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Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2009-07-08

Participants: kinger (Brian King), silfreed (Doug Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Community participants: [none]
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • wiki upgrade is almost complete; need Mic's help w/ part of the upgrade
  • 1st-level roadmap items are being reduced; moved on to looking at extension upgrade wizard
  • need to revise roadmap since level 1 is almost complete

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • Mic has been taking over Gerry's duties and applying security updates and working on our staging server in prep of upgrading the prod server
  • next big tasks is upgrading the production machine to lastest FreeBSD
  • will require some downtime; coordinated w/ Doug

Firefox 3.5 Release

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2009-04-21

Participants: gjm (Gerry Murphy), kinger (Brian King), silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • been working on making edit-in-place (bug#20466) more robust recently (handle more error cases, adding tests)
  • some project support on-and-off
  • would like to get bug#20805 ironed out soonish - should be fixed by tomorrow
  • drupal upgrade would be good; need to look into how to port our authentication module and our install profile

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • stats and VM work, freebsd 6 -< 7 upgrade
  • stats are currently being updated to produce per-county visitor totals and some data to produce the top 50 list; this should make it easy to do per-project stats later
  • OSUOSL VM is running; hitting memory limits running stats
  • trying to build a custom awstats config to reduce memory consumption
  • vebzom.org has been upgraded from FreeBSD 6.1 to 7.1; upgrading production will require downtime

Server migration

  • resurface old proposal and rehash on list

Next meeting April 28, 2009 @ 14:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2009-01-20

Participants: kinger (Brian King), silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • continuing research into top roadmap items this week such as working on the nss/pam-mysql integration and looking at making editing in Drupal easier
  • we should also look into creating a web-based editor for our in-house HTML

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • no updates

Server migration

  • no updates

Next meeting January 27, 2009 @ 16:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2009.01.06

Participants: kinger (Brian King), silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • should try to figure out when md5 support for updateHash was dropped from FF3
  • project creation automation is definitely decreasing the wait-time for new projects; biggest delay now is the moderation of the new-projects list

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • no updates

Server migration

  • mozdev-stats VM appears to be up; need to check on status

Next meeting January 13, 2009 @ 16:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-12-09

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), Brian King (kinger), silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • I have automated project creation working on vebzom right now, I'll need some help setting up some stuff on mozdev soon
  • Need to work out some UI parts for project creation (asking for usernames, sending project activation emails) and it should be ready to deploy
  • new tool will automate many of the steps done manually right now (cvs, web, maillist, and newsgroup creation, tracking project responses, provide a checklist for tasks left to setup)

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • needed to block several IPs this week due to "interesting" traffic
  • max web servers was also reduced to limit impact on the rest of the server when traffic spikes hit

Server migration

  • mozdev-stats VM needs an fsck; I'll email support at osuosl to see how they handle these types of problems
  • gjm will look at the VM after the meeting before we contact osuosl

Next meeting December 16, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-12-02

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • some work on running project creation scripts from a cron job using sudo to reduce privileges needed when creating projects
  • spending most of my time writing tests for the project creation process right now

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • starting testing upgrades to FreeBSD 7
  • php 4 is gone from vebzom and other things will be moving around

Server migration

  • mirror composition is broken on new VM; Doug will look into it
  • otherwise, mirror services should be ready to migrate
  • should be doable to get all services off of the staging server by feb 2009
  • no immediate plans for migrating off the amazon VM, but should be possible as well
  • gjm will look at running the daily processing on the new VM to see how it goes
  • archived logs are ~110GB compressed; need some other storage location for that (probably staging machine w/ upgraded disks)
  • Doug will check up with the community giving process to see if they need any additional info
  • current plan is to get the staging server out of the current colo by early 2009 to get it upgraded and move archived log files from amazon VM to it

Next meeting December 09, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-11-25

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • pending project admin page is functioning well as a way to keep track of pending projects' statuses (new, received response, approved, etd) and missing features (bugzilla, cvs, maillist, etc)
  • security improvements required writing log replay and analysis tools; now going through the process of reviewing logs and fixing problems

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • no updates

Server migration

  • new VM at OSUOSL has had mirror content migrated and should be ready to move the last production service off our staging server

Next meeting December 2nd, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-09-23

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy) silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Board pages

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • working on pending project email responses and template responses

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • server rebooted on 19th
  • clamav and HG didn't come back up properly after the reboot
  • emails to AOL currently being blocked; research into that

Server migration

  • pricing on remote PDUs and remote consoles sent to sysadmin@ last week

Next meeting September 30th, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-09-16

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy) silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • currently working on pending project emails and email templates/responses

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • project support
  • hardware pricing
  • limited time to get VM setup so far

Server migration

  • some hardware pricing researched for rack essentials
  • no updates from community giving
  • staging server can't move until VM is up at OSUOSL

Next meeting September 23rd, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-09-09

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy) silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • so far this week: got downloads.mozdev.org to not rely on the cvs tree
  • got back into working on pending projects; should be implementing the email response handling soon, then working on email template responses

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • OSUOSL VM is online

Server migration

  • got downloads.mozdev.org to not rely on the cvs tree; should be ready to try onnew OSUOSL VM
  • researching hardware prices for server upgrade and rack prep
  • emailed mrz to find out what hardware he recommends for router, remote admin
  • we need to determine what features we need from a router/firewall
  • need to determine if remote KVM is necessary or just remote console
  • mrz said they're out of power until ~November
  • cost of remote power/admin could be significant; we should research what the options are and then discuss if we need to get them later when we put production hardware in place

Next meeting September 16th, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-09-02

Minutes from mozdev sysadmin meeting on Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy) silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: JesperHansen, KaiRo

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • Mozdev 8th birthday theme needs worked on; disabling for now
  • Drupal maintenance to get done today

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • phpmyadmin setup; needs additional configuration and lockdown

Server migration

  • sethb said to resend our request to him to be safe, but he's just been busy andhasn't gotten to them
  • haven't looked into hardware prices yet for staging server or other rack hardware needed
  • KaiRo said SeaMonkey was donated 2 VMs from Mozilla

Cleanup Mozdev CSS

Next meeting September 9th, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-08-26

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy) silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: JesperHansen, Ocra

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • ericjung noted problems uploading to his /beta/ folder on his website - acknowledged, but no workaround/insight into this problem yet

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • project owner support and minor software updates

Server migration

  • still working with OSUOSL on getting VM there setup
  • need to get a list of what hardware is needed to get the rack functional and upgrade the staging machine to keep it running

PHPMyAdmin Installation

  • need to look into how to get it configured from FreeBSD's ports and integrated into our apache setup

Next meeting September 2nd, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-08-19

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), kinger (Brian King), silfreed (DougWarner)
Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • no updates

Server migration

  • no updates on community program
  • current plan for dev server is for it to remain in the same role w/ minor hardware upgrades

Next meeting August 26th, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-08-12

Participants: gjm (Gerry Murphy), kinger (Brian King), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • see status report
  • plans to upgrade to Drupal v6? not currently; it would be a good bit of work totest all the modules and upgrade our install profile (our module should be fairly easy to update)

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • stability testing of new email setup/virus scanner upgrades on staging server
  • support on a project's mailing list

Server migration

  • sent email to SethB at Mozilla Community Program to see if we would be eligible for hardware under the program

downloads.mozdev.org

  • OSUOSL might be interested in the mirroring code

Next meeting August 19th, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2008-08-05

Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: JesperHansen

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • Moved project adoption request for surfkeys forward
  • Backend work for pending projects
  • Fixed bug that caused unreleased files to not be removed from update.rdf
  • Fixed bug caused by fixing bug#19636 (above) that broke updating download files
  • I plan on continue working on project automation this week while trying to keep some of the momentum from the summit and move mozilla-related projects forward

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • mostly quiet; some bz support and file perms fixes
  • virus scanning process is updated; moving new versions through staging before moving into production

Server migration

  • mozilla has space available, not disk space for VMs
  • should look into upgrading the existing staging server and shipping it to Mozilla
  • should look into the Mozilla Community Giving project to see if they can help with new hardware

Mozdev OSCON & Mozilla Summit review

  • Excluding from minutes since it's been covered in other blog posts recently

Next meeting August 12th, 2008 @ 15:00 UTC in #mozdev

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