infrastructure February 2007

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Infrastructure Design - Look & Feel
by Máirín Duffy 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

Hi folks, For anyone here who doesn't know me, I'm Máirín Duffy and I'm an interaction designer with Red Hat (I work on Red Hat Network - rhn.redhat.com). I heard that you folks are building a bunch of infrastructure applications and would like them to have a consistent look and feel, and I would be very interested in helping out in this effort. I have a couple of questions about the project: - How many applications are involved, and what's involved? Is there an exhaustive list somewhere with kind of a basic description of what each does? - Which applications are highest priority to receive design/skinning work? Based off of these I think the next steps would be for me and maybe some other designers (I will try to recruit some :) ) to look over the applications in question, considering their priority, and start putting together some mockups for their look and feel. Then we can share the mockups and start discussing their implementation here, and tweak them where there are implementation concerns, and then finally figure out or start implementing them (once there's an initial set of mockups the design/implementation processes can kind of happen in parallel, as implementation issues crop up we can go back to the designs and tweak as needed, so on and so forth.) Does this sound like a good plan? ~m

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bodhi/updates system status
by Luke Macken 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hey all, I made a blog post[0] recently about bodhi[1], which is the name of the new updates system for Fedora. I layed out a bunch of milestones[2] for the project, 1.0 being the minimal functionality needed for Fedora 7. If anyone is interested in helping out, feel free to grab any ticket; and if you have questions or don't know where to begin, don't hesitate to ask. I'm hoping to bring bodhi up to 1.0 (and hopefully beyond) during the hackfest this weekend. We'll see what happens :) luke [0]: http://lewk.org/blog/2007/01/30/bodhi [1]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi [2]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi/roadmap

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Self Introduction
by craig thomas 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hi all, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Craig Thomas, and I am an experienced LAMPhp developer very interested in helping to develop the UI's of the various infrastructure applications using the TurboGears framework (and anything else I can). I've done a tiny bit of work on the kid templates and css in smolt, and I have been learning enough python to get in trouble with the rest of smolt :) so kid templates seem a natural fit to start with. I first used redhat 7.2 for lamp work and have been using FC as my desktop of choice since rh8. Until now, I've just been a luser lurking in the mailing lists and, lately, IRC. But I would like to change that and get more involved; actually contribute something. I've come to realize how much I depend on this whole process to produce the OSes and applications I depend on everyday to do my job. The least I can do is help in the ways I can. Err, thanks for listening? -- Craig ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html

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PPC1-2
by Mike McGrath 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hey guys, can you check out ppc[1-2] when you get a sec? They didn't come back up after a reboot, we've tried cutting power, the cyclades, the ppc1-sp and ppc2-sp interfaces but nothing. Also ppc3 is up but the ppc3-sp interface isn't working. -Mike

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Wiki outage (upgrade)
by Mike McGrath 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I'll be doing a wiki upgrade from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (CST) on February 21st (Wed). I'll be trying to minimize downtime and, in theory, the wiki won't every be unavailable, just un-writeable. During our tests it has been determined that there are very few changes that need to be made so we'll just fix things as they come up. -Mike

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Configuration management
by Mike McGrath 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I've been looking at a bunch of config management systems and have decided we should take a closer look at puppet. As far as config management systems go. It doesn't suck, which is really saying something. Plus we have experience in it in the group already. I'm going to install it on lockbox and deploy configs on the app and proxy servers for us all to look at. If we decide that we don't hate it, I'll continue converting the rest of the systems. Thoughts comments? -Mike

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Certs
by Mike McGrath 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

I'm going to buy some certs. admin.fedoraproject.org fedoraproject.org hosted.fedoraproject.org cvs.fedoraproject.org Can anyone else think of any we need? I'm debating cvs.fedoraproject.org because in a few months that might not make sense. -Mike

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people.fedoraproject.org
by Rahul Sundaram 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

Hi It would be nice to offer a space for contributors to upload and maintain content - files they want to share, documentation, packages etc. Rahul

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L10N tools: Increase quality of translations
by Dimitris Glezos 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi all. Some members from the L10N project have identified some issues that need to be solved to make sure the translations of Fedora are of high quality. Some of them are infrastructure-related and at today's (-admin) meeting it was suggested to transfer the discussion here. I'm sure the folks at Red Hat are doing their best to keep the quality of the translations high. But the truth is that Fedora's image in the context of translations is not good; we do hear that a lot, from current and wanna-be members. We can and should work to improve it. Semi-translated applications are U-G-L-Y and shout "low QA" in our ears. Some possible ideas have been listed on the following page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks Please feel free to chip in and help us out correct whatever doesn't seem reasonable, break tasks into smaller tasks etc. The bigger picture of some of these problems are: * L10N of "local" applications (those listed on [1]) is poor; releases and package updates contain untranslated strings in many languages. This is unacceptable for a fully-localized desktop. * The barrier to contribute to the l10n (be it GUI or Docs) is higher than it should be (compared to other projects). * QA of the translations is difficult with the current tools. Some more concrete ideas to discuss that might concern the InfrProj and the RelEng team are: * Integrate better the handling of translation during a "local" package's lifecycle. Have a flag raised for a package update that introduces new strings so that translators can translate the new strings before the repackaging/updating. Include in the schedule for each release a "string freeze date" and a week later a "translation freeze date" and have all our packages rebuilt after the latter and before the actual release. * Move po files on their own cvsroot on cvs.fedoraproject.org to reduce complexity and maintenance and to increase security (with a new group). * Move the i18n status pages to Fedora servers (Plone/Turbogears?). Include a direct link to the pofiles from there so that new members can have something to work on before getting cvs access. * In the future, use Plone to automate the QA between team members (ie coordinators can review translations etc). * Start working with the complex and tricky path to upstream translations that no distribution has tackled yet in a successful way. Bring our translators closer to the upstream projects. Hope some of the above make sense. :) -d [1]: http://i18n.redhat.com/cgi-bin/i18n-status -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) --

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Python coder needed
by Mike McGrath 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Any python coders out there want to help with some wiki code? I'm posting to the list because anyone can do this, they don't need to have done something before but do need to be serious about helping and be a python coder. -Mike

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