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ticket#2673 - nitrate deployment
by James Laska 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Greetings, I am in search of sponsorship for hosting space to deploy a test instance of nitrate [1]. Some of you may recall several years back when we deployed an instance of Testopia. That exploration was cut short when we discovered license incompatibilities between testopia and Fedora. At that time, a small group of Red Hat associates began creating a new Django-based test management system to remove the components that had conflicting licenses. That new system became nitrate [1]. The Fedora QA team would like to experiment/explore this newer Django-based test management system. At the very least, I believe we'll need a publicly accessible server where we can host the nitrate instance and a mysql database for it. I filed ticket#2673 (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2673) to track this request. Please don't hesitate with any questions/comments/concerns. Thanks, James [1] https://fedorahosted.org/nitrate/

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Calendaring. Again.
by Adam Williamson 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Hey, folks. Just wanted to take another shot at one of my oldest windmills :) So, we talked about calendaring for a long time. Then we picked Zarafa. Then we kind of implemented it. Then no-one used it, and we took it out again: http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2011/02/resetting-expectations-fedora.html That wasn't what you might call a 'success', I know. I think there's maybe a couple of reasons for that. One, I'm still not really sure why we'd pick Zarafa. It's explicitly designed to be a Microsoft Exchange replacement, and I don't think Fedora is a project with a lot of people who really need to use ActiveSync or Outlook, so...huh? It just doesn't seem like it was ever a great fit. By the Zarafa page on the wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zarafa - we couldn't even ship Z-Push because ActiveSync is patented, so apparently our only ever official calendaring system never had a working sync mechanism at all, and I don't think Zarafa's web interface is any great shakes. Two, there was never any particular driver towards using it. So, I think another try with a more appropriate calendaring system - if we can find one - and a 'seed' use of it might be a good idea. I've been using eGroupware, personally, for quite a while, and I think it's a good system. I'm not aware of any major barriers to including it in Fedora. It has internal copies of a few Pear modules, but that's pretty small beer and it should be trivial to use the system-wide copies or get an exception (some of them are extensively modified). It has a nice web UI and decent sync capabilities via CalDAV: I've used it synchronized with Evolution on two systems and never had major problems. It seems at least a better fit than Zarafa. Citadel would be another one to look at. As for a 'seed' use, I think an ideal fit here would be the release schedules. Currently, these are dumb HTML tables with ICS files living in the current release manager's personal fedoraproject space: http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-16/ which sucks for any number of reasons, not least of which you need to know who the hell the release manager is at the moment in order to find the schedule. =) Using a proper calendaring system would seem to be a far better way to handle the release calendars, and would be a great kickstarter for a project calendaring system. Since the calendars are maintained by one person, we only need to get one person (hi, Robyn!) to buy in, in order to kick off this seed use. To restrict the liability issues mentioned in Smooge's blog post, we could not enable the email function of the system we choose (this is possible with both EGW and Citadel). We could also not have individual accounts for all Fedora project members, at least at first: we could have just a few individual accounts with commit access, mainly for the release manager to maintain the calendars, and then have a single read-only guest account which people could use to view the calendars and sync them read-only to their phones and desktop clients. It may even be possible to set things up so people can view and read-only sync without any authentication required. What do people think of this idea? If it seems like an approach that's simpler to maintain and more likely to produce actual useful results, that'd be great. I'm willing to work on packaging eGroupware and resolving the private-copies-of-pear-modules issue - I already maintain eGW for Mandriva, so it wouldn't be too much work to convert the spec to Fedora standards. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2011-07-28 at 19UTC)
by Kevin Fenzi 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow 2011-07-21 at 1900 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network. Suggested topics (suggested by whom): * New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks. * Moving SOP docs from wiki to git * QA network setup * Upcoming Tasks/Items (nirik) 2011-08-01 14:00UTC Reboots outage. 2011-08-01 figure replacements for xen 03/05/09/15 (EOL 09-25 ish) 2011-08-02 - 16: Alpha change freeze 2011-08-16: Fedora 16 alpha 2011-09-06 - 20: Beta change freeze 2011-09-20: Fedora 16 Beta 2011-10-11 - 25: Final change freeze 2011-10-25: Fedora 16 release. * Meeting tagged tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=new&status=assi… 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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Hello
by Hui Li 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hi, I'm a sysadmin working at a software company. Here's the skills I got. - Linux system administration - FTP/Web/NFS/NIS/DNS/DHCP/Kerberos/OpenAFS services setting up/troubleshooting experience - Be familiar with Nagios and Ganglia settings/configurations - Skillfully Shell scripting - HPC administration experience - Be familiar with IBM/HP/Dell servers operation and firmware upgrade - Be familiar with data center infrastructural devices like Rack/PDU/KVM/Console Server - Linux Live CD building experience - Experience with creating/managing Open Source projects If anything I can help pls. let me know. Thanks very much. Hui

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Outage: Server reboots - 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Outage: Server reboots - 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2011-08-01 14:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2011-08-01 14:00 UTC' Reason for outage: A number of servers are being upgraded and must be rebooted. Where possible, services should continue to be available during this outage, but users and maintainers may see short periods of instability or interruptions in some services. Affected Services: Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2900 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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[PATCH] hosted: Remove gzip encoding for .gz*.asc files in apache config
by Todd Zullinger 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

It was reported that various browsers were giving errors when attempting to download the .asc file for func-0.28¹. The reason appears to be that the func .asc file did not match the simple *.gz.asc pattern used to remove the .gz encoding. Using FilesMatch should be more reliable. Arguably, we could just use *.asc here as well. ¹ https://www.redhat.com/archives/func-list/2011-July/msg00017.html --- I know hosted isn't in a freeze at the moment, but I thought I'd check before committing this change. I'd have just changed the pattern to *.asc, but I wasn't sure whether httpd would take issue to a RemoveEncoding call on files that lacked it previously. Anyone see a problem with this fix or the simpler one to continue using <Files> and just changing the pattern to *.asc? (I'd fix the mis-cased </files> then too.) configs/web/fedorahosted.org.conf | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/configs/web/fedorahosted.org.conf b/configs/web/fedorahosted.org.conf index 44c0597..b300f7c 100644 --- a/configs/web/fedorahosted.org.conf +++ b/configs/web/fedorahosted.org.conf @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ Listen 443 ServerName fedorahosted.org ServerAdmin webmaster(a)fedoraproject.org - <Files *.gz.asc> + <FilesMatch "\.gz.*\.asc$"> RemoveEncoding .gz - </files> + </FilesMatch> Alias /robots.txt /srv/web/fedorahosted.org/robots.txt -- 1.7.6 -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Even celibacy isn't a 100% fool proof way to avoid pregnancy... just ask the Virgin Mary.

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interesting test
by Kevin Fenzi 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Interesting test I saw this morning: http://everythingsysadmin.com/the-test.html I think we do pretty well overall, but there's some areas we could improve in. kevin

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RFR docs update
by Kevin Fenzi 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

Greetings. I have just updated: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Request_For_Resources and created a new: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Request_for_resources_SOP and updated the trac template for RFR type tickets. Please feel free to comment/fix obvious issues, etc. Folks that are in the process now (paste and ask that I know of) should take a look and see if there's things that are unclear or could be improved or clarified for them. kevin

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proposal: stop using servergroups in puppet
by Seth Vidal 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

I'd like to propose that we stop using servergroups as a subdir in our puppet manifests dir. proposal is just: move all .pp files over to 'services' and remove servergroups subdir entirely. justification: 1. the distinction between servergroups and services is..... blurry. 2. the actual usage difference between them is confused - if only b/c we have things which could be services in servergroups and servergroups in services. 3. the distinction doesn't actually buy us anything we don't get with just services. alternative proposal: - since services tend to be module-represented in puppet more than in manifests, we could move to having: manifests/ nodes <-- actual node definitions like we have now attributes <-- attributes nodes can include (essentially services but with a less confusing name vis-a-vis our modules/* services) Thoughts? -sv

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Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2011-07-21 at 19UTC)
by Kevin Fenzi 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow 2011-07-21 at 1900 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network. Suggested topics (suggested by whom): * New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks. * Phoenix on-site work recap/summary * QA network setup brainstorming * Outstanding RFR (Request for Resources) Asigned: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1314 - RFR: triageweb https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1591 - RFR for pastebin server https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2339 - RFR - Copr - Fedora Cool Other Package Repo https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1958 - phpESP/limesurvey https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2580 - Host Design Team Image Annotation App https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2673 - Hosting space for nitrate project https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2884 - Request for resources: Ask Fedora Not assigned: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1717 - buildbot for upstream python code https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2151 - Piwik - Website Analytics * Hotfixes We have a pile of hotfixes. What can we do to get them all pushed upstream and new releases so we can stop carrying the hotfix? https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=new&status=assi… * Upcoming Tasks/Items (nirik) 2011-08-01 figure replacements for xen 03/05/09/15 (EOL 09-25 ish) 2011-08-02 - 16: Alpha change freeze 2011-08-16: Fedora 16 alpha 2011-09-06 - 20: Beta change freeze 2011-09-20: Fedora 16 Beta 2011-10-11 - 25: Final change freeze 2011-10-25: Fedora 16 release. * Meeting tagged tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=new&status=assi… 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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