infrastructure November 2009

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hi, i newly joined fedora infrastructure group
by p sena 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi, I am new to the fedora infrastructure group. I am going throug few of the links in the site to get a feel of the work. I have submitted my .ssh_rsa_key.pub from the site. I think I will get some intimation on this. Please someone can let me know further proceedings from here onwards. Cheers. Regards & Thanks Prabir Senapati mailto: senapati2001(a)yahoo.com

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Ok. Looks like this one _may_ fulfill our calendering needs. Testing required.
by susmit shannigrahi 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Hi, I am quite "frightened" to take up this topic again and again lest you all be bored. But interestingly, this one http://publictest15.fedoraproject.org/calender/ can fulfill all our requisites. But, I don't use a calender on my phone, so I never used remote export/import etc. And no surprise that I shall not be able to test it fully. So, if someone who is familiar with these help me out, it will be nice. Thanks. [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1197 -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Intro
by John Stanton 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Hi, I always suck at these things, but here goes. I have been using Fedora for the past year and am loving it. I am looking to gain more experience and skills. Also I am wanting to contribute however I can to the fedora project. I can also contribute 20gb of space and around 900GB to 1000GB of bandwidth per month. Skills/Experience: System Administration: * RHCE Certified, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu. Development: * Perl, Shell scripting, Very little Python(Looking to learn). Networking: * TCP/IP in both Internet and LAN related aspects. * DNS, Apache, NFS. TRAINING/CERTIFICATION: * Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) #805009697437335. * RH300 Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration. * Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) #605008014222023. * RH133 Red Hat Linux System Administration. * ITIL V3 Certificate. * ITIL V3 Foundations Challenge Course. * Perl Programming. * CompTIA Security+, Network+, A+. * Microsoft MCP (Windows XP). If anyone wants to know more about me or my experience just ask. John

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Disabling bapp1 for a bit
by Mike McGrath 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

I'm disabling bapp1 for a bit until I either build another one or until we get xen13 back online. This won't have a major impact on the users except that some sites won't have up to date data if they are updated (like docs.fedoraproject.org) Atm xen13 doesn't pass a POST so I'll be on the phone with IBM shortly. -Mike

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Getting Started
by Abhishek Indoria 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hello all, I am Abhishek Indoria, 14 from India. I am interested in contributing to Fedora project as being a part of Fedora Infrastructure group. I am 14, so please don't expect much, but here's my brief information: Name: Abhishek Indoria Age: 14 D.O.B. : March 18,1995 Address: 22/C-30, Pratap Nagar Sanganer, Jaipur INDIA Time Zone: +5.30 UTC Skills/programming languages: C,C#,CPP, Basic, GLBasic, A bit of Python and Perl, XML, Javascript and some bits of SQL and VBScript. Experience: I am currently volunteering as software developer in one laptop per child foundation(olpc) and SugarLabs. I am also in RT-Administrator gang(known as olpc Support-Gang) in olpc as well as in developers squad in SugarLabs. Please check out both of them here: http://wiki.laptop.org and http://laptop.org http://wiki.sugarlabs.org and http://sugarlabs.org I am currently owner of Free & Open Source Software For Youth Foundation, Phoenix-Team and AceX(Pronounced A6), all of which have more than 25 members working with me. My group and I are currently active in developing a game using CPP, XML and SDL specially for olpc XO platform and Linux alongwith Mac and probably, Windows. We are also working on a spreadsheet program. Please see our group pages at: http://fossfy.co.cc http://phoenix-team.tk Our Free Software News Portal Blog at: http://fsnp.co.cc Is there anything else I am required to submit. Can anyone please help me get started? It will be appreciated. Thanks :) -- Abhishek Indoria OLPC Support Volunteer http://support.laptop.org

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CSRF protection done!
by Toshio Kuratomi 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

I'd just like to say thanks to G_work, mdomsch, lmacken, ricky, ivazquez, mikem, and mbonnet. Thanks to the efforts of all of these people we have finally succeeded in adding csrf protection to all of the web apps we've coded for infrastructure[1]_. Congratulations guys on closing a security flaw that plagues other major proprietary sites [2]_ to this day! .. _[1]: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/992 .. _[2]: http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3849616/Facebook+Hit+With+… -Toshio

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introduction
by Mike Maravillo 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi everyone, My name is Mike Maravillo and I'd like to join the Fedora community, particularly the Infrastructure group. I started using Linux way back with Slackware 3.0 as a system administrator for a local ISP in the Philippines. Since then, I've been connected with companies doing consulting, training, and technical support using Linux and Open Source. I've also done software development projects using C, PHP, Perl, and Python/PyGTK. Joining the Infrastructure group would be a good chance for me to contribute and bring back to the community, and hopefully would quench that thirst to learn more of what's current since I've been mostly involved with programming lately. :) Cheers, Mike

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Meeting today
by Mike McGrath 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Just a note about our weekly meeting this week. I know I won't be there and it seems likely several people won't be around as it's holiday in the US. Having said that, I certainly wouldn't want to stop anyone from having a meeting, there's always lots to discuss so if people show up and have a meeting, just make sure you send the meeting notes to the list. If no one shows up, happy holidays :) -Mike

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Do overlapping release dates matter for our mirrors?
by John Poelstra 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Infrastructure People, In the interest of maintaining good will with our mirrors and appreciation for the great service they provide to Fedora... I'm looking for some guidance and preferences from the Infrastructure team on how to go forward. During the schedule planning for Fedora 13, Jesse suggested looking at the other releases to see where our final date was landing. Jesse dug up the dates and I add my own editorial comments (see below) Thanks, John Here are the questions as it relates to the mirrors that carry Fedora and other distros: 1) What is the minimum distance in days that we have to put between our release and other distros? 2) Is it the release date that matters most or the date the staging starts? 3) On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = doesn't matter, 3 = moderate impact, 5 = critical, we'd be out of our minds not to) how important is it that we bend our schedule to not land as close as we might be potentially landing with the dates below (assuming we do not slip)? I'm really looking for a scale to get a sense of the severity and not subjective responses like "it will be bad" or "people will hate us." I want to know "how much." 4) Our current options as I understand them are: a) Overlap closely (see below) b) Add two weeks to Fedora 13 Is there an "option C" that we could implement or go with so as not to have to add two weeks to our scheduled GA date if the consensus score from #3 is high? ------------------------------------------------------ Debian 2010-March (Freeze, not an actual release date) Fedora 13 2010-04-27 (since Fedora 8 every release has been late >= 2 weeks) Ubuntu 10.4 2010-04-29 (I'm told they have never slipped) OpenSUSE 2010-05-05 (no idea on their "on time arrival history")

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Creating a trusted sha256sum.exe binary for verifying *-CHECKSUM files on Windows
by Todd Zullinger 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Some of you might be aware that the instructions for verifying our *-CHECKSUM files on Windows have been broken since we moved to SHA256. Previously, we linked users to a sha1sum.exe built by the GnuPG project. With SHA256, we don't have that ability. Fortunately, the good folks working on MingW have made it possible for us to build a sha256sum.exe from the coreutils sources. We can do this in koji even. (A huge thanks to Richard Jones for his help and patches.) Much of this is discussed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/527060. I've created a simple mingw32-sha256sum package, built it in koji and tested it on the lone Windows XP system I have readily available. Of course, I just built this as a scratch build, so it will expire at some point. What I'm here for is to gather ideas for how to properly go about building the mingw32-sha256sum and keeping it around so that when I extract the sha256sum.exe and upload it to fedoraproject.org we will have the koji built rpm to compare the binary against. Otherwise, the whole process falls back to "Trust that Todd didn't trojan the executable." And while I'd be flattered if folks had that much trust in me, I think it would be unwise to encourage or expect. :) (I really don't want to maintain the mingw32-sha256sum package for Fedora, as it's just a quick and dirty hack to built a small subset of of coreutils for Windows.) Thoughts? -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. -- Ambrose Redmoon

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