server November 2014

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Fedora Server Trello
by Stephen Gallagher 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

In an effort to make Fedora Server fully buzzword-compliant, I have created a Trello organization and board for keeping tabs on the open tasks we need to complete. This will help us visualize what work we want to get done, who is doing it and whether it's blocked. The new board is public and located at https://trello.com/b/Cxf1YFs7/fedora-server and the organization is located at https://trello.com/fedoraserver The purpose of this Trello board is to track those high-level issues that apply to the Fedora Server project as a whole. Tracking of individual project-level implementation should continue to be done within those projects. I've added a few existing tasks that we have on our plate. Members of the Server SIG: if you're interested in following along (and ideally picking up and working on a few tasks), please create a Trello account and email me with your ID so that I can add you to the organization. If you are sitting on the Server WG, please consider this to be strongly encouraged.

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Talking Points for Fedora Server 21
by Truong Anh Tuan 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

I am writing a series of Talking Points for Ambassadors to talk about Fedora Server 21 during upcoming events. Please check out the very first draft here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_talking_points#Fedora_Server All ideas and comments are welcome. Kind regards, Tuan

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Proposal for F22 Desktop Enviroment
by John Unland 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Hello everyone, I have been talking with Stephen about a DE for F22 and he has given me a green light for proposing just that so here it goes: Objective for proposal: -To implement a desktop environment for F22 Server. -Let the user have a choice for going to a DE or bare CLI. -Have a GUI toolbox to diagnose hardware and networks. Justification for proposal: The addition of a DE to F22 (x86) would give system admins a choice of going to headless or use GUI interface. Additionally many companies do not have the resources to have rack cabinets or extra machines to access the Cockpit (Most of these companies are small businesses). Also there are some software packages that need a desktop interface to install such as Bitnami (https://bitnami.com/) or Oracle Database, this not only applies to open source software but proprietary software which mostly installs on a GUI interface. Sidenote: Even the Windows Server has a GUI and if you want to go to just a plain CLI then you can do that. So why not Fedora Server? Implementation: Wayland as a display server with KDE or Gnome (per Server SIG's suggestions) as the default DE. Most of the applications if not all will be removed including widgets and any fancy graphics. Also this would be a great opportunity to apply some GUI tools such as Wireshark to the DE. Notes for KDE: KDE's "Netbook Workspace" might be a good starting point to have since it's designed for "Quick-use", might be minimal enough for a server environment. Alternative DE: I would also like to propose a LXDE or LXQt as a alternative DE because both KDE and Gnome are both heavy DE's in terms of RAM and widgets / flair. Also there stripped enough that they will do the job just as well as a heavily modified KDE and Gnome. That is all, the floor is open to anyone. I am very open to constructive criticism.

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Self Reintroduction and Candidacy Announcement
by Dan Mossor 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Good day fellow Server enthusiasts! I am hereby announcing my second candidacy for the Server Working Group. For those that didn't receive (or don't recall) the first self-intro I did last April, here's a little background. I am a Systems Engineer which, translated, means I make heterogeneous - and sometimes "incompatible" - systems work together. I have been in IT since I was a child, and my service in the United States Navy gave me the training and experience I needed to make a pretty good career out of it. I've returned to University to finally get a degree - I don't currently have one and have reached the highest position I can without it. I have been maintaining servers of one form or fashion since 1993. My first systems were HPUX and Sun Solaris 2.0. I set up my first Red Hat server in 1998 to serve as the DNS, web, ftp and file server for the Commander, US Navy Central Command. While at that station, I was appointed the Information Systems Security Officer, and was eventually recognized as having the most secure network in Central Command in 2000. I have maintained RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Solaris, BSD and Windows servers in one flavor or another since 2003, and have been slowly transitioning my current systems to a virtualized infrastructure built on CentOS 7 and Openstack Juno. As part of that transition, I have moved our file server from Windows to a Fedora 21 server with Samba, pulling the data from a storage server via iSCSI. I've also deployed a F21 server to fill the role as a local repository (with most of the aforementioned operating systems hosted), and another server as our first central identification and authorization using FreeIPA. I have other instances in production serving double duty as the DNS server (integrated with the FreeIPA server) and eJabberd for a local network IM service. On a separate network, I am running a mixed CentOS, Fedora and Windows Active Directory environment for a development team. Within this closed network, I run DNS, Apache, Redmine (formerly trac), eJabberd (formerly Openfire), git (formerly svn), and multiple CentOS machines doing nothing but virtual hosting for test instances built on KVM/QEMU. The Windows portion of the network serves the sole duty of authentication and identification, but I am using the Windows Services for Uniz to provide some interoperability for that function.I am advocating moving away from Windows based development environments to Fedora, so I can eventually call my network a pure Linux network. In regards to the Fedora community as a whole, I am a member of the QA team, and dedicate most of my testing time to the Server and KDE products (yes, I know KDE isn't a product....yet). I talk up Fedora and it's abilities at any given opportunity, and have convinced more than a few folks to switch to Fedora from Ubuntu. I like what the Server product has become, and want to see it supplant Ubuntu as the "reference" server for multiple projects (namely Openstack, among many). I do what I can in my limited role to make this happen. In short, I am a maintainer of servers, and use them in my daily duties at my day job; I am an end-user of the product. My weakness in the Fedora community, however, is that I am not a developer. It's not what I do, I don't want to do it. I make the systems available for the developers to do their job. To that end, I am very good at what I do. I feel that I would bring insight and ideas to the WG as an end user of the product - a voice that needs to be heard by any development project. It wouldn't do very good to build a product that isn't wanted, or worse, even needed. Regards, Dan -- Dan Mossor Systems Engineer at Large Fedora KDE WG | Fedora QA Team | Fedora Server SIG Fedora Infrastructure Apprentice FAS: dmossor IRC: danofsatx San Antonio, Texas, USA

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Self-introduction: Brandon Vincent
by Brandon Vincent 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello, My name is Brandon Vincent and I'm a system administrator who has a immense passion for open source software and the free software movement. While I'm mostly a GNU/Linux and BSD user, I also have a good deal of experience with commercial UNIX systems. My areas of expertise and research interests include security, cryptography, and system hardening. I am presently a member of the Fedora Security Team, where I work jointly with packagers and upstream developers to ensure that security fixes reach Fedora packagers in a timely manner. In my opinion, the Fedora Project is one of the only GNU/Linux distributions that provides an stable and reliable platform that can be easily utilized to satisfy a wide variety of applications, from individual workstations to large data centers. I'm sure many of the SIGs have made this possible. I'd love to become more involved with the Fedora Project. I have a lot of free time on my hands which I would like to contribute to an project and philosophy I care greatly about. So without being too egotistical, I would like to self-nominate myself for the open vacancy in the Fedora Server Working Group. If anyone has any questions for me, or would like to start a conversation about security or free software, my FAS/IRC username is bvincent. Brandon Vincent

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Self-introduction
by Dan Callaghan 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi folks, I'm Dan (dcallagh in FAS and on IRC). I've been a Fedora packager for a while, and I'd like to help out the Server WG where I can. My day job working on Beaker [1] puts me squarely in persona 3: Traditional Application Developer. I also maintain a handful of production Fedora servers so I guess I also fit persona 1: System Administrator "Macgyver". (They are "production" in the sense that they are Internet-facing and people care if they go down, but they are not serving many users.) I hesitate to nominate myself for a seat on the WG because I'm not sure I can commit the time. Also I am ashamed to admit that I haven't even tried out any of the neat features in F21 Server yet! But either way you will find me lurking on this list in future :-) [1] https://beaker-project.org/ -- Dan Callaghan <dcallagh(a)redhat.com> Software Engineer, Hosted & Shared Services Red Hat, Inc.

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Draft: next blog post
by Simo Sorce 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

At Today's meeting we discussed a perception issue with the WG and we decided we should write something about ti to try to correct the shot. Here is a first attempt at addressing the core arguments. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York

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Open Seat on the Fedora Server Working Group
by Stephen Gallagher 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

This past week, David Strauss chose to step down from his position on the Fedora Server Working Group, citing a lack of alignment with his current work usage. The Fedora Server SIG would like to thank David for his contributions up to this point and wish him well. This means that there is currently a vacancy in the Fedora Server Working Group. The Working Group is the nine-person volunteer body that oversees the development, testing, release, documentation, marketing and evangelism of the Fedora Server. Membership on this Working Group is a moderate commitment requiring a participation of a minimum of two hours a week, one hour of which being the (usually) weekly meeting. Membership on the Fedora Server Working Group does not require you to be a developer, tester or administrator. Anyone who is interested in advancing any of the Fedora Server's goals[2] is eligible to self-nominate. Document-writers, translators, Fedora Ambassadors, end-users and anyone else can become a part of this team. If you feel that you are interested in becoming more involved with the Fedora Server, we encourage you to self-nominate by joining the Fedora Server mailing list[1] and sending a self-introduction and nomination email to that list. We will have open nominations from now until Tuesday, December 9th, where we will vote on the new member at the weekly meeting. If you self-nominate but aren't selected to serve on the Working Group, do not fret! The Server SIG is open to all and the Working Group will always listen to your advice and concerns, so please stick around! While the Working Group is the final authority and voting body when disagreements come up or official decisions (like branding) need to be made, we are not the only people working on the Fedora Server. The Server SIG is small today, but growing. We would very much like to have you join us. [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/server [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Product_Requirements_Document#Product…

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Server Working Group Weekly Meeting Minutes (2014-11-25)
by Stephen Gallagher 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

=================================================================== #fedora-meeting-1: Server Working Group Weekly Meeting (2014-11-25) =================================================================== Meeting started by sgallagh at 16:01:28 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-11-25/fedora-meeting… . Meeting summary --------------- * roll call (sgallagh, 16:01:31) * Agenda (sgallagh, 16:04:52) * Agenda Item: Empty WG Seat (sgallagh, 16:05:12) * Agenda Item: Status check on Fedora 21 (sgallagh, 16:05:12) * Agenda Item: Fedora 22 Planning (sgallagh, 16:05:12) * Agenda Item: Ambassador materials (sgallagh, 16:07:31) * Empty WG Seat (sgallagh, 16:08:03) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Governance_Charter (sgallagh, 16:09:26) * ACTION: simo to write up a first draft of a blog post describing our decision-making process and how it's not restricted to WG members (sgallagh, 16:21:03) * ACTION: sgallagh to announce the search for WG candidates on devel-announce@ and the Fedora Magazine (sgallagh, 16:29:36) * Status check on Fedora 21 (sgallagh, 16:30:11) * ACTION: stefw to check up on a second iteration of the Cockpit branding (sgallagh, 16:32:41) * quick note for TC4 testers today: the openldap package on the media is newer than the one on most of the mirrors, so domain controller deploys won't work until the mirrors sync. (sgallagh, 16:39:01) * The test matrix for Fedora Server has been redesigned for TC4 and later. It includes the new criteria we voted on last week. (sgallagh, 16:40:42) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155228 was closed, that's why i didn't have them on the list. (adamw, 16:46:53) * ACTION: sgallagh to update the bodhi bugs for productimg packages to note that they fix 1155228 (sgallagh, 16:48:12) * Fedora 22 Planning (sgallagh, 16:50:56) * Skipped in favor of Ambassador discussion (sgallagh, 16:51:05) * Ambassador materials (sgallagh, 16:51:23) * LINK: http://scarlett.frields.org:5000/server/ (sgallagh, 16:54:45) * LINK: http://stg.getfedora.org/server/ is the more up to date stg one now. ;) (nirik, 16:56:06) * LINK: http://stg.getfedora.org/server/ (sgallagh, 16:56:26) * any feedback on those pages, please take them to the websites team... #fedora-websites or their trac. (sgallagh, 16:58:10) * LINK: http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites (sgallagh, 16:58:23) * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/176 (tuanta, 17:01:08) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_talking_points (nirik, 17:01:16) Meeting ended at 17:02:38 UTC. Action Items ------------ * simo to write up a first draft of a blog post describing our decision-making process and how it's not restricted to WG members * sgallagh to announce the search for WG candidates on devel-announce@ and the Fedora Magazine * stefw to check up on a second iteration of the Cockpit branding * sgallagh to update the bodhi bugs for productimg packages to note that they fix 1155228 Action Items, by person ----------------------- * sgallagh * sgallagh to announce the search for WG candidates on devel-announce@ and the Fedora Magazine * sgallagh to update the bodhi bugs for productimg packages to note that they fix 1155228 * simo * simo to write up a first draft of a blog post describing our decision-making process and how it's not restricted to WG members * stefw * stefw to check up on a second iteration of the Cockpit branding * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * sgallagh (108) * simo (28) * nirik (26) * tuanta (21) * adamw (17) * mitr (11) * zodbot (10) * stefw (5) * junland (5) * davidstrauss (0) * mizmo (0) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Re: [Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Fedora Server Working Group
by Truong Anh Tuan 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

----- Original Message ----- > From: "pingou" <pingou(a)fedoraproject.org> > To: server(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 6:00:02 PM > Subject: [Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Fedora Server Working Group > > You are kindly invited to the meeting: > Fedora Server Working Group on 2014-11-25 from 11:00:00 to 12:00:00 US/Eastern Fedocal shows me that meeting time is 10:00pm (Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh). Now is 10:20pm but I do not see any activity in #fedora-meeting-1 channel. There may be an issue with Fedocal? (it should be 11:00pm) Kind regards, Tuan

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