infrastructure April 2009

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Improving QA test result submission and organization
by James Laska 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Greetings, As you may know, the Fedora QA plans and tracks test execution against Fedora milestones using the wiki. While the wiki has proven quite valuable for content-driven test documentation (e.g. test plans and test cases), recording test results has it's drawbacks. First, in our current implementation, it relies on careful mediawiki table edits. The table edits are too easy to mess up and aren't tremendously inviting to new contributors. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_Alpha_Install_Test_Results * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-02-19 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-02-12 Second, the wiki-based implementation lacks ability to sort, query and organize test results. We can use categories for organizing plans and cases, but this mechanism isn't suitable for results. As a long-term solution, we'd be looking to a web application. However, in the short term (now to F12) with limited resources, we're interested in what off-the-shelf components we can use to help provide a better QA assessment. One solution that fits nicely with the current mediawiki setup is the semantic extension to mediawiki. The laptop.org testers are using this currently and were kind enough to share their findings (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-February/msg00756.html). One important note from the laptop.org folks was that enabling the semantic mediawiki extension could introduce a performance impact to the wiki. I'm in the process of setting up a private mediawiki+semantic instance as a proof of concept. But a few questions for the infrastructure team ... * I'm curious if others in fedora-infrastructure@ have experience with the semantic extension? * Is there a defined process for reviewing mediawiki extensions for the fedoraproject wiki? * Should the semantic performance impact be significant, is hosting a separate Fedora QA mediawiki (with semantic enabled) a possibility? Thanks, James -- ========================================== James Laska -- jlaska(a)redhat.com Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc. ==========================================

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RFR: A test box for running an LDAP server for SSSD test day
by Jakub Hrozek 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

== Primary Contact == Name: Jakub Hrozek Fedora Account Name: jhrozek Group: Fedora Packager CVS Commit Group '''Infrastructure Sponsor''': == Secondary Contact info == Name: Simo Sorce Fedora Account Name: simo Group: Fedora Packager CVS Commit Group == Project Info == Project Name: A test box running an LDAP server for SSSD test day Target Audience: SSSD Test Day participants Expiration/Delivery Date (required): 2009-04-30 (this is the Test day date) Description/Summary: A test box running an LDAP server for SSSD test day. Project plan (Detailed): A Fedora Directory Server, or a FreeIPA instance, is needed to perform full testing of SSSD (there is a draft How to test on the Feature Page, I'll rework that into a better test plan this week). I'm not sure if we can ask the test day participants to go through the process of configuring their own instance and even if they had one on their local machine, it wouldn't allow them to test the online caching feature of SSSD properly. There are several options, the best of them is to have an LDAP server with test data available for the community to test on. Therefore, I'd like to ask the Fedora Infrastructure team to provide us with a temporary test box where we could install and configure FDS. The box would be needed until the test day (2009-04-30), can be removed afterwards. I understand that getting a root access for the box might not be possible - I can provide an install script and an LDIF file that would bootstrap the FDS instance in that case. However, getting a sudo for controlling the FDS instance (ldapmodify, restart the service, view the logs) would be very nice. Goals: Provide the test day participants with an easy test environment. == Specific resources needed == N/A == Additional Info (Optional) == As per the time *before* the test day, it would be handy if we had the test instance for 1-2 weeks prior to the test day. I hope all the necessary information is included either here or in the ticket itself. I'll be happy to answer questions about this RFR. Thank you for the consideration, Jakub Hrozek

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remove andreas.kupfer@stw-bonn.de from mirror-admin alias
by Adrian Reber 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Can somebody please remove andreas.kupfer(a)stw-bonn.de from the mirror-admin(a)fedoraproject.org alias? Everytime I sent a mail to mirror-admin I get following error since a few days (maybe even weeks): <andreas.kupfer(a)stw-bonn.de>: permission denied. Command output: maildrop: maildir over quota. maildrop: maildir over quota. maildrop: maildir over quota. Adrian

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STS45-RIPE
by Stefan Schlesinger 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hello Folks! I'm writing you to let you know about my interest to join the FIG. My name ist Stefan, I'm 23 Years old, living in Austria/Vienna and working as a systems engineer at an Austrian ISP Company (we do a lot of sponsoring for F/OSS projects as well ;-). We mostly use Debian/Linux for our business, but I used RedHat/Fedora before. ;-) Currently I have about 6 years of experiance as a system administrator. I'm pretty familiar with all sorts of sysop tasks (networking, virtualization, scripting in perl/python/bash, ticketing systems, infrastructure automation eg. puppet/cfengine, ldap, web technoligies, mail, dns, databases, packaging, technical documentation, etc). I couldn't decide on which FIG group to choose yet, but eventually fedora-web or fedora-noc would be suitable... Feel free to contact me, I'm on IRC (freenode/#fedora-admin/sts) as well, with best regards, Stefan. -- Stefan Schlesinger \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\ \\\\\\\ sts(a)ono.at STS45-RIPE

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Hi
by Vinay Amatya 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi All, I'm Vinay. I got upto here while trying to fix my installation of Fedora-10. I've been steady user of Fedora package for a little more than a year. I like it better, as I learn more in Fedora environment than on other platforms. Regarding contributing to the Project, I'm a newbie. I'm interested in core infrastructure development/maintainance. I'm comfortable with C, C++, Java. I'd like to learn Python, or Ruby, if I get a project/task that makes me do it. At this stage, I'd like to observe the kinds of problems this(infrastructure) team handles, possibly learn some stuffs, and contribute where possible. Looking forward to working with you, cheers, Vinay

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Intro
by Nattie 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi there guys, i have used fedora since the day 10 came out, (its the most awesome OS ever), and i wanted to say thanks for all the effort you guys put in. About me: I mainly write programs, but i sometimes do small web things, i pretty much adaptable to every situation. I have good knowledge of python and C/C++, but im not so good with bash or perl. I would like to join the fedora infrastructure and give something back. Im looking foward to meeting you * Nathanael

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Introduction
by Carlos Eduardo Pedroza Santiviago 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi all, My name is Carlos Eduardo Pedroza Santiviago, i'm a sysadmin from Brazil, where i mainly work with UNIX/Linux servers administration. I have LPIC-3 Certification, and have worked with Linux for 10+ years. My interest in Fedora (Red Hat) has increased recently, since i mostly used Debian/Ubuntu before. And because of that, I'll have my RHCE exam on Friday, and i guess i'll be fine! :-) I have experience in tasks automation, administration of services, clustering, and a lot of interest in the security field. I'd like to join the devel FIG if possible, and if you are a sponsor, please do not hestitate to contact me. I *really* would like to help. Best Regards, -- Carlos Eduardo Pedroza Santiviago -- http://softwarelivre.net

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so then me
by Jörg Stephan 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi all, so i've somelse introducing themselfs, so maybe i should introduce myself to. My name is Joerg Stephan and i'am close to 30 years now. Iam from the south-west of Germany (Saarland if someone wanne know) and i'am currently trying to finish my study of mathematik and computer science. I work also as system administrator in a research facility at university. Ia, using Linux for several years now, startet with RedHat 5.1 some years ago (maybe 1998 or so) and switched over to some other Unix/Linux Distributions since that. Now i find Fedora the right place to sattle down. I'am working on: Nagios Systemmonitoring and building plugins in python and perl. Automation scripts as hostlist and configuration using m4 and python. Administration Vmware, PostgreSQL and MySQL DB, several Servers (dhcp, apache, tomcat, samba, ltsp etc) So thats something about me, have a nice day Joerg

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Introduction
by Mayuresh Kulkarni 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hello folks, I have been a fedora user for a couple of months now and I would like to thank you all for this wonderful distro! About me - I am a programmer, working mostly in the systems programming domain. I am quite comfortable with C/C++ but not so much with Python or with bash scripting. I would like to help out with something where I can pick up one of these two. I have done projects with Python, (mostly to avoid Perl ;) ) , but am far from being a native. I unfortunately will not be able to attend the meetings on Thursday but I will hang out in IRC to try to get a feel for the current action. Looking forward to meeting you all :) Mayuresh.

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I want to change a TRAC's workflow.
by susmit shannigrahi 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Hi, I would like to include two more resolutions to "resolve as:" field of the freemedia trac[1]. my questions are: 1. Does all the trac use same trac.ini? I can find only one trac.ini by $locate 2. If yes, what may be the possible way to change only this particular trac's behaviour. If not, where is the particular trac.ini file stored? And do I have access to it or should I file a ticket? Thanks. [1]https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/ -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= Sent from Calcutta, WB, India

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