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#fedora-meeting: FESCO (2012-02-27)
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Meeting started by nirik at 18:00:01 UTC. The full logs are available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-27/fesco.2012-02-27…
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Meeting summary
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* init process (nirik, 18:00:01)
* #799 Issues with maintainer responsiveness (clamav) (nirik, 18:02:30)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787434#c23 seems
like a good reason not to rush changing things (mitr, 18:04:32)
* AGREED: close ticket and ask for reporter to reopen with a real
violation, or with a specific use case (as opposed to a single
configuration item) that is broken by this packaging (nirik,
18:16:06)
* #802 F17 Features - progress at Feature Freeze (nirik, 18:16:25)
* LINK: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-02/msg01219.html
(nirik, 18:23:14)
* ACTION: check on RealHotSpot / NMEnterprisenetworking and close
ticket. (nirik, 18:24:56)
* #803 Add johannbg to provenpackager explicitly to work on sysv2systemd
conversion (nirik, 18:25:32)
* AGREED: The proposal doesn't pass. (nirik, 18:44:22)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Johannbg/Features/SysVtoSystemd-F17
(nirik, 18:45:55)
* #806 Request for exception for iptables and ip6tables to provide a
small init script (nirik, 18:47:25)
* AGREED: ask FPC if we can add to systemd guidelines to allow for non
standard service commands to continue to work in a systemd world.
(nirik, 19:05:29)
* ACTION: nirik to file a FPC ticket asking for them to look into
this. (nirik, 19:06:22)
* #810 Clarify our position on forks (nirik, 19:06:51)
* AGREED: forks are allowed provided they do not conflict or interfere
with other packages. FPC may add additional guidelines to forks as
they see fit" (nirik, 19:21:38)
* Open Floor (nirik, 19:21:47)
* ACTION: limburgher will announce systemd migrations for f17 accepted
until Beta, include link to BZ list and invite PP assistance.
(limburgher, 19:27:57)
* AGREED: for ibus (ticket 798): treat other cases (e.g. ibus running
in en_US) as bugs, no FESCo decission necessary (nirik, 19:36:12)
* ACTION: notting to chair next week. (nirik, 19:41:13)
Meeting ended at 19:41:22 UTC.
Action Items
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* check on RealHotSpot / NMEnterprisenetworking and close ticket.
* nirik to file a FPC ticket asking for them to look into this.
* limburgher will announce systemd migrations for f17 accepted until
Beta, include link to BZ list and invite PP assistance.
* notting to chair next week.
Action Items, by person
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* limburgher
* limburgher will announce systemd migrations for f17 accepted until
Beta, include link to BZ list and invite PP assistance.
* nirik
* nirik to file a FPC ticket asking for them to look into this.
* notting
* notting to chair next week.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* check on RealHotSpot / NMEnterprisenetworking and close ticket.
People Present (lines said)
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* nirik (135)
* mitr (61)
* mjg59 (51)
* sgallagh (51)
* pjones (36)
* notting (36)
* Viking-Ice (30)
* limburgher (25)
* t8m (19)
* zodbot (10)
* rbergeron (7)
* tibbs (4)
* drago01 (2)
* OzBorne (1)
* mmaslano (0)
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18:00:01 <nirik> #startmeeting FESCO (2012-02-27)
18:00:01 <zodbot> Meeting started Mon Feb 27 18:00:01 2012 UTC. The chair is nirik. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
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18:00:01 <nirik> #meetingname fesco
18:00:01 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'fesco'
18:00:01 <nirik> #chair notting nirik mjg59 mmaslano t8m pjones sgallagh mitr limburgher
18:00:01 <nirik> #topic init process
18:00:01 <zodbot> Current chairs: limburgher mitr mjg59 mmaslano nirik notting pjones sgallagh t8m
18:00:09 <nirik> who all is around for a fesco meeting?
18:00:12 * notting is here
18:00:13 <t8m> Hi
18:00:15 <pjones> I am here this time.
18:00:16 * sgallagh waves
18:00:24 <pjones> (sorry about last week; was busy saving the world.)
18:00:24 <mitr> Hello all
18:00:54 <mjg59> Hi
18:01:13 <nirik> pjones: cool. I like the world...
18:01:50 <sgallagh> I'd rather we gave up on this one and started exploring other worlds
18:02:25 <pjones> sgallagh: noted.
18:02:27 <nirik> ok, shall we go ahead and get started?
18:02:30 <nirik> #topic #799 Issues with maintainer responsiveness (clamav)
18:02:30 <nirik> .fesco 799
18:02:32 <zodbot> nirik: #799 (Issues with maintainer responsiveness (clamav)) – FESCo - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/799
18:02:48 * limburgher here
18:03:05 <sgallagh> So it does look like there are actual packaging violations at play here, if I read it correctly
18:03:07 <nirik> so, I don't see any comment from the maintainer... which is sad.
18:03:25 <pjones> sgallagh: also the bullshit watermark is pretty high
18:03:46 <sgallagh> pjones: Sorry, ambiguous. Whose bullshit are you referring to?
18:03:58 <pjones> oh wait, was looking at the wrong ticket. sorry.
18:04:04 <mitr> sgallagh: If you are referring to comment#9, I can't see that these are actually violations
18:04:32 <mitr> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787434#c23 seems like a good reason not to rush changing things
18:05:33 <sgallagh> mitr: That reads more like "the approach will be ineffective" not harmful
18:05:48 <sgallagh> Because it won't work for existing installations, especially those using config management
18:06:21 <mitr> sgallagh: opening up the file permissions but restricting the config file only on new installations => upgrades are insecure, IIUC
18:06:25 <nirik> people using config management need to handle things themselves... we can't never change config for them.
18:07:01 <sgallagh> I'm inclined to agree that we shouldn't try to change config in %post anyway
18:07:24 <sgallagh> That this has changed should be called out in the bodhi update text
18:07:27 <nirik> so, what do we want to do here? look at appointing someone to mediate that could look at both sides?
18:07:46 <sgallagh> Do we have a FESCo member with ClamAV experience?
18:08:01 <sgallagh> (also, the lack of response from the maintainer may make this difficult)
18:08:13 <limburgher> Some, not too in depth.
18:08:19 <mitr> sgallagh: ensc did update the clamd-README .... but didn't add the required rationale
18:08:19 <nirik> I dislike/can't stand the current fedora clamav spec.
18:08:26 <limburgher> Used to run it on my old email server.
18:08:27 <nirik> so, I would likely not be unbiased.
18:08:54 <mjg59> Are we still at the point that what we have is a disagreement over packaging without any specific complaints about policy violation?
18:09:06 <mjg59> specific *and* justifiable, that is
18:09:14 <t8m> I think so
18:09:19 <limburgher> That's my interpretation.
18:09:43 <mjg59> And we're being asked to overrule the maintainer?
18:09:44 <nirik> I asked for specifics in the ticket.
18:10:06 <pjones> if there are yet to be specifics produced, it's really not clear that it's our problem to solve.
18:10:11 <mjg59> Can we just punt this until there are actual specifics?
18:10:15 <nirik> the first one doesn't seem a violation... the second seems like a bug.
18:10:31 <mjg59> Because right now for better or for worse we tend to let maintainers do their thing on the assumption that they know how to do their thing
18:10:40 <sgallagh> My personal view: I don't like the way ClamAV is packaged, but if it works for the primary maintainer, we should just let it continue as-is.
18:10:49 <t8m> sgallagh, +1
18:10:51 <mjg59> And if they're not breaking other packages in the process then hey go wild
18:11:02 <mitr> The second one is not a violation either - the updates policy mandate "don't change user experience" is not applicable to how things are packaged in general, unless they changed in an updated
18:11:21 <mjg59> Yeah, it seems like an F15->F16 change
18:11:24 <mjg59> Not an update
18:11:27 <t8m> yes
18:11:42 <limburgher> So then it's acceptable, esp. if it's in the relnotes.
18:11:55 * nirik is looking for that commit
18:12:31 <mitr> "not breaking other packages" is not enough IMHO - it should also not be breaking legitimate use cases. But it seems that the current packaging does make it possible to do what philipp wants to do, although in a different way.
18:12:49 <pjones> it does kindof suck, but... if FPC doesn't want that to be true, they have the power. Until then, there's no real reason for intervention.
18:13:41 <nirik> ok, so does anyone wish to propose an action here? defer ? ask for a specific violation? close?
18:13:43 <notting> if no one from fesco would like to volunteer, should we tap a third-party in the community to adjudicate?
18:13:57 <sgallagh> Proposal: Not our problem. WONTFIX.
18:13:58 * nirik would be fine with a mediator if we could find one.
18:15:04 <mitr> +1 to sgallah, perhaps softening that to "reopen with a real violation, or with a specific use case (as opposed to a single configuration item) that is broken by this packaging"
18:15:10 <mjg59> +1
18:15:14 <notting> +1
18:15:27 <limburgher> +1
18:15:33 <t8m> +1
18:15:40 <sgallagh> +1 to the rewording
18:15:49 * nirik is ok with that I guess... +1
18:15:58 <sgallagh> My tact-processor has been on the fritz lately
18:16:06 <nirik> #agreed close ticket and ask for reporter to reopen with a real violation, or with a specific use case (as opposed to a single configuration item) that is broken by this packaging
18:16:13 * mitr fully expects the ticket to be reopened...
18:16:20 * nirik too
18:16:25 <nirik> #topic #802 F17 Features - progress at Feature Freeze
18:16:25 <nirik> .fesco 802
18:16:26 <zodbot> nirik: #802 (F17 Features - progress at Feature Freeze) – FESCo - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/802
18:16:29 <pjones> +1
18:16:43 <pjones> not to progress at feature freeze, obviously.
18:16:48 <mitr> #note FESco required rationale for the current packaging, which has not been documented yet
18:16:51 <nirik> so, did we get all our reports in? did we want to move things/check if they all moved?
18:18:27 <rbergeron> pjones: LOL
18:18:37 <mitr> NMEnterpriseNetworking eems to be the only unknown on th e critical list
18:18:59 <pjones> rbergeron: well, it didn't seem like it's the sort of thing you can really be for or against ;)
18:19:23 <sgallagh> FWIW, the issue with systemd and PrivateTmp has been resolved last week
18:19:33 <rbergeron> pjones: mustard!
18:19:42 <rbergeron> enterprise networking got updated to 75%
18:19:48 <sgallagh> pjones: Sure you can be against progress. For reference, see any politician.
18:19:53 <rbergeron> on 2/24
18:19:57 * rbergeron is failing to raise her hand, sorry
18:20:15 <zodbot> Beefy Miracle: The mustard indicates progress.
18:20:25 * nirik notes https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RealHotspot still says f17 at 30%...
18:20:32 <nirik> I think it's really gonna have to go to f18.
18:20:36 <pjones> sgallagh: that's progress as an action; this is progress as a question.
18:21:04 <nirik> I can ask dcbw for sure.
18:21:11 <nirik> and NMEnterprise.
18:21:18 <nirik> Do we have any other outstanding ones?
18:21:49 <rbergeron> not from the fesco list, i don't think; I'm still making progress with the Shiny stuff.
18:22:00 <mitr> More importantly, are there any we need to worry about?
18:22:01 * rbergeron really thanks everyone for their wrangling assistance here
18:22:16 * mitr has heard something about more rebuilds necessary for gcc 4.7
18:22:24 <nirik> shall we leave this ticket open to keep tracking? or close now?
18:22:28 <nirik> mitr: yeah, sadly. ;(
18:22:58 <sgallagh> nirik: Let's leave it open until we have an answer on RealHotspot, but then close it.
18:23:02 <notting> correct, there was an unintentional C++ ABI break that needed fixed, which requires rebuilding
18:23:14 <nirik> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-02/msg01219.html
18:23:27 <nirik> sgallagh: sounds fine to me.
18:23:28 <sgallagh> notting: Only C++ packages?
18:23:47 <notting> sgallagh: correct. (and only C++ ones that use a specific feature/class/etc)
18:23:53 <sgallagh> ok
18:23:59 <sgallagh> So rebuilds, not mass-rebuilds
18:24:33 <nirik> dgilmore was going to identify the packages and rebuild them
18:24:35 <notting> *shrug* it's a matter of how much mass
18:24:56 <nirik> #action check on RealHotSpot / NMEnterprisenetworking and close ticket.
18:25:01 <nirik> anything else on this one?
18:25:31 <nirik> ok, on to new business...
18:25:32 <nirik> #topic #803 Add johannbg to provenpackager explicitly to work on sysv2systemd conversion
18:25:32 <nirik> .fesco 803
18:25:33 <zodbot> nirik: #803 (Add johannbg to provenpackager explicitly to work on sysv2systemd conversion) – FESCo - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/803
18:26:00 <nirik> Viking-Ice: you around? anything you want to note here?
18:26:10 <sgallagh> I wish someone had asked Johann before we filed this ticket. But I'm in favor of granting him this privilege.
18:26:23 <nirik> mmaslano has a -1 in ticket.
18:26:26 <sgallagh> I know mmaslano had some reservations about his collaboration
18:26:32 <sgallagh> yeah
18:27:01 <Viking-Ice> not really
18:27:07 <mitr> This is clearly a second best to maintainers caring about their packages...
18:27:39 <mitr> ... but then, when the maintainers don't care, I can't see a good cause for preventing other people from changing the packages.
18:27:53 <sgallagh> Yeah, that's my opinion to a tee
18:27:59 * nirik nods.
18:28:05 <Viking-Ice> the problem we are faced with are clearly outlined in that ticket and by adding me to the pool of proven packagers results in less time to migrate more time to package instead
18:28:05 <sgallagh> Maintainers have had plenty of time to make this change themselve.
18:28:12 <mitr> (note that this is only an "enablement", not a "request to do more work", at least the way I read the ticket)
18:28:15 <nirik> I think there's a lot of 'I'll apply this when I have time to look and understand systemd' and that time never comes.
18:28:26 <notting> mitr: would seem sort of odd to do enablement w/o expectation
18:28:38 <nirik> Viking-Ice: how many more are around to migrate/
18:28:57 <mitr> notting: The ticket is sort of odd :)
18:29:22 <nirik> I guess we also didn't send this to sponsors for feedback?
18:29:25 <nirik> or did we
18:29:33 <t8m> I have to say I have some reservations about Viking-Ice communication abilities as well.
18:29:47 <notting> nirik: no, because it didn't seem to be of the normal sort. (and was put on the meeting agenda almost immediately anyway)
18:29:59 <nirik> yeah, it's a bit different.
18:30:13 <Viking-Ice> nirik, none today other than me ( others have left due flames and unresponsive packagers left after F15 more or less ) otherwise we had migrated all the stuff already ( since I've migrated units for 100+ components by myself for f17 aline )
18:30:23 <pjones> well, it is and it isn't. I mean, we've got a specific reason here, but he'd still be getting the bit set, right?
18:31:20 <mitr> I'm not too worried about the bit - git makes reverting easy enough, and in general I prefer opening up provenpackager somewhat more anyway
18:31:32 <nirik> Viking-Ice: well, I meant how many services don't have a bug with a patch to migrate them? is that what you are working on mostly? or are all those done now?
18:31:37 <notting> given Viking-Ice's comment about it resulting in less time to migrate, and his request to not have 'special treatment', i'd be inclined to -1 the ticket on those grounds and just going to the normal process.
18:32:07 <notting> TBH, bringing someone into PP to commit changes of this sort seems a bit odd if it's about existing in bugzilla changes - if we want those to happen from PP, any one of us could do it now
18:32:10 <pjones> mitr: fair point, but it's still not that different as a result.
18:32:27 <pjones> notting: and yet we haven't.
18:32:41 <mjg59> If he wants to do it, I'm in favour of enabling it. If he doesn't want to do it, I don't think we should do anything
18:32:47 <mitr> mjg59: +1
18:32:53 <pjones> I can be +1 to that.
18:33:08 <mjg59> (Other than, y'know, we should step up and do the work ourselves and all)
18:33:12 <Viking-Ice> nirik, sorry not following I'm currently finishing packages that start with M of the alphabet A --> M is more or less done migrating and have units attached to them
18:33:22 <nirik> Viking-Ice: ok, cool.
18:33:36 <mjg59> Viking-Ice: Would PP make your life better?
18:33:43 * nirik would be inclined to say -1 to this for now, and let Viking-Ice continue to migrate services.
18:33:51 <mitr> Viking-Ice: so it's a reasonable assumption that granting the privilege would be a no-op at least for the f18 development process?
18:34:01 <nirik> perhaps we could try and revive some FES action and file a bug asking provenpackagers to work on these specifically.
18:34:32 <Viking-Ice> mjg59, I could do more work not only in the migration process but if/when logging stuff needs to fixed as well due to journal
18:35:21 <mitr> Viking-Ice: "the logging stuff" is much more controversial, let's not open that right now...
18:35:27 <Viking-Ice> not having PP means less work for me in the long run more work for PP and maintainers
18:35:43 <Viking-Ice> in general
18:35:53 <Viking-Ice> and longer completion of features as well
18:36:14 <Viking-Ice> I'm always happy having to do less work =)
18:36:24 <limburgher> sorry, /me was called away. back now.
18:36:32 <pjones> yeah, let's not discuss "journal" right now.
18:36:38 <nirik> so, whats our votes?
18:37:08 <Viking-Ice> basically what I seek is the ability to do less nagging more helping
18:37:34 <Viking-Ice> then I can just channel my frustration if I encounter any in fixing things
18:37:37 <mjg59> +1 then
18:37:41 <pjones> +1
18:38:09 <tibbs> Did this request get run by the rest of the provenpackagers as usual? If so I must have missed it.
18:38:24 * nirik is a weak -1 (would prefer more migrating until we get those done) and possibly we can ping other pp's to work on that end.
18:38:24 <notting> tibbs: no, see scrollback
18:39:07 <mitr> Given the past disagreements, could we agree that the PP is not used to override maintainer's technical objections (i.e. "I don't want it done this way" vs. "I don't have time")?
18:39:33 <notting> that sort of goes with the PP territory in general
18:39:41 <Viking-Ice> btw PP privileges can be revoked right or does that never happen?
18:39:53 <pjones> Viking-Ice: well, it never has, but we do reserve the right
18:39:56 * nirik notes we would also have to grant packager here.
18:40:06 <nirik> I think we have actually done so once.
18:40:09 <Viking-Ice> if people are unhappy with my work those privileges can always be revoked right?
18:40:22 <pjones> if we're that unhappy, yes.
18:41:01 <nirik> more votes? (+2 / -2 so far)
18:41:04 <Viking-Ice> I think trial period is in order for people that like we that dont want to be packager but do want to help if we can
18:41:14 <limburgher> Eh. +1. Less work for the rest of us.
18:41:20 <Viking-Ice> and by packager in this term I mean maintain package in the distribution
18:41:29 <nirik> +3/-2
18:41:45 <notting> -1 for same reasoning as stated earlier. also, PP w/o packager first seems odd.
18:41:52 <limburgher> Except he's not a sponsored packager?
18:41:52 <nirik> +3/-3
18:41:58 <limburgher> Oh.
18:42:36 <sgallagh> I'm +0
18:42:43 <t8m> I'm +0 as well
18:42:45 <pjones> Well, the proposal fails.
18:42:45 <limburgher> I didn't realize that. -1. Nothing personal, but I think pp requires a level of experience with the SCM and build system.
18:42:45 <mitr> Given that this is explicitly restricted to systemd conversion, +1 ...
18:43:05 <limburgher> I'll keep helping though. :)
18:43:24 <tibbs> Has there been a more public call for other PP folks to get involved with this?
18:43:44 <tibbs> I mean, I don't even recall seeing any report about how many packages remain to be converted.
18:43:59 <nirik> There's a feature page with a list.
18:44:22 <nirik> #agreed The proposal doesn't pass.
18:44:23 <mitr> tibbs: Viking-Ice has been fairly vocal on fedora-devel
18:44:28 <nirik> we could mail provenpackagers?
18:44:37 <Viking-Ice> not from me no but this has been a know issue after looking and analyze the migration process from F15
18:44:51 <Viking-Ice> mitr, I've not been vocal on devel in F17
18:44:54 <tibbs> I mean, I see a lot of flaming and was the recipient of insults myself, but I don't recall seeing a simple list of what remains to be done.
18:45:42 <Viking-Ice> flaming on my behalf?
18:45:55 <nirik> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Johannbg/Features/SysVtoSystemd-F17
18:46:49 <nirik> so, do we want to make a announcement to provenpackagers? or just move on.
18:46:56 <sgallagh> I feel like we've been on this topic for too long already today
18:47:03 <pjones> indeed.
18:47:08 <nirik> ok.
18:47:15 <pjones> nirik: I'm all for trying to get the issue some more publicity
18:47:25 <nirik> #topic #806 Request for exception for iptables and ip6tables to provide a small init script
18:47:25 <nirik> .fesco 806
18:47:26 <zodbot> nirik: #806 (Request for exception for iptables and ip6tables to provide a small init script) – FESCo - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/806
18:47:29 <nirik> pjones: me too.
18:48:29 <pjones> I'm mildly +1 on this, but before I'm really +1 it seems like there should be a plan in place to fix docs and such to refer to some other mechanism.
18:48:33 <t8m> I'm fine with that although some general solution would be nice as well.
18:48:37 <pjones> (another mechanism may also be good to have in place)
18:48:41 <nirik> so, on this one, I thought just shipping some stub init scripts would make sense, but seems like scope has expanded a lot.
18:48:42 <t8m> So +1
18:48:54 <mitr> I'm -1 to iptables-specific fixes.
18:49:00 <mitr> This is not an iptables problem.
18:49:04 <notting> nirik: stub init scripts would work OOTB. scripts somewhere else require further infrastructure.
18:49:11 <sgallagh> I'm -1 on this. I think that if systemd is going to provide a compatibility layer, it should be 100% compatible
18:49:42 <sgallagh> Sorry, that was poorly phrased.
18:49:50 <nirik> I fear if we wait for the 'solve all these' solution it will be so long from now that everyone will have already moved on. ;)
18:49:59 <mitr> sgallagh: "/sbin/service" is owned by Fedora's own initscripts. systemd is not 100% compatible, that ship has sailed I'm afraid.
18:50:48 <sgallagh> I would prefer that we avoid exceptions, especially exceptions for such core functionality.
18:51:50 <nirik> so, I'm also ok with passing the buck to FPC, but we should be clear on what we are asking them. Change to allow stubs? change to allow these non standard things somehow? something else?
18:52:22 <mitr> notting: where "further infrastructure" is ~10 lines of shell code + one directory, right? I suppose the important question is "how many of the packagers would do the work to add back the non-standard actions".
18:52:59 <nirik> this should also just be a temp compat thing... it should point them to the new command.
18:52:59 <notting> mitr: it's defining new, fedora-specific inifrastructure, yes.
18:53:23 <mitr> nirik: _which_ new command? iptables upstream does not provide the same functionality.
18:53:23 <notting> mitr: whereas packaging the old initscript as well is at least not fedora-specific
18:53:34 <mjg59> I can sort of see this for F15 and F16
18:53:45 <mjg59> And /arguably/ F17 if it's purely for the static firewall case
18:53:58 <mjg59> But only if that code is absolutely being dropped in F18
18:54:22 <nirik> mitr: '/usr/libexec/iptables.init save' I guess...
18:54:37 <nirik> mjg59: yeah, and the boat has already left the harbor
18:55:08 <mitr> mjg59: "we broke Fedora's usual commands, we'll temporarily fix them but break them again in a year"? That doesn't make sense to me.
18:56:02 <nirik> yeah, so perhaps the window has closed and we should just say no thanks to the entire thing.
18:56:09 <pjones> nirik: pointing people to the new command there sucks; there's automation to consider.
18:56:12 <mitr> Considering that these special actions were Fedora/RHL-specific for so long (decades in the case of iptables), I can't see a good cause for upstreams to suddenly accept this functionality
18:56:42 <nirik> pjones: ? someone automates iptables save? that seems... an odd way to do things.
18:56:56 <mitr> nirik: kickstarts?
18:57:01 <mitr> ... right, odd
18:57:01 <mjg59> mitr: It's a transition to new commands. If the expectation was that those commands continue working in old releases then we should make sure they keep working
18:57:02 <pjones> nirik: for example system-config-firewall?
18:57:13 <mitr> mjg59: _which_ new commands, again?
18:57:21 <mjg59> If there's no expectation of that then the new way of doing things should be documented and this entirely ignored
18:57:31 <nirik> pjones: it calls the init script? I would hope not, but who knwos...
18:57:32 <mitr> I think we can either decide that a) all special commands should arrive upstream, and it's fine to break the Fedora-specific commands, or b) Fedora will have non-upstream commands, and in this case there's absolutely no reason to break the old ones
18:58:08 <mjg59> mitr: I was under the impression that the new dynamic code would have support for saving and restoring rulesets
18:58:27 <mitr> mjg59: That merely avoids the iptables problem, doesn't solve the general case. postgresql, network, ...
18:58:40 <notting> to clarify: i'm fine with an exception for iptables for shipping the old init script to support these. i'm a little leery of creating a fedora-specific extensions to the /sbin/service helper script that won't be exposed elsewhere.
18:58:42 <mjg59> Yes. They all need to provide equivalent functionality
18:59:02 <mjg59> Or, alternatively, accept that there's been a reduction in functionality, and that should be documented
18:59:23 <nirik> I think they all do, but they are just different commands now...
18:59:33 <nirik> since they can't hang off service/the init script
18:59:47 <mjg59> If it's "This old howto doesn't work any more" then CLOSED->WELCOME_TO_2000
19:00:55 <mitr> mjg59: Breaking users' functionality without providing them any benefit in return? what's the point?
19:01:19 <mjg59> mitr: Backward-compatibility via Fedora-specific hacks?
19:01:34 <mitr> mjg59: Backward compatibility to Fedora-specific code would necessarily be Fedora-specific
19:01:34 <nirik> I still think it's worth it to provide the old command as a compat option for a few more releases...
19:01:53 <nirik> but perhaps I am in the minority.
19:02:02 <mjg59> I'm struggling with why "This old way no longer works, you have to do it a new way" is an unacceptable option
19:02:12 <mjg59> Given that that's what we upload approximately every 30 seconds
19:02:37 <nirik> mjg59: the only pointer to 'the new way' is in release notes or other places no one reads/
19:02:41 <mjg59> If we're committing to providing backwards compatibility, then let's make that policy
19:02:50 <mjg59> If we're not, then let's get on with life
19:03:23 <nirik> proposal: ask FPC if we can add to systemd guidelines to allow for non standard service commands to continue to work in a systemd world.
19:03:27 <t8m> we are not committing to anything (mostly)
19:03:47 <notting> nirik: +1
19:03:47 <mjg59> So let's get on with life
19:03:49 <t8m> nirik, +1
19:03:54 <mitr> mjg59: Given that it would take someone ~4-16 hours to keep the old way working, and save ~4 hours for thousands of users.... the tradeoff seems easy enough for me, especially where there is 0 benefit to doing ti the other way
19:03:54 <mjg59> It's just another case where we broke backwards compatibility
19:04:00 <mitr> +1
19:04:05 <nirik> right.
19:04:18 <mjg59> mitr: The benefit is that we don't end up carrying Fedora-specific hacks for an arbitrary period of time
19:04:25 <mjg59> So I'm -1
19:04:36 <nirik> +4/-1
19:04:39 <nirik> more votes?
19:04:56 <sgallagh> +1 why not
19:04:57 <t8m> mjg59, yep I noticed that we are very happy to break backwards compatibility very often for no real reason recently
19:05:15 <nirik> +5/-1
19:05:23 <mjg59> I'm entirely in favour of requiring that this kind of thing be documented, though
19:05:29 <nirik> #agreed ask FPC if we can add to systemd guidelines to allow for non standard service commands to continue to work in a systemd world.
19:05:38 <nirik> would someone step up to file a FPC ticket ?
19:05:42 <mitr> mjg59: Where is the line betweeen "Fedora functionality" and "Fedora-specific hack"? In the extreeme, what good does a "Fedora distribution" do if everything it does is "a Fedora-specific hack"?
19:05:51 <pjones> I'm very +0 on this. Very difficult to care about more than "it needs to be documented".
19:06:08 * nirik can do so if no one else wants to.
19:06:20 <t8m> mitr, +1
19:06:20 <notting> nirik: that sounds like volunteering!
19:06:22 <nirik> #action nirik to file a FPC ticket asking for them to look into this.
19:06:39 <nirik> anything else here?
19:06:51 <nirik> #topic #810 Clarify our position on forks
19:06:51 <nirik> .fesco 810
19:06:53 <zodbot> nirik: #810 (Clarify our position on forks) – FESCo - https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/810
19:07:22 <pjones> sgallagh: also the bullshit watermark is pretty high
19:07:25 <sgallagh> Proposal: (as made on devel@): Forks should be allowed if they can be parallel-installed.
19:07:29 <sgallagh> hahaha
19:07:30 <pjones> (there we go, got that on the right ticket)
19:07:52 <t8m> sgallagh, +1
19:07:57 <nirik> mmaslano has "+1 for accepting forks, but it needs defined boundaries, probably given by FPC."
19:08:02 <nirik> in ticket
19:08:14 <mjg59> Most of the arguments in favour of this are also arguments in favour of bundled libraries, providing that the maintainer is aware of the bundled library
19:08:42 <pjones> mjg59: not necessarily; you could read it in favor of also having forked libraries
19:08:43 <sgallagh> mjg59: I'm not sure that's true. I think this is an argument for how to unbundle
19:09:05 <nirik> If we say 'no forks', who's going to remove libreoffice and repackage openoffice. ;)
19:09:06 <mjg59> Bundled libraries are ok if you make them a subpackage?
19:09:12 <mitr> mjg59: ... which the maintainer demonstrates by unbundling the library, resulting in a "fork"
19:09:17 <mitr> +1 to sgallagh
19:09:18 <pjones> mjg59: right.
19:09:27 <limburgher> sgallagh: +1
19:09:47 <mjg59> I'm +1 providing that FPC will define broader policy
19:09:48 <t8m> mjg59, not a subpackage - full package with real upstream releases
19:10:02 <notting> with the specific example that generated this, even if it's not signficantly different now, it's certainly implied that it *will* diverge in short order
19:10:08 <mjg59> notting: Oh sure
19:10:21 <mjg59> notting: I look forward to seeing how many copies of gconfd we can have running at once
19:10:23 <pjones> yeah, the key difference is real upstream releases. the trick is going to be in telling if that requirement is satisfied before there's a second one.
19:10:48 <pjones> notting: perhaps it's not worth allowing until it has?
19:11:25 <nirik> I think any qualitative measure may be doomed... if we require 2 releases, someone could just do another one... etc.
19:11:25 <notting> pjones: not accepting forked version of mutter in this case would require non-upstreamable changes to miuffin's dependencies, so... meh.
19:11:28 <mitr> mjg59: I find it sort of hard to believe that an UI fork would feel the need to fork gconfd as well
19:11:31 <mjg59> pjones: Except then we're forbidding Gnome forks because we're part of the Gnome 3 cabal
19:11:36 <mjg59> mitr: Yeah, uh.
19:11:44 <pjones> mjg59: *eyeroll*
19:11:47 <mjg59> mitr: At least one of them did
19:12:56 <mjg59> Anyway. I think this is probably going to end up as a great way to get more mostly bitrotting code into the distribution because people are unable to play nicely together, but if it weren't for that then we'd probably all be running Minix, so +1
19:13:04 <nirik> Proposal: ask FPC to clarify when Forked packages are acceptable to add to the collection, taking into account parallel installing, lack of interfereing with other packages, viability of maintainance.
19:13:19 <mjg59> Providing FPC stuff and yeah what nirik says
19:13:25 <limburgher> +1
19:13:29 <nirik> (I guess drop the last bit.
19:13:39 <nirik> since we don't require any level of maint already.
19:13:41 <mitr> I'd s/viability of maintenance// away, we never ask about this for new packages
19:13:42 <limburgher> Right.
19:13:49 <drago01> (fwiw the mutter fork makes no sense because mutter is not supposed to be tied to gnome-shell but ot)
19:13:49 * nirik nods.
19:13:49 <limburgher> Or old ones.
19:13:56 <notting> is there a reason it needs to go to fpc?
19:14:01 <nirik> Proposal: ask FPC to clarify when Forked packages are acceptable to add to the collection, taking into account parallel installing, lack of interfereing with other packages, or other factors.
19:14:13 <notting> i.e., "proposal: forks are allowed provided they do not conflict or interfere with other packages"
19:14:20 <mitr> +1 to notting
19:14:26 <sgallagh> +1 to notting
19:14:27 <nirik> yeah, I suppose not...
19:14:33 <t8m> +1 to notting
19:14:36 <mitr> Let's involve FPC when actual conflicts need to be solved, and the involved parties have something specific to discuss
19:14:46 <mjg59> I'd like some definition of what interfering with other packages actually means
19:14:49 <notting> oh, also: provided they are not the kernel.
19:14:51 <sgallagh> Ultimately, a fork is no different than allowing in two disparate packages with similar functionality.
19:15:07 <drago01> notting: hah good point
19:15:18 <sgallagh> mjg59: Not shipping a competing libc, for example?
19:15:24 * nirik gets to packaging mock microkernel.
19:15:45 <mjg59> As long as I call it libsuperc.so that'd be fine?
19:15:47 <pjones> sgallagh: why not? we've shipped several before.
19:15:55 <mitr> sgallagh: Hm, we had "interesting" discussions about dietlibc and others
19:15:59 * nirik has to step away for a minute.
19:16:04 <sgallagh> pjones: I meant where it assumed libc.so
19:16:10 <sgallagh> If it's libsuperc.so, that's fine with me
19:16:30 <mitr> I guess I don't care about packaging forks, but we'd want to know if any are dragged into the default DVD / $other_important_package_set
19:16:30 <sgallagh> I just would want people to have to target it specifically at link-time
19:16:36 <mjg59> But, for instance, if you have two packages that have no filespace collisions but use the same socket name?
19:16:47 <mitr> s/any/two or more forks/
19:16:52 <pjones> mjg59: oh, like gconfd and whateverconfd?
19:16:54 <notting> mjg59: like... nginx and apache?
19:17:01 <mjg59> pjones: That kind of thing, yes
19:17:04 <mjg59> notting: Ha.
19:17:19 <mjg59> notting: Less bad with leaf packages, I guess
19:17:37 <sgallagh> mjg59: I think socket collision still falls in my "parallel-installable" restriction I proposed
19:17:46 <mjg59> But if there's an assumption that these stacks are parallel installable then the entire stack needs to be audited for that
19:18:01 <mjg59> Because otherwise breakage will be subtle and unexpected
19:18:32 <nirik> FPC may come up with some additional guidelines/policy for forks... dunno.
19:18:46 * nirik is +1 in general, but wouldn't mind FPC weighing in.
19:19:58 <nirik> how about: "proposal: forks are allowed provided they do not conflict or interfere with other packages. FPC may add additional guidelines to forks as they see fit" ?
19:20:07 <notting> wfm. +1
19:20:15 <limburgher> nirik: +1
19:20:17 <mitr> +1
19:20:29 * nirik is +1 too
19:21:23 <t8m> no problem +1
19:21:24 <sgallagh> +1
19:21:38 <nirik> #agreed forks are allowed provided they do not conflict or interfere with other packages. FPC may add additional guidelines to forks as they see fit"
19:21:47 <nirik> #topic Open Floor
19:21:53 <nirik> Anyone have items for open floor?
19:21:54 <Viking-Ice> I got one
19:21:58 <sgallagh> Yes
19:22:05 <sgallagh> Viking-Ice: Go ahead
19:22:07 <nirik> go head Viking-Ice ...
19:22:21 <Viking-Ice> clear if systemd units are allowed to be shipped up to beta like they could last release cycle
19:22:29 <Viking-Ice> afaik nothing has changed to not warrant that?
19:22:52 <notting> we certainly haven't decided/voted on any changes to that
19:22:58 <notting> afair
19:23:08 <sgallagh> Seems reasonable to me
19:23:14 <t8m> yep
19:23:55 <Viking-Ice> did not think so but maintainers are unsure so if you send any announcement to -devel regarding systemd that info should be included in that announcement ( if it's allowed or not )
19:23:58 <nirik> yeah, I'm fine with that...
19:24:31 <nirik> any objections? would someone like to send out an announcement?
19:25:43 <limburgher> I have no objections if the maintainers agree and/or do it themselves.
19:26:05 <Viking-Ice> well PP helping should be building this for F17 in that case
19:26:29 <limburgher> I can do the announcement, do we want to go over wording, or should I Just Do It?
19:26:53 <mitr> just do it :)
19:26:55 <nirik> limburgher: fine with me if you want to just do it. ;) Might also point to the list and note that pp's are welcome to help.
19:26:57 <limburgher> Viking-Ice: Now that we've got that cleared up, going forward, with the maintainer's ok, yes. :)
19:27:09 <Viking-Ice> =)
19:27:14 <limburgher> Will do.
19:27:57 <limburgher> #action limburgher will announce systemd migrations for f17 accepted until Beta, include link to BZ list and invite PP assistance.
19:28:07 <nirik> excellent.
19:28:38 <nirik> sgallagh: ?
19:29:42 <sgallagh> When do we want to start looking at F18 Features? I know of a few that are already in FeatureReadyForWrangler (including one of my own that we want to start landing in Rawhide ASAP)
19:29:43 * mitr queues after sgallagh for the open floor
19:30:11 <limburgher> Next week maybe?
19:30:21 <notting> ... whenever rbergeron wants to throw them at us, IMO
19:30:33 * Viking-Ice got another minor one
19:30:50 <notting> or 'the fedora program manager', to be more precise
19:30:54 * mitr would prefer sooner rather than later
19:31:14 <sgallagh> Yes, same here. Especially for features that touch multiple packages
19:31:18 <nirik> yeah, sooner would be fine here too.
19:31:30 <nirik> perhaps see if we can get robin or someone to wrangle them for next week?
19:31:35 <nirik> oh, who wants to chair next week? ;)
19:31:38 <sgallagh> (To avoid ambiguity, I'm talking about the Kerberos CcacheMove feature, specifically)
19:31:51 <limburgher> sgallagh: I assumed as much. :)
19:32:17 <mitr> nirik: 2 more things for open floor, I think
19:32:48 <sgallagh> Ok, I'll talk to rbergeron about getting F18 Features on the queue for next week
19:32:49 <nirik> mitr: go ahead
19:33:06 <mitr> Update on #798 (Ctrl-Space taken over by ibus)
19:33:07 <OzBorne> salut je suis un utilisateur de base...
19:33:27 <sgallagh> OzBorne: FESCo meeting is running long. We should be done in a few more minutes.
19:33:37 <mitr> AFAICS ( https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/798#comment:17 ) ibus is supposed to run only in CJK locales, and I think that's a reasonable default.
19:34:10 <notting> mitr: CJKI, but sure.
19:34:13 <mitr> Assuming that is the intent, proposal: treat other cases (e.g. ibus running in en_US) as bugs, no FESCo decission necessary
19:34:30 <sgallagh> mitr: +1
19:34:35 <limburgher> mitr: +1
19:34:54 <nirik> sure, +1
19:35:40 <notting> seems reasonable. +1
19:35:58 <t8m> mitr, +1
19:36:12 <nirik> #agreed for ibus (ticket 798): treat other cases (e.g. ibus running in en_US) as bugs, no FESCo decission necessary
19:36:20 <mitr> Thanks
19:36:23 <nirik> mitr: thanks. Did you have another item?
19:36:25 <mitr> Viking-Ice had one more item
19:36:26 <Viking-Ice> just a minor procedural issue. It would be good if deprecation/orphan notice ( as in "if you plan to no longer maintain or know if your package is going to be obsoleted/dropped/removed etc" ) should be sent now ( or as early as possible ) so feature owners can be working on the bits that actually will be in the release. Sounds most logical to do this stuff at branched time as in the beginning of the next rawhide cycle
19:36:48 <mitr> Would it be easy enough to list all dependent packages (... recursively) in the notice?
19:37:12 <notting> Viking-Ice: that's generally done "whenever someone decides to give it up". we could encourage people, certainly.
19:37:39 <Viking-Ice> notting, that would help
19:39:12 <Viking-Ice> I spent time on migrating stuff for components that later got deprecated or remove
19:39:18 <Viking-Ice> s/remove/removed
19:39:30 <notting> Viking-Ice: ok, i'll go looking through the wiki to see where that's logical to add, and can add a note to the list re: f18 development
19:39:42 <nirik> cool.
19:39:45 <Viking-Ice> thanks
19:39:47 <nirik> any other open floor items?
19:40:16 * nirik will close out in a minute then.
19:40:49 <nirik> oh, chair next week?
19:40:49 <notting> did we get a chair?
19:40:50 <nirik> anyone?
19:41:08 <notting> i can do it
19:41:13 <nirik> #action notting to chair next week.
19:41:15 <nirik> thanks!
19:41:19 <nirik> Thanks for coming everyone.
19:41:22 <nirik> #endmeeting
Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (bcotton, 14:00:26)
* Follow up on last week's action items (bcotton, 14:04:54)
* ACTION: Sparks to find out who will be maintaining rbergero's
calendars (bcotton, 14:05:41)
* Release Notes (bcotton, 14:05:53)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Notes_schedule
(bcotton, 14:06:00)
* ACTION: jjmcd to get Technical Notes done (bcotton, 14:17:10)
* Guide Status (bcotton, 14:17:23)
* LINK:
http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-17/f-17-docs-tree-tasks.html
(bcotton, 14:17:32)
* ACTION: bcotton to check on guide owners for F17 (bcotton,
14:19:20)
* Outstanding BZ Tickets (bcotton, 14:20:43)
* LINK: http://tinyurl.com/lbrq84 (bcotton, 14:20:53)
* Open floor discussion (bcotton, 14:22:07)
Meeting ended at 14:28:26 UTC.
Action Items
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* Sparks to find out who will be maintaining rbergero's calendars
* jjmcd to get Technical Notes done
* bcotton to check on guide owners for F17
Action Items, by person
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* bcotton
* bcotton to check on guide owners for F17
* jjmcd
* jjmcd to get Technical Notes done
* **UNASSIGNED**
* Sparks to find out who will be maintaining rbergero's calendars
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* bcotton (39)
* jjmcd (13)
* rbergeron (11)
* chuckf (8)
* zoglesby (6)
* zodbot (3)
* jsmith (2)
* shaiton (1)
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Ben Cotton
Fedora Docs Leader
Thanks to all those who came today - sounds like we will be hitting a
lot of goals for F17, and seeing more cool stuff in F18. :)
Minutes:
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Have a great weekend! :)
-Robyn
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#fedora-meeting: Cloud SIG
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 18:59:54 UTC. The full logs are
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* Roll Call (rbergeron, 19:00:04)
* OpenNebula (rbergeron, 19:03:13)
* LINK:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_gro…
(ke4qqq, 19:07:36)
* all rubygem deps are in F17; working on opennebula.spec and is also
working through needed changes in fedora packaging (rbergeron,
19:08:29)
* ACTION: spstarr to add opennebula to comps.xml (rbergeron,
19:08:44)
* AWS and Mirrors and the like (rbergeron, 19:09:33)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Amazon
(mdomsch, 19:09:54)
* Amazon / MIrroring is coming along; initial sync done, ~77GB pushed
over 48 hours; running into problems with s3cmd sync code
(rbergeron, 19:12:00)
* still need to find out how to restrict access to a bucket by region
(rbergeron, 19:14:17)
* *we all look at spevack* (rbergeron, 19:15:41)
* Get Fedora webpage updated to include cloud (rbergeron, 19:20:44)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora (rbergeron, 19:20:53)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/83
(rbergeron, 19:21:13)
* LINK: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options (rbergeron,
19:23:00)
* ACTION: rbergeron to take a first crack at the get-fedora-options
tab for ec2 stuff (rbergeron, 19:25:28)
* ACTION: shaiton to add robyn to the websites ticket (rbergeron,
19:27:17)
* Cloudstack/Euca/AS7 dependency fun (rbergeron, 19:27:41)
* still a few dependencies left shared by euca/cloudstack/as7, but
making progress (rbergeron, 19:34:50)
* as7 is compiling and booting partially, which is awesome
(rbergeron, 19:35:01)
* plan is to package web profile for F17 (rbergeron, 19:35:33)
* Open Floor (rbergeron, 19:36:32)
* LINK: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
(rbergeron, 19:38:42)
Meeting ended at 19:52:40 UTC.
Action Items
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* spstarr to add opennebula to comps.xml
* rbergeron to take a first crack at the get-fedora-options tab for ec2
stuff
* shaiton to add robyn to the websites ticket
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* rbergeron
* rbergeron to take a first crack at the get-fedora-options tab for
ec2 stuff
* shaiton
* shaiton to add robyn to the websites ticket
* spstarr
* spstarr to add opennebula to comps.xml
* **UNASSIGNED**
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* mgoldmann (33)
* ke4qqq (21)
* spstarr (20)
* mdomsch (20)
* shaiton (17)
* gholms (16)
* nilsson (11)
* tdawson_ (11)
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* jsmith (3)
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* jforbes (1)
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#fedora-meeting: Infrastructure (2012-02-23)
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Meeting started by nirik at 21:00:01 UTC. The full logs are available at
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Meeting summary
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* Robot Roll Call (nirik, 21:00:01)
* New folks introductions and apprentice tasks/feedback (nirik,
21:01:49)
* two factor auth status (nirik, 21:08:30)
* Staging re-work status (nirik, 21:08:56)
* Alpha Release Tickets (nirik, 21:09:24)
* ACTION: smooge to update fedora-release sop with maps info. (nirik,
21:12:38)
* ACTION: smooge to archive/remove f13/f14 content. (nirik, 21:12:56)
* Applications status / discussion (nirik, 21:14:36)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Amazon
(mdomsch, 21:15:16)
* help needed on s3 sync script. See mdomsch. (nirik, 21:16:49)
* LINK: http://ambre.pingoured.fr/public/easyfix2.html now includes
bugzilla's easyfix (pingou, 21:17:29)
* Upcoming Tasks/Items (nirik, 21:25:25)
* 2012-02-14 to 2012-02-28 - F17 Alpha Freeze (nirik, 21:25:34)
* 2012-02-28 - F17alpha release day (nirik, 21:25:34)
* 2012-03-01 - nag fi-apprentices. (nirik, 21:25:34)
* 2012-03-10 - drop inactive fi-apprentices (nirik, 21:25:34)
* 2012-03-20 to 2012-04-03 - F17 Beta Freeze (nirik, 21:25:34)
* 2012-03-07 to 2012-03-14 - Pycon (nirik, 21:26:07)
* Open Floor (nirik, 21:28:35)
* LINK: http://xkcd.com/221/ (CodeBlock, 21:34:04)
Meeting ended at 21:36:18 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* smooge to update fedora-release sop with maps info.
* smooge to archive/remove f13/f14 content.
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* smooge
* smooge to update fedora-release sop with maps info.
* smooge to archive/remove f13/f14 content.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* nirik (81)
* mdomsch (22)
* smooge (21)
* skvidal (11)
* CodeBlock (9)
* zodbot (8)
* dgilmore (8)
* ctria (7)
* lmacken (6)
* amitphukan_ (5)
* pingou (4)
* adrianhannah (4)
* rbergeron (3)
* abadger1999 (2)
* ianweller (1)
* StarBeast (1)
* ricky (0)
* Codeblock (0)
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21:00:01 <nirik> #startmeeting Infrastructure (2012-02-23)
21:00:01 <zodbot> Meeting started Thu Feb 23 21:00:01 2012 UTC. The chair is nirik. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
21:00:01 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic.
21:00:01 <nirik> #meetingname infrastructure
21:00:01 <nirik> #topic Robot Roll Call
21:00:01 <nirik> #chair smooge skvidal Codeblock ricky nirik abadger1999 lmacken dgilmore mdomsch
21:00:01 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'infrastructure'
21:00:01 <zodbot> Current chairs: Codeblock abadger1999 dgilmore lmacken mdomsch nirik ricky skvidal smooge
21:00:06 <nirik> hey look, another meeting. ;)
21:00:09 * skvidal is here
21:00:10 <smooge> here
21:00:15 <dgilmore> buenos
21:00:15 <rbergeron> SHINY
21:00:15 <mdomsch> whee
21:00:30 <StarBeast> here
21:00:32 <nirik> we are keeping the #fedora-meeting channel rocking today. ;)
21:00:44 <mdomsch> what time is the meeting moving to next week?
21:00:46 * ctria here
21:00:49 <mdomsch> earlier or later?
21:00:56 * ianweller here
21:00:56 * abadger1999 here
21:00:56 * lmacken here
21:01:18 <nirik> one hour earlier.
21:01:29 <rbergeron> nirik: it's pretty awesome
21:01:41 <nirik> yeah.
21:01:46 <nirik> ok, lets go ahead and dive in...
21:01:49 <nirik> #topic New folks introductions and apprentice tasks/feedback
21:02:00 <nirik> any new folks or apprentices care to discuss anything or say hi?
21:02:04 * CodeBlock here
21:02:10 <ctria> hi i'm a new folk :)
21:02:22 <smooge> hi new folks
21:02:24 <adrianhannah> Hello! I'm new
21:02:32 <smooge> we have a couple others who are 12 hours off.
21:02:35 <rbergeron> ooh! new folks galore :)
21:02:44 <nirik> welcome ctria and adrianhannah. Care to give a quick bio and what you might be interested in working on?
21:03:14 <ctria> ok, i'm sysadmin in a Greek university
21:03:35 <adrianhannah> 13 year sys admin in different industries - I like tool development
21:03:45 <ctria> with responsibilities off administering 2 grid clusters plus security office duties
21:04:15 <ctria> i'm also in developing/scripting
21:04:21 * adrianhannah is on his phone so forgive the typing lag
21:04:24 <nirik> great! if you guys can see me after the meeting we can look at pointing you to things to work on or look around at.
21:04:31 <adrianhannah> Cool
21:04:37 <ctria> sure
21:05:01 <nirik> any other new folks want to give a quick bio and what they might like to work on?
21:05:14 * amitphukan_ new here
21:05:34 <nirik> welcome amitphukan_
21:05:41 <amitphukan_> nirik : thanks.
21:06:18 <nirik> amitphukan_: any intro or kind of things you might like to work on ?
21:06:31 <amitphukan_> i have exposure to very basic system administration stuff and i am here to learn and develop my skills
21:07:10 <amitphukan_> i am interested in scripting and automation, though i have very little experience on both
21:07:21 <nirik> excellent.
21:07:34 <nirik> do see me after the meeting over in #fedora-admin and we can get you started.
21:07:46 <amitphukan_> nirik : sure
21:07:53 * nirik will move on in a minute if no more new folks appear.
21:08:30 <nirik> #topic two factor auth status
21:08:44 <nirik> No new news on this I know of... can try and move it along
21:08:56 <nirik> #topic Staging re-work status
21:09:07 <nirik> this is waiting until after our current freeze... but should pick up then.
21:09:24 <nirik> #topic Alpha Release Tickets
21:09:42 <nirik> we should be able to knock out these in the next few days.
21:09:51 <nirik> .ticket 3136
21:09:52 <zodbot> nirik: #3136 (Fedora17 Alpha - new website) – Fedora Infrastructure - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3136
21:09:53 <nirik> .ticket 3137
21:09:55 <zodbot> nirik: #3137 (Fedora17 Alpha - Verify mirror space) – Fedora Infrastructure - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3137
21:09:59 <nirik> .ticket 3138
21:10:00 <zodbot> nirik: #3138 (Fedora17 Alpha - release day ticket) – Fedora Infrastructure - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3138
21:10:01 <nirik> .ticket 3139
21:10:04 <zodbot> nirik: #3139 (Fedora17 Alpha - verify permissions on content) – Fedora Infrastructure - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3139
21:10:35 <smooge> was there a ticket to deal with maps and such
21:10:59 <nirik> there wasn't... perhaps we should add that to the sop?
21:11:32 <dgilmore> are the maps back up?
21:11:39 <mdomsch> #3137 - currelty 770G on the master mirror
21:11:52 <mdomsch> releases/13 can be nuked as it's in archive now
21:11:56 <nirik> dgilmore: not yet.
21:12:08 <dgilmore> 14 should be moved and nuked also
21:12:11 <dgilmore> nirik: ok
21:12:13 <smooge> nirik, I thought it was.. sorry I will correct and add
21:12:27 <nirik> smooge: cool. Thanks.
21:12:27 <mdomsch> dgilmore: ok
21:12:38 <nirik> #action smooge to update fedora-release sop with maps info.
21:12:42 <smooge> I can whack 13/14 after 2 +1's. also
21:12:42 <mdomsch> I think smooge was working on that, but wanted me around when he nuked it to be sure MM picks up the move
21:12:56 <nirik> #action smooge to archive/remove f13/f14 content.
21:13:02 <smooge> they should be archived
21:13:14 <smooge> its just remove and then figure out what didn't take :)
21:13:20 <nirik> cool.
21:13:24 <nirik> would be good to get that done.
21:13:32 <dgilmore> yep
21:13:50 <nirik> ok, anything more on alpha release?
21:14:25 <nirik> moving along...
21:14:36 <nirik> #topic Applications status / discussion
21:14:52 * mdomsch has a new application - s3-mirror
21:14:58 <nirik> lmacken / threebean / abadger1999 / pingou / mdomsch: any application news, issues or things of note?
21:15:10 <mdomsch> it needs some love
21:15:16 <nirik> mdomsch: cool. is that just a script? or more to it?
21:15:16 <mdomsch> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Amazon
21:15:25 <mdomsch> it's just a script really
21:15:45 <mdomsch> but the s3cmd program is crapping out somewhere
21:15:47 <nirik> cool. Is it already working? or ?
21:15:50 <nirik> ;(
21:15:54 <mdomsch> so the initial sync is done
21:16:00 <mdomsch> but subsequent update syncs are failing
21:16:28 <mdomsch> I need someone who can follow the API calls/returns to figure out why it's dying receiving an empty XML document
21:16:31 <mdomsch> e.g. ''
21:16:49 <nirik> #info help needed on s3 sync script. See mdomsch.
21:17:29 <pingou> http://ambre.pingoured.fr/public/easyfix2.html now includes bugzilla's easyfix
21:18:25 <nirik> mdomsch: might be worth filing a easyfix ticket about the problem and seeing if anyone can look into it.
21:18:36 <lmacken> pingou: awesome.
21:18:41 <nirik> (see what I did there... tying those together :)
21:18:41 <mdomsch> nirik: I doubt it's easyfix material
21:18:54 <mdomsch> at least, it wouldn't be easyfix for me...
21:18:57 <nirik> ok. I was just hoping it was a command option or something...
21:19:07 <nirik> but I suppose you already checked all that
21:19:09 <pingou> lmacken: nirik was wondering how/if it could be included into packages
21:19:22 <mdomsch> it's in the bowels
21:19:47 <skvidal> mdomsch: can't promise anything - but could you point me at what you're seeing?
21:20:17 <nirik> lmacken: not sure it makes sense in there, but packages has a lot of the same info already... ie, bugs, etc.
21:20:47 <mdomsch> skvidal: sure. bapp01, ~mdomsch, s3sync-3rdpass.log or somesuch. It feels like it's not getting back from S3 something it thinks it should via API call
21:20:55 <lmacken> pingou: I think it would fit better under a new Bugs Dashboard... the code could easily live in the fedoracommunity.git if we wanted too
21:21:02 <dgilmore> nirik: thats been my thought about packages since i first saw it, that it duplicates alot of things that exist already
21:21:53 <pingou> lmacken: I was actually thinking about a dedicated part at the top of the bug tab or something like this
21:22:05 <nirik> dgilmore: yeah, there's overlap between several other things (most notably pkgdb), but packager does things in a pretty nice way and is fast, so I think we should look at moving those duplicate things over to it...
21:22:22 <lmacken> pingou: cool, we'll talk about it more in #fedora-apps :)
21:22:37 <nirik> any other application news or info?
21:22:56 <pingou> lmacken: nirik but that would work easily for bugzilla's easyfix, might be more tricky for fedorahosted one
21:22:56 <nirik> lmacken: any progress on puppeting packages/tagger for production ? or would you like me to look at that?
21:23:23 <dgilmore> nirik: having it all be unified from a user standpoint is great
21:23:31 <lmacken> nirik: sorry, I haven't had any cycles to poke at it :\ If you wanna take a look, it would be much appreciated.
21:23:42 <dgilmore> nirik: but it does mean that package actually needs to do a lot more than it does today
21:23:47 <nirik> sure, I can try and whip something up. should just be some renaming and copying from whats in stg.
21:23:54 <lmacken> nirik: yep
21:24:26 <nirik> yeah, would be good to identify the overlaps and come up with a plan for them at some point.
21:25:11 <nirik> ok, moving along then?
21:25:25 <nirik> #topic Upcoming Tasks/Items
21:25:34 <nirik> #info 2012-02-14 to 2012-02-28 - F17 Alpha Freeze
21:25:34 <nirik> #info 2012-02-28 - F17alpha release day
21:25:34 <nirik> #info 2012-03-01 - nag fi-apprentices.
21:25:34 <nirik> #info 2012-03-10 - drop inactive fi-apprentices
21:25:34 <nirik> #info 2012-03-20 to 2012-04-03 - F17 Beta Freeze
21:25:47 <nirik> any other upcoming items folks would like to note/schedule/shout out?
21:26:02 * nirik adds into there:
21:26:07 <nirik> #info 2012-03-07 to 2012-03-14 - Pycon
21:26:47 <nirik> after the freeze I want to see if I can move bapp01 and as many apps as possible over to rhel6
21:27:15 <nirik> also ideally we would get our staging rework done before beta freeze, but we will see.
21:28:35 <nirik> #topic Open Floor
21:28:42 <nirik> anyone have any items for open floor?
21:29:14 <smooge> I am working on mailman chanbges
21:29:21 <skvidal> ?
21:29:24 <smooge> for the current stuff.
21:29:31 <skvidal> oh
21:29:34 <smooge> stuff that skvidal outlined a while ago
21:29:38 <skvidal> gotcha
21:29:41 <smooge> 1) Remove password generation template
21:29:42 <nirik> oh cool.
21:29:52 <smooge> 2) Set everyone's password to some random string.
21:30:00 <smooge> 3) Never talk about it again
21:30:46 <nirik> ok. I expect some of that will need to be 'hotfixes'...
21:30:48 <smooge> should be ready sometime after freeze
21:30:56 <nirik> but I could be wrong, perhaps it can be done in config.
21:31:01 <mdomsch> smooge: mailman auth == FAS auth then?
21:31:06 <smooge> noooooooo
21:31:14 <mdomsch> haha
21:31:17 <smooge> mailman only knows about cleartext
21:31:23 * abadger1999 is thnking no as well
21:31:25 <smooge> and too many passwrods are the other way
21:31:39 <nirik> mdomsch: basically remove the ability of people to pick a password, they get a random one instead of one that could well be used by them elsewhere.
21:32:10 <smooge> and if they use the random one else where.. life sucks.
21:32:19 <CodeBlock> hah
21:32:19 <ctria> :)
21:32:23 <nirik> and remove the password from the reminder emails it sends out monthy
21:32:30 <smooge> though I think setting everyone to Qwerty123456 has its appeal
21:32:39 <nirik> if someone forgets their pass they can just use the reset pass and get a new random one. ;)
21:32:48 <CodeBlock> nirik: We could modify the dpsearch crawler. If it comes across a login form, quickly run down the list of random passwords and try them.
21:32:49 * CodeBlock hides
21:32:51 <CodeBlock> smooge: *
21:32:55 <nirik> ha.
21:33:04 <CodeBlock> ;)
21:33:08 <skvidal> nim-nim: they won't actually get a new random one on resetpass
21:33:14 <skvidal> err s/nim-nim/nirik/
21:33:25 <skvidal> nirik: they will get the same one :)
21:33:38 <skvidal> there is no 'reset pass' it is 'remind'
21:33:44 <smooge> your random password is 3.
21:34:04 <CodeBlock> http://xkcd.com/221/
21:34:05 <CodeBlock> :)
21:34:06 <skvidal> we used a fair 20sided die
21:34:14 <nirik> right. yeah
21:34:50 * skvidal rolls 20s, everytime
21:35:19 <nirik> ok, anyone have anything else?
21:35:23 <nirik> or shall we call it a meeting?
21:35:38 * CodeBlock has nothing... will have an update next week about search stuff
21:36:11 <nirik> cool.
21:36:15 <nirik> thanks for coming everyone!
21:36:18 <nirik> #endmeeting
Only remaining issues are with websites folks; shaiton will be following
up with sijis and ricky to see if either of them have alpha stuff hiding
in their fp.o repos, will track down by tomorrow. Otherwise, will open
up a staging alpha site, nirik said he will watch for a request if it's
needed.
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#fedora-meeting: F17 Alpha Readiness Meeting
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:00:09 UTC. The full logs are
available at
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Meeting summary
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* Who's here? (rbergeron, 20:00:25)
* rbergeron here for marketing, program management (rbergeron,
20:00:37)
* also cookies (rbergeron, 20:00:40)
* mizmo here for design, nirik here for infra, noriko here for trans,
cwickert for ambassadors (rbergeron, 20:02:13)
* spot is here for my moral support, err... for engineering purposes
and awesomeness (rbergeron, 20:03:20)
* bcotton here for docs, smooge is here for being awesome (rbergeron,
20:03:37)
* Purpose of this meeting (rbergeron, 20:03:44)
* spot here for the cookies (spot, 20:04:11)
* Purpose of this meeting is to bring together the different teams
involved in the Alpha release and make sure we all have our ducks in
a row, and coordinate any cross-team coordinating that needs to
happen (rbergeron, 20:04:14)
* dgilmore here for releng (rbergeron, 20:04:31)
* Marketing (rbergeron, 20:04:47)
* Marketing is relatively kosher (rbergeron, 20:05:19)
* ACTION: rbergeron to get properly-formatted release announcement to
dgilmore (rbergeron, 20:07:09)
* ACTION: rbergeron to document who sends which announcements on top
of each announcement wiki page (rbergeron, 20:07:40)
* Infrastructure (rbergeron, 20:08:23)
* Translations (rbergeron, 20:09:30)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Shaiton/trans#Cleaning_transifex.net_fe…
(noriko, 20:12:38)
* Docs (rbergeron, 20:19:08)
* Ambassadors (rbergeron, 20:22:19)
* Design (rbergeron, 20:26:20)
* Rel-eng (rbergeron, 20:27:44)
* Websites (rbergeron, 20:34:08)
* ACTION: shaiton to follow up with sijis, ricky on state of alpha in
websites, is there anything in their personal repos? (rbergeron,
20:38:37)
* ACTION: nirik to watch out for staging alpha request from websites
(rbergeron, 20:38:56)
* Did I miss anyone? (rbergeron, 20:40:26)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796419 is perhaps
the issue? (nirik, 20:43:41)
Meeting ended at 20:45:15 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* rbergeron to get properly-formatted release announcement to dgilmore
* rbergeron to document who sends which announcements on top of each
announcement wiki page
* shaiton to follow up with sijis, ricky on state of alpha in websites,
is there anything in their personal repos?
* nirik to watch out for staging alpha request from websites
Action Items, by person
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* dgilmore
* rbergeron to get properly-formatted release announcement to dgilmore
* nirik
* nirik to watch out for staging alpha request from websites
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to get properly-formatted release announcement to dgilmore
* rbergeron to document who sends which announcements on top of each
announcement wiki page
* shaiton
* shaiton to follow up with sijis, ricky on state of alpha in
websites, is there anything in their personal repos?
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* rbergeron (104)
* nirik (20)
* dgilmore (18)
* noriko (14)
* shaiton (13)
* spot (7)
* cwickert (6)
* bcotton (4)
* zodbot (4)
* mizmo (2)
* smooge (1)
* jsmith (1)
* CodeBlock (1)
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 18:29:55 UTC. The full logs are
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Meeting summary
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* Announcements and Agenda (rbergeron, 18:34:06)
* F17 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting is today, 2012-02-22, at 22:00 UTC (17:00
EST) in #fedora-meeting (rbergeron, 18:34:23)
* F17 Alpha Readiness Meeting is TOMORROW, 2012-02-23, at 20:00 UTC
(15:00 EST) in #fedora-meeting (rbergeron, 18:34:26)
* Fedora Engineering "Open House" IRC Meeting is also tomorrow, at
18:00 UTC (13:00 EST) in #fedora-meeting (rbergeron, 18:34:29)
* For more info on the Open House, read
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2012-February/01135…
(rbergeron, 18:34:32)
* Agenda for today includes: Open Q&A Session, Review and possible
adoption of draft trademark guidelines, (rbergeron, 18:34:41)
* Review of Board Member Rex Dieter's personal project goals, and a
handful of Board Tickets, time permitting. (rbergeron, 18:34:44)
* Ticket #134: User of Fedora Logo in Boxes (rbergeron, 18:34:47)
[Secretary's note: We didn't get to any agenda items beyond this point due
to lack of time]
* Ticket #133: Fedora LTS and a single rapid release proposal
(rbergeron, 18:34:49)
* Ticket #130: Make the board less of a single point of failure
(rbergeron, 18:34:52)
* Present: rbergeron, abadger1999, jds2001, jreznik_, ke4qqq,
cwickert, rudi, rdieter (rbergeron, 18:35:44)
* Regrets: peter robinson (rbergeron, 18:36:02)
* Not here yet: gomix (rbergeron, 18:36:43)
* Open Q & A (rbergeron, 18:37:07)
[Secretary's note: We talked about
* Board's role as an advisor to the Project as a whole: No decisions or
action items came out of this. Probably should get a ticket open for the
Board to create a definite decision
* respins and revisor
** These action items came out of it:
* ACTION: cwickert to create correspondingsource package lists for
respins (cwickert, 19:07:07)
* ACTION: Southern_Gentlem to ask infrastructure how to make the SRPMs
of respins available (cwickert, 19:07:29)
** revisor is not currently seeing development. pungi and livecd-tools are
currently working and supported
]
* Review of Trademark Guidelines Draft and possible approval
(rbergeron, 19:09:47)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pchestek/TMGuidelinesDraft
(rbergeron, 19:10:12)
* ambassador giveaways section has requested changes to it
(rbergeron, 19:11:48)
* LINK: http://www.ivanhoffman.com/naked.html (jds2001, 19:20:37)
* ACTION: ke4qqq will ask legal whether the new ambassadors portion of
the policy attempts to protect the trademark or merely make tracking
of something for legal easier (abadger1999, 19:38:47)
* ACTION: ke4qqq to summarize questions and answers about the policy
for interested parties to read. (abadger1999, 19:44:39)
* AGREED: approval of TM guidelines will wait another week pending
responses to questions and possible proposed changes (rbergeron,
19:45:24)
* Ticket #134 use of fedora logo in Boxes (rbergeron, 19:46:05)
* LINK:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Promotional_events
(inode0, 19:53:08)
* ACTION: ke4qqq to respond to ticket/email indicating permission
granted (rbergeron, 20:02:12)
* Other tickets postponed until next meeting or otherwise indicated.
(rbergeron, 20:03:28)
Meeting ended at 20:03:30 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* cwickert to create correspondingsource package lists for respins
* Southern_Gentlem to ask infrastructure how to make the SRPMs of
respins available
* ke4qqq will ask legal whether the new ambassadors portion of the
policy attempts to protect the trademark or merely make tracking of
something for legal easier
* ke4qqq to summarize questions and answers about the policy for
interested parties to read.
* ke4qqq to respond to ticket/email indicating permission granted
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* cwickert
* cwickert to create correspondingsource package lists for respins
* ke4qqq
* ke4qqq will ask legal whether the new ambassadors portion of the
policy attempts to protect the trademark or merely make tracking of
something for legal easier
* ke4qqq to summarize questions and answers about the policy for
interested parties to read.
* ke4qqq to respond to ticket/email indicating permission granted
* Southern_Gentlem
* Southern_Gentlem to ask infrastructure how to make the SRPMs of
respins available
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
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