December status update for Fedora Infrastructure Apprentices
by Kevin Fenzi
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
10 years, 3 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Mathieu Bridon
by Mathieu Bridon
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
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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
10 years, 3 months
Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2014-01-16)
by Kevin Fenzi
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
10 years, 3 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Jonathan Larsen
by Jonathan Larsen
- 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!
10 years, 3 months
Hello World!
by Sean O'Reilly
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
10 years, 3 months
2014 dreaming
by Kevin Fenzi
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
10 years, 3 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction jlar
by Jonathan Larsen
- 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.
10 years, 3 months
Working on fedora-infrastructure ticket #130
by Jacob Clark
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.
10 years, 3 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Jacob Clark
by Jacob Clark
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.
10 years, 3 months
