Sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-08

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

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • testing apache 2.2/php 5 changes
  • created project tagging policy/docs
  • started update.rdf generation for secure updates
  • started setting up test suite for mozdev.org code
  • this week is planned to be: finish up the hg setup plan (in progress), start working on hg, and try to get some sysadmin time to close some bugs (apache 2.2 rewrite bugs, web-visible cache directory setup)
  • asked about working on mercurial before svn; davidwboswell says an update to the roadmap is coming soon

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • apache 2.2 and php 5 upgrade is complete; working on ironing out some bugs
  • https is being setup and tested

Firefox updates server load handling

  • no updates

Staging server migration

  • no news on VMs
  • server move should be highest priority now that apache/php setup is done

Other projects

  • if staging server setup drags on too long, sysadmin might move on to cvs perms with pam auth
  • project creation automation would be a good item to work on as well
  • openid would be a nice authentication mechanism for users; integrating this with other auth mechanisms isn't understood well right now

Code testing

  • mostly just unit tests now that PHP 5 is avaialble (PHP 4 couldn't do mock objects which was very limiting)
  • Doug will be writing some tests to verify certain web paths are working correctly
  • not really focused on full integration testing or continuous integration right now (the entire web stack isn't in version control, so we can't know when changes are made)

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