infrastructure November 2011

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[RFE] creating a meeting reminder cron job for all teams
by Kévin Raymond 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

As suggested on Trac[1], here is a thread letting us discuss more about this idea. The fact: * People send reminder manually, sometimes late, sometimes wrong * People forget sometimes to send the reminder. * Many teams are doing that. * It takes time. * Sender need to subscribe to mailing lists * If there is a new wiki page for each meeting (agenda), we can't find the last one easily! Letting teams registering events on a cron will improve that. We could use the meeting page[2] (which would need to be updated!) to get the meeting info. Parameters: * Meeting time * How far should the reminder be sent (in days?) * Meeting frequency, schedule * To which list the reminder should be sent * Static link to meeting details. For example (as we already do in the French team): === This mail is a reminder for today's meeting for the French speaking community. 2011-11-28 / 18:30 UTC IRC: freenode #fedora-meeting The agenda is located at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Réunions_hebdomadaires_de_la_French_team === As kevin said, including the time could be wrong because of daylight saving time. Hence the static meeting page is really important. Lots of meeting follow a generic agenda, there is no need to create a new page each time (take a look at [3]), the wiki history keep the old meeting agenda for us. Therefor the meeting agenda should also be included in the static meeting page. Of course, if this is implemented, all teams (amba, infra, docs…) should use it, else this is not really useful. What do you think? [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3029 [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meetings [3] https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Ambassadors&from=Ambas… -- Kévin Raymond User:shaiton GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2

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Password diversity
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

Hi, At the moment while checking if a password is valid FAS does not check how many characters are present. Thus it allows things like: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" as password. One solution is of course checking how many different characters are present in the password and I have a quick patch which does that. However while discussing about this with Kevin and Toshio on IRC we did not find what would be an optimal number of character different in the password which would be: - high enough to make the password strong(er) - low enough so that in case of brute force the number of possibilities for each character added remain high. So, do you have an opinion on the minimal amount of different characters a password should have ? Thanks, Pierre

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Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (2011-12-01)
by Kevin Fenzi 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow 2011-12:01 at 1900 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network. Suggested topics (suggested by whom): * New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks. * Password / ssh key reset status and retrospective. * serverbeach / collab / hosted status * ibiblio machines status * Upcoming Tasks/Items 2011-12-01 Flag day for password reset/new ssh keys. 2011-12-01 nag fi-apprentice folks for december 2011-12-08 - Fedora 14 end of life. 2011-12-23 to 2012-01-02 - rh shutdown week. 2012-01-13 to 2012-01-15 - FUDCON blacksberg 2012-02-14 to 2012-02-28 - F17 Alpha Freeze * Meeting tagged tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/10 * Open Floor Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a note replying to this thread. More info here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings Thanks kevin

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Jacinto Batoon
by J B 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hello everyone, My name is Jacinto Batoon or jac1bat0 at freenode. I've been working on a degree in Network Systems Administration which got me interested in Linux. I'm quite comfortable writing bash scripts as well as python. Right now, I'm learning to use puppet and nagios to administer and monitor a network of virtual hosts running on my server. It's a very limited setup and I'm looking forward to discovering how these tools are used in a real world environment. Regards, Jacinto

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Review app for Fedora
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi, With the work recently done on fedora-review [1], I started to wonder if it would be interesting to work on an app dedicated to review RPM package for Fedora. I got myself day dreaming about: - One goes to this new website - Login using FAS credential - Click on the "create new review" - Provide name/summary/source rpm - Upload source rpm (check that it is a source rpm) - The ticket gets created - Unpack the source rpm - Put the tarball/zip into the dedicated directory - Create a Git repo - Add all the other files from the source rpm into the git repository - fedora-review runs against this new package. - Reporter adapts his spec file in the git repo - fedora-review runs for each new version and print out the changes (? or not) - Reviewer works from the git - Reviewer declares the review: - approve - git gets move and rename to become the official git repository - invalid (for license/bundled lib...) - git get removed from the filesystem - close (stalled reporter/any other reason) - git get removed from the filesystem I was wondering if it could rely on a similar infrastructure than what we are using via fedpkg/pyrpkg (a reviewpkg ?). I was curious if that would be interesting and since an example is worth many words, I tried to work on a small proof of concept [2]. The README.txt contains the information on how to set it up for testing. It needs still a lot of changes: - All parts regarding the review itself (changing the status, adding one in cc, mail comments added...) is to be done - The design needs to be done (this has to be done, what's there atm is just good enough for testing :-)) but as I said, it's more a PoC for the moment to collect ideas/feedback/critics. I am starting the conversation here on the infra list to get the first reactions, it'll be opened to the devel list later on if worth it. So please shoot :-) Thanks, Pierre [1] https://fedorahosted.org/FedoraReview/ [2] http://ambre.pingoured.fr/cgit/review_srv.git/

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Hosted/Collab migration status update
by Kevin Fenzi 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Just to bring folks up to date with the current status of our migration of collab and hosted machines to new hardware: Last week serverbeach10 died. It was the host that was running the hosted03 test instance. (So, if you have been wondering why you have not be able to get to it, thats why). In the process of them looking at it, it was found that the hardware was end of life and they didn't have any spares/replacements. After discussions, the miscommunication was cleared up and they are going to re-replace our new serverbeach machines with supported/newer hardware. So, those new machines should hopefully be provisioned this week, and serverbeach06-10 will go away. Of course this throws a wrench into our timeframe for migrating things, as we are set back waiting for new machines and re-provisioning them and then may run into holidays. ;) I'll update our timetable as soon as I know more about the new machines. Possibly we can get in some of the migration before holidays, possibly not. On the plus side the RHEL6 test instance for hosted was looking pretty ok from all the testing feedback I got, so I think we are good to migrate over to 6 on it in any case. kevin

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MirrorManager hackfest?
by Matt Domsch 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

I'm planning on attending FUDCon Blacksburg [1] towards the end of January. I see Kevin and Toshio already listed a few FI hackfests. I added a MirrorManager hackfest, and am curious if anyone else will be there to join. My goal is to get the TG2 transition complete so we can start moving forward on new MM features on the TG2 base. Who's interested? Thanks, Matt [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012#Hackfests_.26_Worksho… -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO

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mod_rewrite vulnerability
by Matt Domsch 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222160/Unpatched_Apache_flaw_allows… Suggests looking for rewrite rules of hostname$1 and changing to hostname/$1. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO

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fedorahosted.org: Call for RHEL6 testing
by Kevin Fenzi 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Greetings. As we recently announced, we are working on migrating fedorahosted.org over to a newer instance or instances. We announced and held a activity day: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-November/00085… Which resulted in the following plans: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2011-November/01114… Per those plans, we have setup a RHEL6 test instance of fedorahosted.org and would like to ask people to test against it for issues or problems. How to test: edit your local /etc/hosts file and add: 66.135.62.191 fedorahosted.org git.fedorahosted.org svn.fedorahosted.org hg.fedorahosted.org Then your requests will go against the new instance. Simply use trac, your scm and anything else as normal and note any issues or problems. The only thing that is disabled on this test instance is email. Please note any changes you make will be LOST. This instance is just for testing and will be resynced to real content from time to time. If you could collect results and mail them to this list (infrastructure) that would be best for now. Please do remember to remove the /etc/hosts entry when you are going to go back to the live/production instance. If we don't see any nasty issues by monday, I will announce more widely for more testing. Then, hopefully by next wed we can decide if moving to rhel6 is going to be easy/feasable in the time we have. Thanks in advance for any testing. kevin

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Re: Selecting dutch at FAS
by Kévin Raymond 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Richard E. van der Luit <erech03(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi all, > i can not select dutch as locale for FAS (left at website), though > translating it in Transifex. > Anyway to fix this? > Regards > Richard > Hi, the FAS is an infra web app. It was planned to be updated yesterday… @infra do dutch was added? Do the FAS as already been updated? -- Kévin Raymond User:shaiton GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2

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