Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Discussed developer priorities
- project overview page/secure installs was generally well-received
- several minor bugs in file management, presentation, and extension parsing were handled quickly
- working on a tagging policy to help project owners know what to expect to be approved: http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/MozdevProjectTagging
- improved download counters offered by mozdev
- setup web-visible cache directory on the staging server w/ info for migration to production
- work on update.rdf generation is going well; script to generate files is mostly complete; need to add 'update info' url to file management and test the resulting update.rdf files; this will require the web-visible cache directory setup to finish
- should be starting on subversion setup plan this week and filing bugs using email I sent earlier to sysadmin@ as a base
- visiting family this weekend; offline Friday
Discussed sysadmin priorities
- nginx has been in production for about a week and has been handling load from updates fine
- web stats are currently broken (since the 25th) due to nginx setup and apache2/php5 update
- apache2/php5 is being setup in production today
- backups have not been occuring (reason isn't known yet); gjm is working w/ osuosl to get them working again
Firefox updates server load handling
- update was handled well; there were several spikes in bandwidth/requests but they were handled by nginx
- silfreed/gjm will continue to work on improving nginx setup by serving more files, but the solution worked incredibly well
- some projects get lots of 404 hits for their update.rdf requests; gjm will make a list of projects and silfreed will contact POs to make sure they're aware their users don't have an upgrade path
Staging server migration
- mozilla has said "yes" to 2U rack space and probably a VM
- osuosl is having disk capacity problems so a VM isn't immediately available
- first plans for for VM (hopefully from OSUOSL) is moving download master
- separating email and web traffic would probably be the next step
- figuring out how to split projects up across servers would also be useful from a security viewpoint (split mozdev.org projects from hosted projects)
- we'll still need to ask TWS to ship our server when we decide where its going (Mozilla or retirement)