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Sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-18

Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm_home (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • spring theme is updated
  • the project overview page is mostly complete; just trying to get POs to help with testing
  • started looking into subversion and mercurial configuration
  • will be focusing on testing nginx to help get it deployed soon
  • will get web-visible save directory setup soon

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • started filtering spam bots on production; blocking bots after 10 spam/week
  • project creation scripts were updated to force lowercase names
  • nginx is setup on the staging server; performs much better for serving static content than apache

Automated testing of Mozdev.org

  • could be doable w/ Selenium
  • would be neat to get the community to suggest/create tests for mozdev.org
  • Doug will file a bug

Firefox updates server load handling

  • covered in developer/sysadmin updates

Staging server migration

  • no updates

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