Sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-01-29

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

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

  • Mozdev source code should be publically available now in hovercraft/sandbox/php
  • admin tools are updated to work with PHP upgrade
  • project search interface is almost complete; see http://www.mozdev.org/projects/search.html
  • starting to track what applications are supported by projects this week

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • PHP on mozdev.org was updated from 4.4.7 to 4.4.8
  • Bugzilla now supports UTF8 properly; there were some problems with migrating the data and will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis
  • CVS hiccup this week that caused the cvs server to max out the CPU
  • TWS is no longer authoritative for mozdev.org DNS
  • some private lists were publically available via /mailarchives/
  • quick way of putting the site in maintenance mode was implemented for the downtime this week

Staging server migration

  • strg.at has started making plans for hardware/hosting/VMs
  • OSUOSL is offering VMs, but doesn't have much disk space currently so that offering is currently on hold
  • nothing definitive about using mozilla for hosting yet
  • vebzom.org is still giving disk errors; the /mozdev/ partition may be on its way out
  • will need to migrate mirror service off the vebzom server

Dealing with newsgroups

  • gjm is looking into project and newsgroup creation; should have more info soon

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