Sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-19

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

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • sick last week; didn't get a lot of stuff done
  • mostly spent time fixing minor bugs with the new application/extension parsing
  • started working on interface for managing download files (allowing public releases, verifying hashes) to get ready for secure installations
  • for site reorganization I'm going to be working on getting a list of content put together in the wiki to see how it could be organized
  • trying to figure out how to relieve some load from D.MD.o; best I can think of doing is disabling the new download tracking
  • possibly disable the download tracking when server is over some specified threshold? possibly; will need to investigate

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • gjm was ill last week
  • tanker helped fix permissions on project

Firefox 3 release

  • looking for ideas to get our server through the update cycle that goes along with a release
  • disable services dynamically under load
  • offload some services to vebzom.org
  • migrate postfix/mailman/bugzilla to another server
  • looking up an IP's mirror is a heavy operation; silfreed might look into caching these results
  • we need a better understanding of how much a user hits our site when performing updates; silfreed will analyze log files

Mailman defaults

  • we'll change the defaults for new lists and point people to the wiki page if they need to reduce their list management time

Staging server migration

  • proposal still needs typed
  • OSUOSL admins say it would be possible to have a second [physical] machine hosted there

Dealing with newsgroups

  • gjm worked with Pete to get newsgroup creation scripted, tested, and ready to integrate with project creation scripts. still needs implemented

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