infrastructure January 2014

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Re: state of the askbot
by Ankur Sinha 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 10:28 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > So, after the migration I guess you could go in and do these? > Do we have a list or just want to do them as we see them? We don't have a list yet. The first set of tags to get rid of would be all that are prefixed by hashes. I guess we could do this manually once a few weeks? -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Join Fedora! Come talk to us! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG

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December status update for Fedora Infrastructure Apprentices
by Kevin Fenzi 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Greetings. You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group in the fedora account system. When you reply, please include your fedora account system login. Additionally, this month, I am CC'ing the infrastructure list. If you would like to send your feedback there as well everyone can see and comment on it. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for you. I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the following data or anything related you can think of that might help us make the apprentice program more useful. 0. Whats your fedora account system login? 1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute to more? 3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the fi-apprentice 'easyfix' tickets? https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14 4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road? 5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help you do any of the above? 6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved? Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you? Finding tickets in your interest area? 7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them helpful or interesting? 8. What was the very first computer you ever used? Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc. Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from the group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the group up to date with active folks). Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback! kevin

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Mathieu Bridon
by Mathieu Bridon 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

So, it appears I never really formally joined the group. I think I met most of you at Flock Charleston, and I've been involved in Fedora for a few years now (got my froglet badge!). But the /Infrastructure/GettingStarted page says I really should do this, so here it comes! :P * Your IRC handle (What's this?) That's easy, it's the same as my FAS account: bochecha ## What skills you have to offer and which you would like to learn At $dayjob [1], I'm the (yes, **the**) : * Python developer * {,proven}packager * sysadmin-{build,cvs,devel,releng}: I maintain our internal dist-git/lookasidecache/koji/bodhi/repos infrastructure, I wrote a tool based on pyrpkg to interact with it,... [2] * releng: I work on the tools to compose new releases of our OS [3] So I guess these are the areas where I can help. :) ## What you would like to work on and quite possibly which outstanding issues you would like to help resolve I've been hacking on Bodhi (1 and 2) for some time now, both upstream and downstream (we have a pretty heavily patched bodhi to adapt it to our needs [4]). Recently, after Dennis mentioned it was something he'd like to see happen, I started working on running mash as a Koji plugin. [5] More generally, I'm interested in working on our build and release stuff. [1] https://www.network-box.com/ [2] Here's a bunch of the stuff I've written / patched as part of that work: https://gitorious.org/bochecha-dayjob/ [3] We don't build Anaconda-based ISOs, just firmware images to be dd-ed directly on the disks of the machines we deploy. [4] It's almost a fork, given how much stuff is hard-coded in Bodhi 1 that we have to change: https://gitorious.org/bochecha-dayjob/bodhi [5] I'm hopeful we can start using this soon, both in Fedora and at work: https://github.com/bochecha/koji-mash ---------- One thing I feel worth mentioning: I live in Hong Kong (for now), so the timezone difference makes it pretty much impossible for me to attend IRC meetings. (and generally makes it harder to communicate synchronously). Fortunately, there is some overlap (usually before the US goes to sleep, and soon after Europe awakes). :-) Cheers, -- Mathieu

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Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2014-01-16)
by Kevin Fenzi 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow, 2014-01-16 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network. Suggested topics: #topic New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks. If any new folks want to give a quick one line bio or any apprentices would like to ask general questions, they can do so in this part of the meeting. Don't be shy! #topic Applications status / discussion Check in on status of our applications: pkgdb, fas, bodhi, koji, community, voting, tagger, packager, dpsearch, etc. If there's new releases, bugs we need to work around or things to note. #topic Sysadmin status / discussion Here we talk about sysadmin related happenings from the previous week, or things that are upcoming. #topic Upcoming Tasks/Items https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/list/infrastructure/ #topic Open Floor 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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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Jonathan Larsen
by Jonathan Larsen 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

- Trying this again as I accidentally sent it with no name last time. - My IRC handle is jlar or j-lar. - I have experience with system administration, mostly with Debian variants and CentOS, and config management with puppet and cfengine. I've been working in healthcare for the last 3 years and I want to get my linux skills back up to par, and keep my hands dirty. I'm willing to help with anything I can and I'm hoping to learn whatever is thrown my way. I can give 4 hours a week. - I'd like to work on monitoring and config management, but really anything that I can contribute to I'm willing to do. I'm looking forward to being a part of this community!

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Hello World!
by Sean O'Reilly 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi Infra, My name is Sean O'Reilly and I would like to get involved and put something back. I am an RHCE currently working as an Infrastructure Engineer in the travel industry. I have been working with linux for more than 15 years mostly with Red Hat and it's derivatives but, have supported most other flavours at one time or another. I can spare 6 - 8 hours per week and look forward to getting to know you all. Regards Sean

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2014 dreaming
by Kevin Fenzi 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Greetings. I meant to send this out sooner, but with the Fedora 20 release things have been crazy. :) Now that we are nearing the end of 2013, I think it might be a nice time to think ahead to next year. What would you love to see happen? What would you like to work on making happen? (even if it's not practical resource wise or logistically) Here's a list of some of mine: * 0 downtime upgrades. By this I mean we can update and reboot all our servers (probibly in some specific order with specific actions between) and not have to schedule any downtime or notify users anything is going on. This means at least that we have db replication/failover working and 2 of everything. * Migration to ansible fully done, with all hosts moved over and rebuilt and working. * Migration to RHEL7. :) * Ticket queue down to a very small set. When I first started it was gigantic, then I closed/fixed/redirected a lot of the ticket and we started going down in number, but over the last year or so we have hovered between 140-150. * Migration to hyperkitty/mailman3 complete with all lists moved. * All hosts selinux enforcing. :) * No "app" servers left. All applications split out to their own (at least pair) of instances. * Logging from every app/server goes to a known place and we process them all looking for problems. I'll probibly think of some more, will send them to this thread when I do. So how about you? Any big dreams for 2014? Hopefully we can make at least some of them real. kevin

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction jlar
by Jonathan Larsen 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

- My IRC handle is jlar or j-lar. - I have experience with system administration, mostly with Debian variants and CentOS, and config management with puppet and cfengine. I've been working in healthcare for the last 3 years and I want to get my linux skills back up to par, and keep my hands dirty. I'm willing to help with anything I can and I'm hoping to learn whatever is thrown my way. I can give 4 hours a week. - I'd like to work on monitoring and config management, but really anything that I can contribute to I'm willing to do. I'm looking forward to being a part of this community! -- A cloud of mystical dust appears, shrouding Jon in its magic. You roll a four. The cloud dissipates and Jon is gone.

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Working on fedora-infrastructure ticket #130
by Jacob Clark 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hi all, I'd like to raise awareness that I am working on the following ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/130 After discussion on the fedora-apps IRC I have been recommended to create a prototype and send it over to both design-team and infrastructure. I will be creating the menu bar in vanilla CSS and HTML without any framework to start with, as it was made clear during the IRC discussion that there are some politics on which is favourable. Of-course as this is also Fedora wise, creating a unanimous addition is important. I will follow this email up shortly with the prototype, however could I receive any information, suggestions and or ideas on this ticket. Many thanks Jacob Clark.

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Jacob Clark
by Jacob Clark 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hello, My name is Jacob Clark and I'm excited to get involved contributing to the Infrastructure of Fedora! I'm from the United Kingdom (GMT+ London time). I currently work for a large retail company managing their web projects and infrastructure. I have a solid understanding of emerging software development techniques, client side frameworks, server side frameworks, relational/non-relational database systems, continuous integration, testing, version control & sysadmin unix/linux. I'm competent in several programming languages, at both high level and low level machine development, these languages include: Assembly (NASM), C (GCC), Objective-C, Python, PHP, Pascal, JavaScript and Ruby. I'm experienced with Unix(-like) systems, DevOps platforms (Puppet, Chef), Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Hudson), Firewalls (IPTables), HTTP Servers (Nginx, Apache, Varnish) and various other platform reliability tools. I'm joining because I believe contributing to an open source project such as Fedora is not only rewarding, but also a fantastic way to gain experience in working with a large scale collaborative project. I'm able to put in a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 hours per week on Fedora. My IRC handle is: imjacobclark I'd be very interested in getting started straight away tackling bugs, and I would like to pick up the following to get started with: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/130 I'm looking forward to getting started and heavily involved in the Fedora project. Many thanks Jacob Clark.

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