Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-16

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

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Vebzom.org DNS is broken

  • Mic trying to get in contact with Andy about zoneedit.com access.
  • Current IP is 167.206.76.23 if anyone needs access (like Doug).
  • David can also change DNS servers in the registrar
  • changing DNS servers from zoneedit.com to strg.at
  • Someone should also notify Andy that the zoneedit.com account can be disabled.

Discussed developer priorities

  • Drupal deployed
  • Browseable downloads.mozdev.org deployed
  • For DMO, should we ignore projects w/ only a README.downloads or empty downloads directory? - Probably would clean up the list
  • For DMO, should we list unpublished projects (they're currently mirrored)? - unpublished projects probably have empty download dirs as well; not really a problem that they're on the mirrors.
  • MySQL errors were a problem on vebzom.org, not production. fixed.
  • Removed broken mirrors
  • New mirror-up-check script deployed
  • working on Drupal documentation
  • Where should we start using Drupal? - Move docs into the wiki
  • bugzilla 3.0 themed on vebzom.org - should we enable the quick links on the top of the page (login, new, search, etc)? - should probably match mozilla.org's as close as possible, so let it in. Should also try to make the site feel more mozdev-y.
  • Setting up Drupal users with "Site Admin" for www (change config, add/remove drupal sites); Added David and Doug for now.

Discussed sysadmin priorities

  • Fixed security holes in libpng and ImageMagick - the ImageMagick upgrade was fairly difficult
  • PHP4 security hole is still present; still waiting on FreeBSD port
  • Apache 1.3 + PHP4 -> Apache 2.2 + PHP5 upgrade is becoming an increasing priority
  • syncing mozdev.org and vebzom.org is still pending

Dealing with ownerless mail lists

  • Should we do this instead of removing lists? What are the implications?
  • there are lots of held messages (>110k, 105k are 30+ days old)
  • could this be the cause of slow mail servers from 08-ish PDT for 3-4 hours?
  • The daily the held message nags might be the cause of our slow email problems; Mic will look into this to determine if that's the case.
  • People should review bug#17667 and make suggestions.