infrastructure April 2007

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python-kid on buildsys server
by Michael Schwendt 11 May '07

11 May '07

$ rpm -q python-kid python-kid-0.9-2.centos4 on buildsys.fedoraproject.org would benefit from an update to 0.9.5 which includes xml related fixes and makes it possible to create pages that don't fail in the w3c validator. $ rpm -q --whatrequires python-kid repoview-0.5.1-1.centos4

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Infrastructure projects.
by Peter van der Does 01 May '07

01 May '07

I was just looking at our schedule and was wondering if that's all there is to do. I just read in an other thread there's a lot of development needed, but I can't really see it in the schedule nor the ticket system. Unfortunately it's very hard for me to attend the IRC meetings due to other responsibilities so maybe it's discussed there. I'm also wondering what the status is of some of the projects. Where is help needed? I can't really tell from the schedule page. -- Peter van der Does YIM: petervanderdoes(a)yahoo.com

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Need for Extras -> Koji import
by Jesse Keating 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I thought we had a python snippit somewhere for dealing with owners.list. Does one exist or will I have to recreate one? Mike, can I get file (read only) level access to the extras repos? Here is what I plan... Crawl each arch directory, getting header information about each package such as name, version, and release, as well as what srpm they came from. Create a dictionary of such. For each srpm, query owners.list to figure out who "owns" it. Query koji for all the koji builds, get all the builds tagged with extras-import ( a temporary tag to manage the imports ) and all the koji users. Iterate through the Extras base builds (n-v-r). If it doesn't exist in koji, check to see if the package itself exists in koji. If the package doesn't exist, check to see if the package owner exists. If not, create the owner. Then create the package, then import the build, then tag it for extras-import. Various other short cutting logic applies here. This is much like what I'm doing for Core -> Koji imports, however since the data is in a koji like db/api already it is much easier to do this. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Why Python?
by Peter van der Does 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Just out of curiosity but why are our webapps written in Python and not in Perl for example? I have a feeling there is more Perl knowledge among infrastructure specialists as there is Python. -- Peter van der Does YIM: petervanderdoes(a)yahoo.com

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Ambassador Aliases
by Mike McGrath 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

So the firstname.lastname removal has been done and went fairly well with one exception. Many of the ambassadors use firstname.lastname when dealing with other people. They like a good, professional looking email address. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks of this when they're creating their account name and trying to be an ambassador with fluffyone23(a)fedoraproject.org may cause issues. I've added a few exceptions but I really don't want our group maintaining this list. We're not in the business of user administration, that always gets delegated to the specific group owners/admins. This puts us in an awkward position because of the sensitive nature of the alises file we can't just let everyone edit this file. Here's what I'd like to propose: Thomas Chung has offered to maintain this list for the ambassadors. Since its a manual intervention we're not as open to attack/collisions as we were when it was automated. We'll continue to use CVS so we get notifications when a change goes out. Additionally I've given the following guidelines to Thomas should we chose to go this route: * All alises for the ambassadors must be firstname.lastname(a)fp.o * Exceptions are made by Thomas Chung for the ambassadors only. He has the final say as to whether someone is eligible for the alias * Careful precautions must be made to not cause collisions. (This would include looking out for suspicious aliases like senior.admin(a)fedoraproject.org Does anyone have any issues / concerns with this? -Mike

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Edit Account disable
by Wilmer Jaramillo M. 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Edit your account page is unable: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/userbox.cgi?_edit=1 -- Wilmer Jaramillo M. GPG Key Fingerprint = 0666 D0D3 24CE 8935 9C24 BBF1 87DD BEA2 A4B2 1E8A

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sponsored vs volunteers
by Rahul Sundaram 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi I think it would be useful to understand how much contributions of any form in Fedora are sponsored vs volunteers doing it. As a first step can we add in a field in the package database to note down that information? Rahul

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update announcement modifications
by Luke Macken 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

I modified our update announcement template to show Bugs and CVE's. Below is an example of what it looks like. Let me know if you have any comments/suggestions for improvements (nitpicking welcome). luke - - - Subject: [SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Test Update: mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-04-25 12:57:27 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : mutt Product : Fedora Core 6 Version : 1.4.2.2 Release : 5.fc6 Summary : A text mode mail user agent. Description : Mutt is a text-mode mail user agent. Mutt supports color, threading, arbitrary key remapping, and a lot of customization. You should install mutt if you have used it in the past and you prefer it, or if you are new to mail programs and have not decided which one you are going to use. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: blah blah blah -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Dec 6 2006 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 5:1.4.2.2-5 - use correct fcc folder with IMAP (#217469) - don't require smtpdaemon, gettext -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: Bug #123 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123 Bug #1234 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1234 CVE-2007-0001 - http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/ 15849ed63fdb68096748a08b2e4d3d33855e2b80 ppc/mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.ppc.rpm c3287aeb9793072f770e4cae6344c9bb3adfdd36 ppc/debug/mutt-debuginfo-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.ppc.rpm 6d34ee31084b8c59416d27716c3cd1cccb4cbeb4 x86_64/mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.x86_64.rpm 77e92e4b85922a71432b584eb13b6db1b716f17a x86_64/debug/mutt-debuginfo-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.x86_64.rpm ff49f9237c5563d50598a9cd6d2efe38c56be2fb i386/mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.i386.rpm a5ee13f13fb37d4b1ecf0ec424268510c0cd06d2 i386/debug/mutt-debuginfo-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.i386.rpm c3e2582d8d703a3b03d779056fede294e85db497 SRPMS/mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.src.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Hey There
by Mauricio Pretto 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey guys, I just subscribed my self to the list, as one of the steps in gettingstarted. :) So now im doing the next step, introduce my self at the list. Im Mauricio Pretto, Brazilian, i was part of the Fedora Ambassadors before but went out for backpacking for almost one year, now im getting back and starting all over again. Already started working at the Fedora Project Brazil as infrastructure responsible (just a few things to do), and would like to help at the global fedora project infrastructure as well. So, i have been working with linux for more then 10 Years now, started running my own bbs back at the 90's, working with ISPs, and then working as Linux Engeneer. Im Redhat Certified Engeneer, and a have a few more certs. Have lot of experience with Oracle, MySQL and Postgresql running servers, and all network services that can run in a linux box. Well thats it, if you have any questions, just let me know. I hope i can help somehow. Regards - -- Mauricio Pretto e-mail:hash@fedoraproject.org Brazilian Fedora Ambassador http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MauricioPretto -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGLq4J9UY7Qym3OmoRAoIoAJ9xBG8hKvkJL9Z+aObYCSUZucMBFQCgnBxm 5HcVtWbrK8nPzmMgAdz2DaI= =6ZHG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Web configuration audit
by Paulo Santos 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi all, In preparation for F7 release and some upgrades Mike is going to perform on our servers, i will be doing an audit to our own configuration files, for everything that supports fp.org. In the next few days, i'll be writing a report and sending to the list, for proper review, before doing any actual change. In the end we hope to improve the stability, performance and end-user experience in our beloved infrastructure. Please dont hesitate to send any comments, observations, and/or requests. Thanks, Paulo

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