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Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-09-18

Posted on Tue, 2007/09/18 - 11:29, by dwarner

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

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities (drupal testing, linking to drupal, rollout...)

  • Publish tool is working again

Discussed sysadmin priorities (stats, mirror improvements, mailman defaults...)

  • top50.pl page is fixed; Doug should be able to work on the front-end page
    now

Requests from users

clean out project's (pagemark) repository:
Mic cleared the web directory during the meeting
Doug will restore the templates
wrong MIME types on mirrors:
no response from mirror admins
Doug is going to find some better contacts for the mirrors
the mirrors should probably be suspended/removed from rotation if they
don't reply soon
Doug has been looking into Bouncer; will probably test it out soon

Handling user requests through bugzilla

  • Delayed until BZ 3.0 upgrade

Turning off wordpress (review categories found)

  • The following categories were found:
    Mozdev:
    Development
    Status
    Projects:
    Announcements
    Features
    Status Updates
  • should be safe to remove now

Turning off other tools

  • Not sure what xpcomdb does; Doug will check with Pete.
  • analog, polls: old content should be archived.
  • Doctor might be nice to have for users to edit their web pages from the web; David will add it to the roadmap; Doug will file a bug.
  • Not sure how widely-used the other tools were; Doug will ask Pete.

    • What to do about protected directory issues?

    • cvsweb upgrade will remove the directory from the list
    • work-around is to disable guest checkouts for projects that request it with the knowledge that it's a temporary workaround until cvs can be patched to disable guest checkouts of the protected directory.
    • David and Doug will work together to email the project owners who have asked about the problem directly.

    Should we block entire projects to protect mozdev sql structure (www/www, hovercraft)?

    • No; it goes against the open-source ideaologies.

    Promoting/Integrating McCoy for secure installs and updates?

    • Link to the tool from templates.
    • Help out with documentation where possible.

    Move up priority of bugzilla 3.0 upgrade?

    • Mic has done this on vebzom.org once before; upgrade should be easy.
    • No one opposed to increasing the priority.
    • Chris notes that BZ 3.0 will need some theme adjustments.

    Mic noted that strg.at will be hiring another sysadmin soon; that will hopefully free up some sysadmin time for mozdev.

    Drupal update

    • project owner response has been fairly lack-luster.
    • need to work on how to link from projects.
    • need to work on rollout proceedure.