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AUTO: Shannon Mcleod is out of the office (returning 08/15/2011)
by Shannon Mcleod 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

I am out of the office until 08/15/2011. I will be on vacation starting on Friday and returning on August 15. Thanks, Shannon McLeod Unix System Administrator Dubuque GDF Note: This is an automated response to your message "infrastructure Digest, Vol 63, Issue 6" sent on 8/6/11 6:00:21. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Mediawiki on RHEL6 help needed
by Toshio Kuratomi 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

Greetings all, Infrastructure is in the process of getting all of our machines switched from RHEL5 to RHEL6. Right now we're looking at one of the more publically visible services that we host -- mediawiki for fedoraproject.org/wiki. Mediawiki installs and runs for us but it is too slow. So slow, in fact, that our proxy server decides that the instance is down and takes it out of rotation. If someone has some mediawiki configuration or mediawiki/php programming experience and would like to take a look, we'd be happy to get you permissions to poke around our RHEL6 app server test instance and try out fixes. You can contact nirik (Kevin Fenzi) or me (abadger1999) on irc.freenode.net #fedora-admin to help get you started. You can also take a look at the ticket for any details I've left out here: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2908 Thanks, -Toshio

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Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2011-08-04 at 19UTC)
by Kevin Fenzi 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow 2011-08-04 at 1900 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network. Suggested topics (suggested by whom): * New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks. * F16 Alpha Freeze reminder and tickets. * Upcoming Tasks/Items (nirik) 2011-08-02 - 16: Alpha change freeze 2011-08-16: Fedora 16 alpha 2011-09-06 - 20: Beta change freeze 2011-09-20: Fedora 16 Beta 2011-10-11 - 25: Final change freeze 2011-10-25: Fedora 16 release. * Meeting tagged tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=new&status=assi… Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a note replying to this thread. More info here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings Thanks kevin

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infra docs
by Seth Vidal 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Following up on the action item for the infra-docs/SOP migration from the wiki to git I was wondering what opinions folks had on these two markup mechanisms: markdown Restructured Text Suggestions include: 1. having each page be plain text and have the following format: Title: blah Summary: blah blah blah Body goes here Then having a commit hook for the git repo generate a simple index of the above for browsing on a web site. 2. Just put the txt files in a dir and let you browse based on filename and be done with it. - since a lot of us are going to just use git grep ANYWAY, just roll with it. I'm inclined toward simple and add complexity as we go. -sv

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Unplanned outage 2011-08-03 in phx2
by Kevin Fenzi 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Just FYI, there was an unplanned outage in phx2 today. There was some cabling work being done and a switch in one of our racks didn't properly failover to it's second power supply when power was moved from it's primary. This resulted in a approx 10min outage to servers in that rack. Additionally, one machine had a network cable that wasn't reseated properly, so it couldn't reach anything after the switch came back. Investigation of how to fix the switch is ongoing. kevin

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Freeze change request: lower rdu I2 download limits
by Kevin Fenzi 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

The old I2 mirror machines (2 of them) handled 50 syncs at a time. We have 3 machines, but they are set currently to 25/ea, meaning a total of 75 could be hitting the backend storage. I'd like to lower this down to 15/ea and see if it helps with the slowdown/issues as seen in https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2874 kevin -- diff --git a/modules/rsync/files/rsyncd.conf.download-rdu b/modules/rsync/files/rsyncd.conf.download-rdu index de816a0..027b90e 100644 --- a/modules/rsync/files/rsyncd.conf.download-rdu +++ b/modules/rsync/files/rsyncd.conf.download-rdu @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #download-rdu pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid syslog facility = daemon -max connections = 25 +max connections = 15 timeout = 600 use chroot = yes uid = nobody

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[PATCH] set parent_repos in bodhi mash configs
by Bill Nottingham 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

commit 3e946b135a14243b89575b66f43ddea60e5e13bd Author: Bill Nottingham <notting(a)lockbox01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> Date: Tue Aug 2 14:36:54 2011 +0000 Add parent_repos definitions to bodhi mash configs. (#727515, #727138) diff --git a/modules/bodhi/files/f15-updates-testing.mash b/modules/bodhi/files/f15-updates-testing.mash index 27836a6..d464b96 100644 --- a/modules/bodhi/files/f15-updates-testing.mash +++ b/modules/bodhi/files/f15-updates-testing.mash @@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ delta = True # Enable this once F15 releases #delta_dirs = /pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/%(arch)s/os/,/mnt/koji/mash/updates/f15-updates/%(arch)s/ delta_dirs = /pub/fedora/linux/development/15/%(arch)s/os/ - +parent_repos = http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/15/%(arch)s, http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/%… diff --git a/modules/bodhi/files/f15-updates.mash b/modules/bodhi/files/f15-updates.mash index 18c88b7..94384ba 100644 --- a/modules/bodhi/files/f15-updates.mash +++ b/modules/bodhi/files/f15-updates.mash @@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ repoviewtitle = "Fedora 15 Updates - %(arch)s" arches = i386 x86_64 delta = True delta_dirs = /pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/%(arch)s/os/,/mnt/koji/mash/updates/f15-updates/%(arch)s/ +parent_repos = http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/%… diff --git a/modules/bodhi/files/f16-updates-testing.mash b/modules/bodhi/files/f16-updates-testing.mash index 2fbcb64..fa530ab 100644 --- a/modules/bodhi/files/f16-updates-testing.mash +++ b/modules/bodhi/files/f16-updates-testing.mash @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ repoviewurl = http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing repoviewtitle = "Fedora 16 Updates Testing - %(arch)s" arches = i386 x86_64 delta = True -# Enable this once F15 releases -#delta_dirs = /pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/%(arch)s/os/,/mnt/koji/mash/updates/f15-updates/%(arch)s/ +# Enable this once F16 releases +#delta_dirs = /pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/%(arch)s/os/,/mnt/koji/mash/updates/f16-updates/%(arch)s/ delta_dirs = /pub/fedora/linux/development/16/%(arch)s/os/ - +# Enable this once F16 releases +#parent_repos = http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/%(arch)s, http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/%… +parent_repos = http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/%(arch)s, http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/16/%(arch)s/… diff --git a/modules/bodhi/files/f16-updates.mash b/modules/bodhi/files/f16-updates.mash index 91d6a9b..bd560b9 100644 --- a/modules/bodhi/files/f16-updates.mash +++ b/modules/bodhi/files/f16-updates.mash @@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ repoviewtitle = "Fedora 16 Updates - %(arch)s" arches = i386 x86_64 delta = True delta_dirs = /pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/%(arch)s/os/,/mnt/koji/mash/updates/f16-updates/%(arch)s/ +# Fix at GA +#parent_repos = http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/%…

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F16 ALPHA FREEZE reminder
by Kevin Fenzi 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Just a reminder that we are now in the f16 alpha freeze. 2011-08-02 - 16: Alpha change freeze 2011-08-16: Fedora 16 alpha http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Infrastructure_SOP Please send any changes to frozen hosts to the list for acks. Thanks, kevin

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Calendaring. Again.
by Adam Williamson 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Hey, folks. Just wanted to take another shot at one of my oldest windmills :) So, we talked about calendaring for a long time. Then we picked Zarafa. Then we kind of implemented it. Then no-one used it, and we took it out again: http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2011/02/resetting-expectations-fedora.html That wasn't what you might call a 'success', I know. I think there's maybe a couple of reasons for that. One, I'm still not really sure why we'd pick Zarafa. It's explicitly designed to be a Microsoft Exchange replacement, and I don't think Fedora is a project with a lot of people who really need to use ActiveSync or Outlook, so...huh? It just doesn't seem like it was ever a great fit. By the Zarafa page on the wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zarafa - we couldn't even ship Z-Push because ActiveSync is patented, so apparently our only ever official calendaring system never had a working sync mechanism at all, and I don't think Zarafa's web interface is any great shakes. Two, there was never any particular driver towards using it. So, I think another try with a more appropriate calendaring system - if we can find one - and a 'seed' use of it might be a good idea. I've been using eGroupware, personally, for quite a while, and I think it's a good system. I'm not aware of any major barriers to including it in Fedora. It has internal copies of a few Pear modules, but that's pretty small beer and it should be trivial to use the system-wide copies or get an exception (some of them are extensively modified). It has a nice web UI and decent sync capabilities via CalDAV: I've used it synchronized with Evolution on two systems and never had major problems. It seems at least a better fit than Zarafa. Citadel would be another one to look at. As for a 'seed' use, I think an ideal fit here would be the release schedules. Currently, these are dumb HTML tables with ICS files living in the current release manager's personal fedoraproject space: http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-16/ which sucks for any number of reasons, not least of which you need to know who the hell the release manager is at the moment in order to find the schedule. =) Using a proper calendaring system would seem to be a far better way to handle the release calendars, and would be a great kickstarter for a project calendaring system. Since the calendars are maintained by one person, we only need to get one person (hi, Robyn!) to buy in, in order to kick off this seed use. To restrict the liability issues mentioned in Smooge's blog post, we could not enable the email function of the system we choose (this is possible with both EGW and Citadel). We could also not have individual accounts for all Fedora project members, at least at first: we could have just a few individual accounts with commit access, mainly for the release manager to maintain the calendars, and then have a single read-only guest account which people could use to view the calendars and sync them read-only to their phones and desktop clients. It may even be possible to set things up so people can view and read-only sync without any authentication required. What do people think of this idea? If it seems like an approach that's simpler to maintain and more likely to produce actual useful results, that'd be great. I'm willing to work on packaging eGroupware and resolving the private-copies-of-pear-modules issue - I already maintain eGW for Mandriva, so it wouldn't be too much work to convert the spec to Fedora standards. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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