57 July 2019

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Regarding Buildah article - Part II
by Ashutosh Bhakare 26 Jan '20

26 Jan '20

Hello All Planning to write an extension of my previous article on buildah based on below points 1) Using Docker file to create image 2) using buildah bud to allocate cpu, memory limits 3) mounting volumes using buildah command 4) buildah commit 5) buildah copy Looking for approval and suggestions Thanks Ashutosh

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Re: Article draft: Fleet Commander
by Oliver Gutierrez 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Hi there. I've modified the article with all the fantastic suggestions by Dale Raby. Also I've removed the duplicated content and converted the document to ODF, PDF and txt for people with slow computers or no google account. Thanks for all and regards. On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:45 AM Oliver Gutierrez <ogutierrez(a)redhat.com> wrote: > Thank you very much Dale. I'm fixing the whole things you pointed. Almost > all of them make sense from the IT part. :) > > I will finish the modifications maybe today or tomorrown and I will change > the document to a text document so you can review it better :) > > Thanks for your help and your time! > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 4:53 AM Dale Raby <daleraby(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just put in some suggestions. Your English is better than my Spanish but >> I found a few minor grammatical errors. >> >> The biggest problem I found was that there seems to be a large block of >> text that is a duplication. The section with the graphics is difficult for >> me to view with my slow connection here. >> >> Google documents are always difficult for me to edit. Google assumes >> that everyone has very fast connections and modern machines. I have >> neither. It put me into "suggestion mode", which is actually very clever >> of them... if only I had a fast connection! >> >> Bear in mind, that while I am a native speaker of English and have >> actually done quite a bit of writing, I am NOT an IT expert. So.... take >> any suggestions I give you with caution. I could be misunderstanding your >> intent. >> >> I will look at this again tomorrow when I am not half asleep. Neighbor's >> cattle (Herfords, two heifers, a calf and a 1,200 pound bull) got out onto >> the road this evening. I and former US Congressman Alan Lasee helped a >> police officer and the owner get them back into the enclosure. Was quite >> enough excitement for me! >> >> Dale >> >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Oliver Gutierrez <ogutierrez(a)redhat.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank you very much Mr Raby! Just give me the time to separate it in >>> sections (so I will need to ad intros and outros for each block) and after >>> that I will need a review. >>> >>> In the meantime, I will give you the access you required :) >>> >>> You just need to access the document in this URL >>> >>> >>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VpQhEoTXUkrzTxxVLxLED3IkZL_Lj3JptZ5m1FM… >>> >>> Then Google will allow you to ask for document access and I will receive >>> a notification to give you the permissions. >>> >>> If you do that and you see I had not answered or allowed, please tell me >>> because maybe the notification is lost in my inbox. >>> >>> Again thanks. >>> >>> >>> P.D. Swear words in spanish are usually enough to be very communicative >>> of your current mood :P >>> >>> P.D. 2: After trying to send this email again, google asked me to give >>> automatic access to view the document to recipients, so maybe you will be >>> able to see it after receiving this. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:35 PM Dale Raby <daleraby(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Senor Gutierrez: >>>> >>>> I will be happy to look over your article(s) and address any linguistic >>>> issues. I speak English quite well, German OK, but my Spanish is >>>> limited >>>> to swear words my Puerto Rican roommate taught me during my army days. >>>> >>>> I need permission to access your document though. >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 6:50 AM, Oliver Gutierrez < >>>> ogutierrez(a)redhat.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> > Yeah, I can do that. Just give me some time to do it and I can >>>> separate >>>> > them into more "atomic" pieces :) >>>> > >>>> > Thanks for reviewing! >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 2:16 AM Paul Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:06 PM Oliver Gutierrez < >>>> ogutierrez(a)redhat.com> >>>> > > wrote: >>>> > > > >>>> > > > Hi there. >>>> > > > >>>> > > > Here it is the Fleet Commander draft article I promised to Paul >>>> for >>>> > > review. >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VpQhEoTXUkrzTxxVLxLED3IkZL_ >>>> > Lj3JptZ5m1FMDRHU/edit?usp=sharing >>>> > > > >>>> > > > Please, tell me whatever change you want to enhance it and as >>>> English >>>> > is >>>> > > > not my mother language, any suggestion, correction etc. is most >>>> > welcome. >>>> > > >>>> > > Hi Oliver, >>>> > > >>>> > > There's a LOT of good material here! However, 13 pages is just too >>>> > > long for a Magazine article. (Although your document looks like it >>>> > > might duplicate material, and it might be 6.5 pages * 2.) Can you >>>> > > consider cutting this up into a couple articles? They could run like >>>> > > this: >>>> > > >>>> > > * What is FC and how do you install it? >>>> > > * Setting up a test environment and showing how to set up a profile >>>> > > >>>> > > -- >>>> > > Paul >>>> > > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>>> > To unsubscribe send an email to >>>> magazine-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>>> > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html >>>> > List Guidelines: >>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >>>> > List Archives: >>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@ >>>> > lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7DXFRUSQMU3UQCVXLUE67ZZBKPWXPYFX/ >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *Buy my books! The Wives of Jacob, Book I, In the Beginning, The >>>> Post-Apocalyptic Blacksmith, 777 Bon Mots for Gunslingers and Other Real >>>> Men, available at most on-line booksellers in multiple formats.Note: >>>> The >>>> People of Jacb, Book II, In the Middle is currently being copy-editedand >>>> should be out soon. Just Google my name for a complete list of my >>>> work.* >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >>>> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html >>>> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >>>> List Archives: >>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraproject.… >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> *Buy my books! 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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Magazine editorial board
by pfrields＠fedoraproject.org 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Magazine editorial board on 2018-02-14 from 08:00:00 to 09:00:00 America/New_York At fedora-meeting(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: This meeting is for editors of the [Fedora Magazine](https://fedoramagazine.org) site. The agenda primarily consists of deciding, assigning, and scheduling posts for the upcoming weeks. More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Magazine](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mag… Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/6937/

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Re: [Fedora Magazine] Submit an idea or tip
by Paul Frields 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Hi Daniel, we received your earlier comment about rsync. Are you still interested to write this article for the magazine? If so, please follow these steps: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-magazine/contributing/ You can likely skip the account part, since I see you made a placeholder on the Magazine already for the article. The editors haven't seen a pitch yet, so you can skip to the pitch step. Paul On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 5:44 PM Daniel Leite De Abreu <wordpress(a)fedoramagazine.org> wrote: > > Name: Daniel Leite De Abreu > > Email: daniel(a)deabreu.co.za > > Comment: Hi There guys. > > I have a very good idea and almost ready article about rsync and the misconceptions that most of us have with this amazing tool and how to integrate this completely with Ansible. > > Please let me know if something like this would be considered.

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Introduction
by Rolfe DH 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Hi Everyone. I just joined the team here at Fedora Magazine. I'm a technical writer at Red Hat, presently writing for the Red Hat Virtualization product. I'm writing a pitch on using SCAP and OpenSCAP to secure a Fedora 30 Workstation. "The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a method for using specific standards to enable automated vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluation of systems deployed in an organization, including e.g., FISMA compliance." I look forward to meeting you all soon. Rolfe

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Toolbox Pitch
by Mateus Gomes 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Hi guys/girls! I wrote this pitch https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=28908&action=edit about toolbox. Can someone review it? Thanks,

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Pitch: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
by Miro Hrončok 18 Aug '19

18 Aug '19

Hey, I'd like to write an article about Magic Wormhole [1] - a tool to send files form one computer to another safely. Outline: - the problem it solves - how to install it (dnf install) - how to send message/file and how to receive it - where does the file go trough and why is it safe [1] https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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Pitch: bpftrace: A new eBPF-based supertool for tracing
by Augusto Caringi 07 Aug '19

07 Aug '19

Hi, I would like to contribute an article about the bpftrace tool (overview, quick start, basic usage, etc.)... I've just created a pitch: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=28092 Could editors please review it? Thanks, -- Augusto Mecking Caringi Software Engineer Red Hat

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Retrospective on the WPengine migration of the blog
by Michael Scherer 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

Hi, so a few weeks ago my boss (Jason Brooks) asked me if I could help Fedora Magazine to be moved from the current hosting (a cloud instance on fedora cloud) to a WPengine account that is sponsored by RH, and managed by my team. He did the setup of the blog, and was discussing with Paul, but delegated to me the infra part and part of the execution. So the plan was simple: - we set a instance, configure it and we do transfer data (using export and import) and see how it go - if that go well, we sync again, do what magic is needed fedora infra side and that's it Obviously, a plan that simple couldn't go without issues, and indeed, went with some issues. I will skip over the Fedora infra ones we faced (like me not having my token, not having access to logs or infra, or the blogs on both side, etc), cause they got fixed fast enough, and did just delay the migration due to bad timing. On the Wordpress side, we faced a few issues, some that could have been avoidable, some not. In retrospect, I kinda think we should have done the migration another way. Issue 1: The curious case of duplicate buttons ============================================== The first issue I did notice is that after the sync, the theme did start to have duplicate buttons for social media (the round one on top right, for g+, rss, facebook, etc). The fix was to go on https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/themes.php and remove the duplicate. 5 buttons, not a big problem (unlike another blog I did migrate, where the whole menu structure of 30 items got duplicated and I had to remove them 1 by 1 using the not so fast web interface). I guess that the solution would have been to test on a staging site first, and do the import on a empty site for prod. Issue 2: Raiders of the lost sessions ===================================== Then another issue that Paul did bring was that people lost their session (so folks lost the document they had open). While the migration did happen on friday night (I was planning sooner), I didn't really anticipate that people would keep document in their browser open (while that's a valid workflow). In retrospect, I should have sent a email, but I got lost in details (and Jenkins fighting), so that's my fault for not communicating more. Paul did poke the db, not sure if he managed to recover things. Solution: communicate more with people, especially for a successful website as fedora magazine. Issue 3: The hunt for red comments ================================== Then yesterday, Paul also told me that at least one comment did disappear. Upon looking, we found that the comment was in the database and the admin UI, but didn't appear on the website. And the comment was counted on the top counter (11 comments), but not the one that bottom of the article (10 comments). For folks wanting to see, it was Colin comment on https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-coreos/. I started to dig, and it seems that the comment was a answer to another comment, but for some reason, it was answering to a comment on another post. After trying to understand what happened, it seems that while the export xml is self consistent but ids of post/comments got changed with the 2nd export, but just for some comments. How the code did cause that problem is still a mystery. In the end, I just went in the DB and fixed the ID. So if you see a page with the same problem, please tell me and I will take a look. If a comment did disappear, please tell too. Solution: restarting the sync from scratch would have likely mitigated the problem. Issue 4: With a Friend Like misc ================================ Then after migrating commblog, I did notice that a few posts (around 10) had their author field changed to be my account. I couldn't find a common denominator for that, so I did fixed them one by one. It was faster once I found "quick edit" in the UI, which, as the name indicate, is quicker. I was then able to eliminate all the problematic posts. So I started to look at fedora magazine, and it seems that there is a issue https://fedoramagazine.org/author/misc/ cause I got one post: https://fedoramagazine.org/try-tilix-new-terminal-emulator-fedora-2/ But that's a copy of: https://fedoramagazine.org/try-tilix-new-terminal-emulator-fedora/ I guess I will have to clean that. Interestingly, WP UI say there is 14 posts for me. Not sure what happen to the 13 others, since it only show 1. Restarting the sync from scratch would have likely prevented the issue. Issue 5: They link ================== Ryan Lerch did found today that among the post, there is some who are different, and that at least 1 post had wrong links: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraproject.o… Upon looking at the export file, the link was correct, but it seems that WP is fixing things on import, or something like that. I need to see if that's in the DB or a setting somewhere else. I suspect the domain name was different at the time of the migration, in the wordpress configuration, so it tried to make things correct. I guess we need to make sure the server is 100% correct before we import posts. or it could also be a caching issue, but we did reset the cache twice. I will see how many post are impacted with a sql query and fix stuff. Issue 6: Invasion of the post snatchers ======================================= On irc, Gregbartholomew did signal that one on the article they wrote got duplicated, the same for Ryan. I guess that was a side effect of the 2nd sync, especially if the name of the post got changed (so it got created as a new post). Given that the windows was quite small (2 days), people can just get ride of the postpeop^W posts. Again, likely a side effect of not cleaning the db before syncing. Missing features ================ 1) revisions ------------ As Paul told, the revision are disabled. I will see with Jason to enable them. The reasoning of wpengine is on https://wpengine.com/support/i-noticed-revisions-are-disabled-why-also-how-… 2) direct db access ------------------- As a admin on the main wpengine account, I do have phpmyadmin access for the various instances. But I do not have enough access to the main account to give others people account or access. Again, this will wait for Jason. 3) warning about "doing a backup" --------------------------------- If a admin try to upgrade plugins, the UX will ask them if they want to do a backup, or say that they did. Again, that require elevated access that we can't give for now. And there is automated backup, so in doubt people can say "yes I did". And if things go wrong, we can try to help. But we can't disable the warning. Conclusion ========== I think while that went well, a lot of issues could have been avoided by using a separate test install, then ask to people to check, and then do the migration in prod. Unfortunately, the timing wasn't great, between some unexpected interruptions, some roadblocks and summertime (so people taking PTO). There was also mix-up regarding communication, as I thought that was taken care of, but I didn't verify, so my fault for not telling people in advance. And while I speak of "restarting from scratch", I am not sure exactly how to do that in practice with a hosted solution like wpengine (if it was self hosted, the answer would have been "ansible", which is a answer to a lot of stuff). I can surely have erased all posts, all comments, all users, but maybe I am not removing everything, or removing too much. Removing the whole site would have been another solution, but then, I had no idea on how it was setup in the first place, not what config was done (especially for openid integration, or how to import a theme). Anyway, if people see any more issues, please tell us on the list, we will take a look. (no need to name the issues, just tell what is wrong) -- Michael Scherer Sysadmin, Community Infrastructure

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Internal links to posts 'broken'
by Ryan Lerch 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

The only thing that i have noticed about the server transition has been that the internal links (that render as cards in posts) are now not working: https://fedoramagazine.org/best-2018-fedora-system-administrators/ The link for these are now "fedoramag.wpengine.com/<postname>" which is rendered as a just text, not a hyperlink. the manual fix is simply to change fedoramag.wpengine.com back to fedoramagazine.org, and the cards are rendered as normal. I manually did this one: https://fedoramagazine.org/get-cooking-with-gnome-recipes-on-fedora <https://fedoramagazine.org/get-cooking-with-gnome-recipes-on-fedora/?previe…> / Just wondering if there is an easier way to find and replace all these without having to do it manually. (if no easy way, happy to brute-force it) :) cheers, ryanlerch

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