted totally to Linux since about 2000. I'm also currently part
of the Linux Journal reader advisory panel.
Outside of the geekdom work I play guitar and bass well enough to make
a dime a here and there playing in Rock bands. Attend Ren Faires,
prolific writer with 4 novels in various stages of revisions and a
couple more books in various states of completion. Nothing published,
nothing fit to be published yet but working on it :) Warning I have a
bizarre sense of humor and I aint afraid to inflict it upon people :)
I also tend to speak my mind without regard to consequence.
I'm currently located in West Texas, but spent most of last 12 years
in the Houston area.
Anything y'all want to know just ask. I aint shy.
16 years, 6 months
Looking for somebody to take ownership of hosted projects
by Jesse Keating
I don't think I'm going to have the time / attention span to be the
main point of contact for the Hosted projects components. These days
it's mostly creating new projects instead of anything else. This is
pretty well documented too. Would anybody like to take this over from
me?
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
16 years, 6 months
Introduction email
by Constantin Stefan
Hello everybody,
I've just joined this mailing list and as outlined in the infrastructure
"Getting Started" page I'm sending this as a (hopefully not very) short
introduction.
My name is Stefan Constantin and I'm a developer from Romania; mainly
I'm a C/C++ programmer but have also done web development in the past, a
couple of years of php to be exact.
I've been using Fedora consistently for about two years, but have
contact with it ever since it's start and as such I thought maybe it's
time to contribute.
While it's not perfectly clear to me about what the next steps are I
sincerely hope that I can contribute and look forward to learning this
process.
Again It's great to be here and I'm enthusiastic about all future
communication.
Best regards,
Stefan Constantin
16 years, 6 months
Self Introduction (AmitK)
by Amit Kumar
Hi
My name is Amit Kumar and I have recently joined the Fedora Infrastructure
list. I want to introduce myself.
Background:
-5 years of Development Experience primarily in the C++/C
- 2 years of product development experience in Virtualisation Servers ,
primarily Xen
-2 years development experience in Java, Python.
Areas where I can be useful:
- Infrastructure, Linux Virtualisation Server typically Xen
Thanks ,
Amit
16 years, 6 months
Self-introduction
by gfroh - fedora
Hello,
My name is Greg Froh and I've recently joined the Fedora Infrastructure
list, just wanted to introduce myself.
Background:
- 8 years lightweight sysadmin experience, recently with a focus on Fedora
and RHEL in LAMP production environments, but also Debian and Win2003
- 5 years in-depth PHP/MySQL development, including CMS, ecommerce, SOAP,
etc.
- 3 years C++ development (GNU)
- 3 years virtualization experience in production environments (VMWare)
- 5 years project management
- based out of Victoria, BC, Canada
I have $DAYJOB and a family, so can't commit tons of time, but would like
to contribute where I can. Areas where I think I could be useful include:
Web dev, documentation, and architecture.
Unfortunately, my UTC conversion was off . . . so missed today's meeting,
but will try to make next week's (mental note *1PM* PST . . . not noon).
Cheers,
Greg
16 years, 6 months
git on fedorapeople.org
by John Poelstra
Hi,
I would like to setup a git repo under my fedorapeople.org account that
anyone can have RO access while providing me RW.
I am familiar with setting up git in a local environment, but unclear
how and what to configure to make it work in this environment whereby
anyone can clone or view it (i'm guessing over http) and I can commit to
it (I'm guessing via ssh)?
IOW where should the git directory be? Do I create a symlink from it to
html_public? etc.
Thanks,
John
16 years, 6 months
Meeting Log - 2007-10-18
by Ricky Zhou
16:01:50 -!- mmcgrath changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Infrastructure -- Meeting Role Call!
16:02:25 * ricky is here.
16:02:39 * couf
16:02:54 -!- notting [i=notting@redhat/notting] has joined #fedora-meeting
16:04:01 < mmcgrath> abadger1999: dgilmore f13 jima ivazquez lmacken skvidal mbacovsk paulobanon ricky
warren: PING
16:04:06 < mmcgrath> anyone I missed poing
16:04:06 < skvidal> pong
16:04:14 < warren> pong
16:04:27 * lmacken
16:04:29 < abadger1999> oh it's meetin' time again!
16:04:54 * abadger1999 has to find a unicode codepoint for musical notes
16:05:10 < warren> Heh... remember ANSI?
16:05:25 < warren> You could play tunes with ANSI codes if the client didn't disable it.
16:05:32 * dgilmore is here
16:05:36 < mmcgrath> Ok, lets get started
16:05:51 < skvidal> get this party bouncing, dj
16:06:07 < dgilmore> yo DJ spin that wheel
16:06:43 < skvidal> boom, kissh, boom, kissh
16:07:06 * mmcgrath has slow internet right now, downloading games spin.
16:07:24 < ricky> :)
16:07:40 < skvidal> so you can't keep the party bouncing?
16:07:43 -!- mmcgrath changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Infrastructure -- Tickets
16:07:48 < mmcgrath> .tiny
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/query?sta...
16:07:49 < mmcgrathbot> mmcgrath: http://tinyurl.com/yth34b
16:07:58 < mmcgrath> First ticket
16:08:02 < mmcgrath> .ticket 154
16:08:04 < mmcgrathbot> mmcgrath: #154 (DNS) - Fedora Infrastructure - Trac
16:08:15 < mmcgrath> not too much going on with that right now.
16:08:28 < mmcgrath> Externally I'm trying to get all of our non SSL traffic moved to the
fedoraproject.org A record.
16:08:45 < mmcgrath> This makes it very easy to deploy multiple proxies.
16:08:57 < mmcgrath> Next Ticket:
16:09:00 < mmcgrath> .ticket 170
16:09:01 < f13> here, sort of.
16:09:02 < mmcgrathbot> mmcgrath: #170 (Hosting respins) - Fedora Infrastructure - Trac
16:09:10 < mmcgrath> f13: I'll have a question for you in a bit.
16:09:14 < f13> k
16:09:21 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: do we have any space for that?
16:09:26 < mmcgrath> So hosting respins is going fine, I've got a gaming spin I'm going to upload to
spins.fp.o tonight. I'm getting it from Jeremy.
16:09:31 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: yeah, we have space.
16:09:54 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: do we have space for secondary archs?
16:09:58 < mmcgrath> Also, the Creative Commons team has requested space and I have granted it. I'm
still a little unclear about some of the details.
16:10:09 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: to host respins on torrent for secondary archs?
16:10:24 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: to host the primary builds
16:10:31 < dgilmore> torrents of them would be nice
16:10:33 < mmcgrath> oh, no. not even close :)
16:10:43 < mmcgrath> we don't really even have space right now to host our own stuff.
16:10:54 * mmcgrath notes lack of backups of koji for the last 6 months.
16:11:12 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: I'm working on that but so far its a no go.
16:11:18 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: ok
16:11:31 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: do we have space to host secondary arch torrents
16:11:38 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: that does bring us to our next ticket though.
16:11:51 < jima> ack
16:11:57 < jima> sorry folks, work beckoned.
16:12:01 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: depends on how much space you need. If a respin would be 3-5G, I think
we can squeeze it.
16:12:12 < mmcgrath> if its the entire distro, we just don't have it right now.
16:12:17 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: well sparc will have to have a cd set and dvd
16:12:20 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: how much space we talking about for respins?
16:12:33 < dgilmore> though cd set will be much more used than dvd
16:13:06 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: i would guess each arch will require 3-6gb of space
16:13:17 < dgilmore> depending on cd/dvd output
16:13:33 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: if we keep it in that range I think we'll be ok.
16:13:49 < mmcgrath> Anyone have any questions about respins?
16:14:03 < dgilmore> what ones are we saying we will host?
16:14:31 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CustomSpins
16:14:38 < mmcgrath> The only exception to taht really is the CC spin.
16:15:10 < mmcgrath> Which just kind of appeared.
16:15:26 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: so just games and CC right now
16:15:47 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: i guess my previous question was about hosting it at torrent.fp.o
16:15:52 < mmcgrath> I'm under the understanding that FEL and KDE are approved as well, if they're not
someone should let releng know.
16:16:07 < mmcgrath> ahh, yeah. A lot of what is at torrent.fp.o will no longer be there.
16:16:13 < dgilmore> will they not be on torrent?
16:16:17 < ricky> FEL? Fedora Enterprise Linux? :)
16:16:25 < mmcgrath> The emphasis being on "official torrent.fp.o" vs spins.fedoraproject.org (community)
16:16:27 < ricky> Ohh.
16:16:29 < ricky> Electronic Lab.
16:16:38 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: same box, but different branding.
16:16:42 < dgilmore> FEL is approved
16:16:53 < dgilmore> KDE i think is safe to say its approved
16:17:00 < dgilmore> since we released it with F-7
16:17:07 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: :) ok
16:17:18 < mmcgrath> K, so yeah, kde, games, FEL will all be on the spins site (and not the torrent
site) as I understand it.
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16:17:28 < dgilmore> secondary archs fall somewhere in between
16:17:36 < mmcgrath> the only exception to that is kde might get moved to the torrent site. Thats more
of a branding thing so I should ping marketing about it and see what they say.
16:17:53 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: i would say put it on the official site
16:18:00 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: yeah, I'd say secondary arch's should be on spins just because there will
be more flexability (there will be an individual project page for each spin,
explaining it, etc)
16:18:02 -!- halfline [i=rstrode@nat/redhat/x-f2922abb3c9a1626] has joined #fedora-meeting
16:18:04 < dgilmore> those KDE fanatics are vocal and crazy
16:18:12 < mmcgrath> :)
16:18:28 < mmcgrath> Ok, anyone have anything else about re-spins?
16:18:37 * dgilmore is out of noise
16:18:53 < mmcgrath> Ok, next ticket
16:19:00 < mmcgrath> .ticket 192
16:19:04 < mmcgrathbot> mmcgrath: #192 (Netapp low on free space) - Fedora Infrastructure - Trac
16:19:15 < mmcgrath> f13: ping
16:19:18 -!- pingou_laptop [n=Pingou@fedora/pingou] has joined #fedora-meeting
16:19:21 < mmcgrath> mbacovsk: ping
16:19:25 < f13> mmcgrath: yes?
16:19:28 < mmcgrath> err mbonnet
16:19:43 < mmcgrath> f13: did the cleanup script get implemented?
16:19:47 < mmcgrath> mbacovsk: unping, sorry.
16:20:02 < f13> Last I heard from mikem is that he's still running some tests for the gc. We were
getting him access to koji.fp.o as the network issues have been hampering him pretty
hard.
16:20:13 * ivazquez is here now
16:20:24 < mmcgrath> ivazquez: yo
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16:21:01 < dgilmore> f13: he has the access he needs now right?
16:21:02 < mmcgrath> f13: Can we have him move on it? No one has any idea how much space will be freed
up and if its not as much as we'd hope we'll be in a LOT of trouble.
16:21:16 < f13> dgilmore: I'm not sure.
16:21:17 < dgilmore> f13: do we have any idea how much space we will free up?
16:21:28 < f13> dgilmore: I don't, that's what the tests are for.
16:21:31 < warren> what is the gc policy?
16:21:37 < f13> warren: complicated (:
16:21:44 < warren> is it written down anywherE?
16:21:46 < mmcgrath> .tiny
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/cacti/graph.php?action=view&rra_id=all&lo...
16:21:46 < mmcgrathbot> mmcgrath: http://tinyurl.com/25pnep
16:21:54 < f13> warren: yes, in the policy definition.
16:21:54 < mmcgrath> I mean, that is getting to a worst case scenario.
16:22:01 < warren> f13, where?
16:22:16 < f13> warren: you'll have to ask mikem. It's not written out anywhere because we don't have
it installed anywhere.
16:22:57 < ivazquez> Not even as a proposal?
16:23:11 < warren> I see that at roughly 10PM yesterday we solved our space problem for about an hour. =)
16:23:14 < mmcgrath> f13: Lets say gc doesn't do anything significant. What do we do? Will you guys
have more funding for space? I've been asking around but so far no one has been
able to provide any donations.
16:23:15 -!- rdieter is now known as rdieter_away
16:23:43 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: without gc we are looking at ~3tb a year growth without adding much more
to the distro correct
16:23:58 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: and that doesn't include package growth.
16:24:01 < f13> mmcgrath: "maybe".
16:24:04 < mmcgrath> err yes. What you said :)
16:24:30 < warren> mmcgrath, I've been inquiring about more storage for Fedora, internal testing of
coraid as a possible alternative to netapp was mentioned, but it didn't sound like a
big priority.
16:24:35 < warren> stalled
16:24:39 < f13> mmcgrath: another thing that will help a lot is we need to purge the written out signed
versions of packages that aren't used anymore.
16:24:44 < dgilmore> so even if gc can clear up 1tb we will be looking at ~2tb per year growth
16:24:52 < mmcgrath> f13: Can we get that implemented tonight? I'm just in a horrible position A) not
having backups and B) having no idea if we'll be able to build packages at the end
of december.
16:25:07 < f13> mmcgrath: I'm pushing as hard as I can.
16:25:29 < mmcgrath> k
16:25:50 < mmcgrath> warren: yeah, I've been putting a spreadsheet together with costs / year / g that
sort of thing.
16:25:56 < mmcgrath> we have options, but no cash.
16:25:59 < dgilmore> f13: i thought we were only going to store the signed header info and generate the
signed rpms on the fly
16:26:10 < f13> dgilmore: "on the fly" sortof.
16:26:19 < warren> It seems like a no brainer. No backups of our entire package collection?
16:26:28 < warren> Just asking for trouble.
16:26:29 < f13> dgilmore: we write them out when we go to push an update or a release tree. There is no
code that I know of to go back and remove the written out copy.
16:26:46 < mmcgrath> warren: yep, I put in a request about 2.5 months ago for money for a tape drive but
haven't heard anything.
16:26:56 < warren> they make tapes that big? =)
16:27:01 < f13> enough tapes...
16:27:02 < mmcgrath> warren: its a robot.
16:27:11 < skvidal> warren: 24 tape changer 800GB per tape
16:27:15 < warren> wow
16:27:18 < dgilmore> f13: ok so that would be something someone could write. perhaps keep the ones
written in the last 6 weeks or so
16:27:22 < mmcgrath> its only a few grand.
16:27:23 < skvidal> some of the newer tapes do 1TB per tape (compressed)
16:27:45 < londo> I think it's 1.6 now for lto-4
16:27:50 < skvidal> f13: where should this code traverse.
16:27:56 < f13> dgilmore: if we can, we probably want to keep the written out ones that we actually
shipped somewhere, but we can purge the ones that are obsolete.
16:28:05 < skvidal> londo: ah, thank you
16:28:11 < skvidal> londo: I didn't know of the latest ones
16:28:19 < f13> skvidal: its... complicated. I hate talking about this kind of thing over IRC.
16:28:39 < mmcgrath> :: cough cough :: asterisk :)
16:28:42 < skvidal> f13: I was just offering to help. I can write a bunch of things to run across
packages
16:28:50 < f13> basically some huristics need to be followed about if there is a package written out
with a "better" key, and the one with the "worse" key isn't in any active repos
16:28:54 < skvidal> f13: I'm more than glad to get on the asterisk or phone
16:29:08 < f13> skvidal: I really appreciate it, and I may call you on that. But not today.
16:29:08 < mmcgrath> f13: Do we have an ETA on when we can look at the cacti graph and go :: whew :: or
:: holy crap we need to buy storage now ::
16:29:21 < skvidal> f13: I'm all ears
16:29:28 < f13> mmcgrath: potentially we could have the first purge of the trash can by next Friday
16:29:28 < skvidal> f13: well, not really, just the two, actually
16:29:31 < mmcgrath> I know it doesn't happen all at once.
16:29:35 < mmcgrath> k.
16:29:41 < f13> or sooner if we want to do it sooner, which we may
16:29:49 < f13> I have to go through and sign all the F8 packages with the gold key.
16:29:54 < f13> that's going to hurt. Big time.
16:30:07 < mmcgrath> I'm all for doing it last month :) So whenever you guys are ready I say have at it.
16:30:13 < mmcgrath> Ok, anyone have anything else to discuss on that?
16:30:44 < f13> mmcgrath: the scary thing is we don't have backup, so if we purge something we really
shoudln't have....
16:31:01 < mmcgrath> f13: have you heard anything on the tape drive? Whats the latest?
16:31:06 < f13> stage 1 is move them to a trash collection and give a reasonable timeout for somebody to
recover it from the trash.
16:31:07 < mmcgrath> jeremy: ping?
16:31:08 < londo> if money is an issue why not put a page up for donations?
16:31:11 < f13> mmcgrath: I have heard nothing.
16:31:26 < f13> money really shoudln't be an issue, I'm extremely depressed that it seems to be.
16:31:36 < dgilmore> does anyone have 3tb free somewhere we could rsync to?
16:31:56 < londo> I can probably find 3tb free if it's not for too long
16:31:57 < f13> ibiblio?
16:32:03 < mmcgrath> dgilmore: out of the PHX colo my estimates say it takes about 10-15 days / 2T
16:32:46 < f13> and during that time everything else gets slower :/
16:32:51 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: good point it would take time
16:33:18 < mmcgrath> Ok, this is something we'll continue to look at. I'm all ears from anyone that
carse to look into it for both tape space and drive space.
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16:33:30 < mmcgrath> I'll try to post my spreadsheet soon with comparisons and such.
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16:33:36 < mmcgrath> Anyone have anythign else before we move on?
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16:34:44 < mmcgrath> k, moving on :)
16:34:49 -!- mmcgrath changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Infrastructure -- Schedule
16:35:03 < mmcgrath> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Schedule
16:35:18 -!- mmcgrath changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Infrastructure -- Sponsorship
16:35:48 < mmcgrath> I'm proud to announce that we have a new potential sponsor. I haven't gotten all
of the technical details but peer1 is looking to donate a new torrent box, two
hosted boxes (one as a live backup of the other)
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16:36:04 < mmcgrath> and two collaboration boxes.
16:36:07 < jima> oh, wow. congrats!
16:36:14 < jima> (brb)
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16:36:33 < mmcgrath> we'll be able to throw the throttle way up on the torrent boxes for releases. and
these will also serve as additional points for proxy servers during release time.
16:36:50 < ricky> Nice,
16:36:53 < mmcgrath> We'll have to put their logo on some of those serrvices that they are hosting but
this is a great donation.
16:37:00 < abadger1999> Excellent
16:37:01 < mmcgrath> Anyone have questions about it? I don't have an ETA yet.
16:37:20 < skvidal> no, it's just quite happy to hear
16:37:29 < mmcgrath> indeed.
16:37:42 < skvidal> we're not planning on using it pre f8, right?
16:37:47 < mmcgrath> Also AFAIK, the german server has been ordered but I haven't heard a delivery date.
16:37:49 < skvidal> only for mid-f8 and f9, I assume
16:38:03 < mmcgrath> skvidal: nope, I don't think we'll make the infrastructure freeze with a
comfortable amount of time.
16:38:17 < skvidal> that's what I figured
16:38:18 < skvidal> thanks
16:38:33 * mmcgrath notes
16:38:36 < mmcgrath> .ticket 101
16:38:38 < mmcgrathbot> mmcgrath: #101 (Fedora Infrastructure Change Freeze) - Fedora Infrastructure -
Trac
16:38:56 < mmcgrath> Ok, anyone have any questions about sponsorship?
16:39:23 < skvidal> if microsoft gives us lots of disk space do we have to advertise for them?
16:39:36 < mmcgrath> skvidal: if they want us to.
16:39:41 < skvidal> has anyone asked canonical about this? I've heard mark is made of money :)
16:39:46 < ricky> Heheh.
16:39:50 < notting> we could always refuse the sponsorship
16:40:01 < skvidal> notting: yah, I know - it was just fun to say
16:40:02 * dgilmore has no questions
16:40:12 < notting> i'm sure we could find some large fedora users that peddle in large amounts of
bandwidth and content. maybe they'd like to advertise
16:40:23 < mmcgrath> skvidal: I'd just be worried about canonical being here next year... After all it
must be expensive to donate an entire company month after month with no return.
16:40:48 < skvidal> mmcgrath: indeed
16:40:52 < mmcgrath> Ok, I'll move on.
16:41:05 -!- mmcgrath changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Infrastructure -- Architectural
Documentation
16:41:06 < jima> re: logo, boo hoo :)
16:41:09 < mmcgrath> Nothing new there.
16:41:26 < mmcgrath> actually nothing new on any of the schedules page which means.... Open Floor!
16:41:30 -!- mmcgrath changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Infrastructure -- Open Floor
16:41:32 * skvidal raises his hand
16:41:34 < skvidal> oo oo
16:41:34 < mmcgrath> skvidal: I believe you had something?
16:41:35 < skvidal> call on me
16:41:37 < skvidal> yah
16:41:51 < skvidal> so a few of us have been working on what is mostly an administrative communication
layer
16:42:02 < skvidal> it's called func: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/func/
16:42:17 * jima looks
16:42:24 < skvidal> func is mostly just a protocol and api for communicating b/t hosts using ssl certs
for 2-way auth
16:42:31 < jima> funky.
16:42:35 < dgilmore> skvidal: /me looked at that the other week very neat
16:42:35 < skvidal> we'll be making a new release soon
16:42:56 < skvidal> and when we do I'd like to start setting it up on some of the fedoraproject servers
16:42:59 < ivazquez> Looks like fin and func should start talking :P
16:43:13 < skvidal> ivazquez: I don't know what 'fin' is
16:43:26 < mmcgrath> skvidal: its how french movies end.
16:43:38 < skvidal> mmcgrath: and snooty english ones
16:43:44 < ivazquez> http://ivazquez.fedorapeople.org/projects/fin.html
16:44:15 < ivazquez> The details can wait though.
16:44:32 < mmcgrath> skvidal: so I'll say +1 to func on the boxes. But I'd like plan written up and
sent to the list on what you're trying to do and how you plan on implementing it.
16:44:35 < mmcgrath> sound reasonable?
16:44:49 < skvidal> yah
16:44:51 < skvidal> totally
16:45:04 < skvidal> I'm mostly thinking about making a lot of specific things simpler for us
16:45:11 < mmcgrath> What can I say, we're early adopters.
16:45:13 < skvidal> right now we don't auto-update machines for a variety of reasons
16:45:19 < dgilmore> skvidal: like restarting kojid on all builders?
16:45:26 < skvidal> dgilmore: for example
16:45:27 < skvidal> or for saying
16:45:49 < notting> skvidal: so, when do we get a funkmaster.fp.o cnam?
16:45:49 < skvidal> "please yum update on all of the boxes right now"
16:45:58 < jima> notting: ip? ;)
16:46:05 < skvidal> notting: trust me, we've heard no shortage of func jokes
16:46:12 < ricky> Hehe.
16:46:13 < jima> err, rather, hostname?
16:47:10 < skvidal> anyway - if anyone wants to poke at me about it, I'm alll ears
16:47:10 < dgilmore> jima: i think he meant cname
16:47:19 < skvidal> I'll work on a description of what I want to install and where
16:47:31 < mmcgrath> skvidal: we'll look forward to the introduction plan on the list :)
16:47:37 < skvidal> the long and short is, I think. puppet will be the 'overlord' and the ret of the
machines will be minions
16:47:37 < dgilmore> skvidal: it looks funkalicous
16:47:38 < mmcgrath> I thnk others on that list will be interested to hear it as well.
16:47:44 < skvidal> okay
16:48:01 < mmcgrath> skvidal: mind if we move on?
16:48:06 < skvidal> not at all
16:48:06 < skvidal> go
16:48:09 < skvidal> thanks
16:48:10 < mmcgrath> hurray func :)
16:48:24 < mmcgrath> FYI everyone, smolt has had an upgrade. There's a wiki and ratings system, check
them out.
16:48:28 < jima> dgilmore: yes, i was basically alluding to "whenever someone asks for it"
16:48:29 < mmcgrath> thats all I've got :)
16:48:35 < warren> cool
16:48:36 < mmcgrath> Anyone have anything else to discuss?
16:48:37 < skvidal> yay smolt
16:48:42 < skvidal> mmcgrath: wiki migration?
16:49:04 < mmcgrath> I'll personally pay someone 100 dollars to convert our wiki to mediawiki. Thats
the bounty.
16:49:08 < abadger1999> Do you guys want me to spend some time hacking the save problem?
16:49:16 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: ill chip in 50
16:49:16 < mmcgrath> It'll be worth it to me to sleep better in just that first week.
16:49:48 < mmcgrath> abadger1999: If you're serious about it yes. I can give you a prioritized list of
work we need done.
16:49:53 < abadger1999> I can put something together to fix that quickly but I don't know if it will be
upstreamable.
16:50:02 < abadger1999> :-(
16:50:30 * mmcgrath would rather it be upstreamable.
16:50:41 * skvidal would rather it holds us over for f8 release
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16:50:50 < skvidal> and we give up
16:50:57 < skvidal> and walk away
16:51:01 < skvidal> I love python, I loathe php
16:51:07 < abadger1999> that's what's kept me from implementing anything. Lack of knowledge of where
upstream is going.
16:51:18 < skvidal> but maybe we need to just walk away
16:51:20 < mmcgrath> skvidal: At this point I'd just assume move moin to /wiki2/ and have people copy
important pages over manually.
16:51:38 < skvidal> mmcgrath: will play hell with google juice
16:51:40 < mmcgrath> abadger1999: I don't think they're going anywhere anytime soon.
16:51:41 < dgilmore> mmcgrath: that could be an option
16:51:48 < ricky> Or better yet, move over to static HTML pages :)
16:52:02 < skvidal> ricky: +1
16:52:03 < mmcgrath> oh ricky, ohhhh ricky.
16:52:04 < dgilmore> a database backend would probably help alot
16:52:20 * notting doesn't see how having to manually move wiki content is going to help
16:52:22 < mmcgrath> ricky: as we migrate official content off the wiki, perhaps the wiki will become
easier :)
16:52:24 < skvidal> mmcgrath: I think he means move moin to static pages
16:52:33 < mmcgrath> notting: it won't be on moin anymore.
16:52:33 < jima> mmcgrath: http://www.littlejohnconsulting.com/node/18 ?
16:52:39 < skvidal> and setup the new wiki in /wiki/
16:53:09 < mmcgrath> jima: I'd seen that, I couldn't get ti to work and it didn't seem to keep history
or usernames.
16:53:12 < ivazquez> The nasty part is the user DB, isn't it?
16:53:26 < mmcgrath> jima: if you want to take a closer look by all means do it :)
16:53:27 < notting> mmcgrath: no, but the moving of stuff == Great Pain
16:53:27 < skvidal> ivazquez: honestly we need to dump the user db for fas-integration anyway
16:53:31 < mmcgrath> ivazquez: one of the nsaty stuff.
16:53:35 < jima> mmcgrath: drats. i hadn't looked.
16:53:42 < skvidal> notting: staying where we are == great pain, too :)
16:53:45 < mmcgrath> notting: the problem is I think we're only a couple of months away from people
being unable to create content on the wiki.
16:53:52 < ricky> ivazquez: As I said before, if FAS2 is ready by then, OpenID auth :)
16:53:53 < jima> fas integration would be great.
16:53:59 < ivazquez> Do we have a list of problems somewhere?
16:54:01 < jima> ricky: oh, good point.
16:54:14 < mmcgrath> ivazquez: just on the list, I'll create a page after the meeting.
16:54:24 < dgilmore> ivazquez: its been talked about on the list alot
16:54:29 < ivazquez> Excellent.
16:54:49 < ivazquez> Well, let's get it into a single place so we can stop talking about it and deal
with it already.
16:54:49 < mmcgrath> Ok, anyone have anything else?
16:55:04 < mmcgrath> notting: plus moving content will have the added beneift of pruning all the useless
crap that has made its way onto the wiki :)
16:55:08 < notting> mmcgrath: right, but having to manually move stuff is man-weeks of work
16:55:23 * mmcgrath knows this.
16:55:28 < dgilmore> notting: probably man-years
16:55:34 < ivazquez> Migrating moin to a DB would probably be the least work.
16:55:37 < mmcgrath> the problem is we're really very close to our last resort (which is that)
16:55:49 < dgilmore> i think its well known we have the largest moin install
16:55:51 < ivazquez> Someone just has to *do* that work.
16:55:59 < skvidal> ivazquez, abadger1999:
16:56:06 < skvidal> if we didn't care about upstream
16:56:09 < mmcgrath> Ok, if no one has any more topics I'll close the meeting in 30.
16:56:11 < notting> have we threatened to publically shame the moin developers?
16:56:11 < skvidal> do either of you think the above is possible?
16:56:20 < mmcgrath> notting: not my style :)
16:56:23 < skvidal> to swap out the backend of moin to a db?
16:56:24 < ivazquez> Moving to a DB? Absolutely.
16:56:26 < dgilmore> ivazquez: we have said that many times and no one has stepped up to do the work.
16:56:27 < abadger1999> skvidal: Yes
16:56:31 < mmcgrath> the dev's are ok, just slow and its no longer the right tool for us in its current
state.
16:56:32 < skvidal> ivazquez: how long would it take?
16:56:40 < dgilmore> some wiki any wiki with moin formating would be ideal
16:56:56 < ivazquez> I'd have to research moin's backend a bit more before giving an estimate.
16:57:11 < ivazquez> Off the top of my head, a couple of months max.
16:57:24 < notting> i'm sure someone will suggest backending it on git
16:57:30 < skvidal> ivazquez: b/c at this point if it doesn't work and we are the largest consumer then
I'm absolutely okay with saying 'we have to fork for our own sanity, we are more
than happy to merge back into upstream but we cannot wait'
16:57:46 < abadger1999> notting: My only requirement is someone rewrites git in python first ;-)
16:57:56 < notting> well *that's* not gonna happen
16:58:02 < skvidal> this is not a statement that what is being done with moin is bad, it just means we
can't wait for it
16:58:42 < skvidal> I don't see how there are a lot of options, really
16:58:49 < skvidal> mmcgrath: what do you think? crack rock?
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16:59:35 * mmcgrath would rather convert by hand then maintain a fork butis open to ideas.
16:59:46 < mmcgrath> I'll get that page written up now and send it to the list. We can talk more about
it then.
16:59:54 < mmcgrath> we should close the meeting, almost out of time :)
17:00:00 < dgilmore> :)
17:00:02 < mmcgrath> anyone have anything? If not close in 30
17:00:03 < ivazquez> I'm sure it can be merged with upstream. But one step at a time.
17:00:09 < abadger1999> mmcgrath: Could you drop a backup of moin onto publictest10?
17:01:03 < warren> mmcgrath, one thing... now that we have a ton of RAM, could we see how much faster
moin goes with ramdisk storage backend? If it helps, it might give us a little
breathing room for a permanent solution to be figured out.
17:01:09 < warren> mmcgrath, and it certainly wouldn't hurt to try.
17:01:59 < mmcgrath> warren: maybe, most of our ram is already taken though, we'll have to come up with
a plan for it.
17:02:04 < warren> OK
17:02:10 < mmcgrath> Ok, I'm going to close the meeting, we can continue in #fedora-admin.
17:02:19 < mmcgrath> warren: I am curious to see what happens though if nothing else :)
17:02:19 * ivazquez must go, and will poke at the list when it pops up
17:02:23 < mmcgrath> it'll be a fun experiment.
17:02:26 < mmcgrath> ivazquez: later
17:02:31 -!- mmcgrath changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Infrastructure -- Meeting End
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