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Sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-12

Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • project searching now searches words 3 characters and more (so searches on things like 'rss' or 'moz' work now)
  • we're automatically parsing extensions and pulling extension information and supported application information
  • the application list with descriptions, icons, and links to home pages is live
  • the list of extensions per application is live; still needs some work to enable features such as the "latest version"
  • project searching now includes applications and extensions
  • will be spending some time soon thinking about the redesign and how to make finding things on our site easier

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • more research into the CVS mysql auth patch - it's going to be incredibly difficult to port this to a more recent CVS so that we could add additional features to it
  • we will be investigating using pam_mysql/nss_mysql to manage CVS permissions on the filesystem instead
  • pam_mysql will make implementing other services easier as well (ftp, ssh, VCSes)
  • 15m downtime on Friday due to a spike in the server load caused by firefox release
  • spam scanning has been improved to use in-memory partition for parsing messages (increases throughput)
  • spam scanning has been stricter and is now blocking ~800k dailing (up from ~140k)
  • web log analysis is moving faster; a caching DNS server was installed to reduce DNS latency
  • firewall config was updated to allow more connections
  • apache2/php5 update has been on hold; Doug says PHP code should be ready and will need more testers soon

Mailman defaults

  • less spam should help a bit, but no new updates
  • we should document the changes we are looking to change in the wiki so that we can point people there when they have questions

Staging server migration

  • plan is still in the works; needs typed up an emailed out

Dealing with newsgroups

  • no updates

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