While I've owned (and will continue to own) silfreed.net for about 9 years now, I think it's time I reasses my online personality.
"silfreed" will probably be a part of me for a long time, but more and more in online and open source circles I'd like people to … read moreOther articles
7 Things Meme
CPOSC Pictures
CPOSC Slides
Here are my slides for the talk I did at CPOSC 2008. The title of my talk was Architecting a Community: How Mozdev Runs and Grows and had the unfortunate conflict with the Git Sucks talk which drew in almost all the attendees.
The event was great and I'm glad …
read moreSpeaking at CPOSC in October
OSCON Day 3 and Mozilla Summit Trip photos
Some more photos (end of OSCON, trip on the way through Vancouver to Whistler for moz08).
- Last day of OSCON - Pre-moz08 stop in Seattle on the way to Vancouver - Pre-moz08 trip to Vancouver; border crossing - Pre-moz08 first night in Vancouver - Pre-moz08 day in Vancouver - Moz08 trip to Whistler from Vancouver … read moreThanks for Moz08!
OSCON 2008 Session Day 2 for Mozdev
My second day at OSCON was also terrific. I continued to meet new people and got to spend more time talking with others. There were two sessions that I wanted to see, and they were:
- Integration Testing PHP Applications - this was a little more overview that I had hoped, but … read moreOSCON 2008 Session Day 1 for Mozdev
Big day at OSCON today. I got into town at 01:00 this morning and taking the cab to the hotel wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (but more expensive than I had planned).
I was able to get a hold of and meet Brian King and … read moreMercurial at Mozdev
We're happy to announce the availability of Mercurial for hosting project sources at Mozdev.
Documentation can be found here:
http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/MozdevMercurial
The biggest caveats: - CVS is still necessary for maintaining the website and downloads (fixing this is on our roadmap) - Projects' source information page needs … read moreUpcoming OSCON/Firefox Summit trip for Mozdev
In 8 days (next Tuesday) I'll be heading to Portland for OSCON 2008. Several days later I'll be heading up to Canada for the Firefox Summit.
This is simultaneously awesome and scary. Awesome parts: - Meeting my colleagues and board members from Mozdev for the first time - Being able to attend … read moreMozdev status updates and meeting minutes moved
I'm going to be doing my Mozdev status updates and sysadmin meeting minutes over on the Mozdev blog now (rss feed). Hopefully this will be picked up by PMO soon.
read moreVersion controlling my home dir
For awhile now I've noticed that things in my home dir aren't setup optimally for my work flow. I've been trying to run with SELinux enabled and I run into development problems when I try to run web applications out of my home directory. Various parts of my home directory …
read moreMozdev status update for W27-2008
- Fixed bug with tools styling of Summer theme
- Setup FCKeditor with mediawiki plugin (bug#18975) - I was able to get the fckeditor plugin for Drupal modified to load the mediawiki plugin only for the wiki content type; the patch for the plugin still needs some work and the mediawiki plugin …
Mercurial at Mozdev (soon)
We've been working on getting Mercurial ready to use at Mozdev for awhile now; it turns out there's a lot to do to offer a new VCS for a hosting provider that's only offered CVS for 7 years:
- Write admin interfaces for selecting a project's repository and setting up new … read moreMozdev's Role in the Add-On world
Mozdev has long offered free source hosting, but along with that we offer a number of other features that are important to extension developers such as mirroring and distribution and secure installations and updates.
Mozdev has been working hard to try to prepare for the Firefox 3 release. We were … read moreReflecting on my first year at Mozdev
I've been at Mozdev for a full year now. This was a big step for me personally as well as for Mozdev; there was lots of trepidation from both parties, for a number of reasons:
- I was Mozdev's first full-time employee (and without a formal office, all interviews were over … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-07-01
Participants: davidwboswell, (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: JesperHansen
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - working on WYSIWYG for Mozdev wiki - planning on using mediawiki syntax with FCKeditor (noticed DevMo is switching to DekiWiki) - at ccaygill's prompting (and patch) updated the local.conf … read moreMozdev status update for W26-2008
Semi-busy week with not much to show for it:
- Working on providing a GUI for Mozdev's wiki - For now I think I've settled on using MediaWiki syntax and using FCKeditor. The Drupal module for FCKeditor needs some improvements to support to load different toolbars for different content types (so we … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-06-24
Participants: gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: ccaygill
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - finished new bugzilla bug entry form - helped with Firefox 3 server load (adding additional caches, mostly) - fixed XPI sorting on project overview page - working on improving wiki formatting at Mozdev - investigating … read moreMozdev status update for W25-2008
Getting back into the swing of things after vacation.
- Updating Mozdev bugzilla bug entry form - this is ready to go into production to help making requests to Mozdev easier - Handling Firefox 3 release server load - the Firefox 3 release caused lots of additional web traffic to mozdev.org in a … read moreUse GUI HTML editors for editing wiki content
We're looking to improve the experience of editing pages in our Wiki, and I'm wondering if we should just ditch "wiki" syntax and just support HTML and use a nice in-browser HTML editor.
It should be easy for us to continue to support CamelCase and square brackets to link to … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-06-17
Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: ccaygill
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - finished up changes to simpler bug entry form - increased timeout on new Mozdev pages that require login (file managment, project tag editing) - wrote Mercurial documentation for Mozdev - Firefox … read moreMozdev status update for W24-2008
Short week last week due to vacation.
- Working on streamlined Mozdev bug-entry form to help with submitting VCS change requests (and other requests) - Increased idle timeout on new Mozdev tools - Writing documentation for requesting and using Mercurial at Mozdev We're expecting Mercurial to be released soon at Mozdev; we'll be … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-06-10
Minutes from mozdev sysadmin meeting on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)Community participants: ccaygill, JesperHansen
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - added a new mirror for zurich/switzerland - documented some module settings that caused problems … read moreMozdev status update for W23-2008
- New mirror for Zurich/Switzerland
- Documented Drupal subscription module dependency on comments module (discovered from user problems)
- Setup ad system for tracking stats for sponsor banners
- Updating VCS log page to support multiple VCSes and updating template source.html page to have links for other VCS types.
- Updated hgweb to …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-06-03
Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: JesperHansen, djc
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - OSCon/Firefox Summit planning - Styling hgweb (still needs some work) - Sponsor work - Songbird page is now live - new Multi-VCS log RSS feed - lots of unit test improvements … read moreMozdev status update for W22-2008
- OSCon/Firefox Summit planning - got my flights booked and applied for my passport
- Styling hgweb - I'm trying to get our hgweb instance styled better but am running into problems modifying Mercurial themes (maps)
- Sponsor work
- New VCS log RSS feed - This one now works with CVS, Mercurial, and eventually SVN …
Mozdev status update W21-2008, sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-05-27
Participating: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - improved bugzilla Mac OS X detection by adding more versions to OS list - worked with ccaygill of Mycroft to get HTTP header problem fixed that prevented downloads in … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-05-20
Minutes from mozdev sysadmin meeting on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Present: cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner) Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - sponsor work - fixed bugs in update.rdf generation - documenting move of hg to production - testing multiple-domain ssl certs … read moreMozdev status update W20-2008
- Work on sponsor pages
- Fixed bugs in update.rdf generation
- Documenting how to move hg to production
- Testing multiple-domain SSL certificates - Found out that certificates with multiple domains (specified in the Subject Alternate Name, SAN field) works with most current browsers, mercurial, and SVN and does not require additional IPs …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-05-13
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - setup mercurial commit logging last week - upgraded (staging) mercurial to 1.0 - not much other mercurial work accomplished - updated external links in the mozdev.org header - released the … read moreMozdev status update W19-2008
- Call for hg testers - several project owners stepped up and said they'd test things out. I haven't heard any reports yet on how things work.
- Setup commit logging - Updated my svn2mysql tool to vcslog2mysql to work with mercurial as well. Other tools that rely on the cvslog need to be …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-05-06
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - hg testing released; two projects have asked for testing repos already - secure update.rdf generation released; there's been some additional interest on the list, but no direct questions - sent policy update … read moreMozdev status update for W18-2008
I ended up spending a large part of last week fixing some architectural problems I created with the ProjectVCS/VCS classes and debugging some test cases, but overall the admin page for selecting a project's current VCS and initializing a repository is ready (announcement coming soon asking for beta testers …
read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-29
Present: cdn-work (Chris Neale), davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community present: ccaygill, djc, JesperHansen
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - worked on the backend for choosing VCS and initializing mercurial - didn't get much time to work on the admin interface … read moreMozdev status update W17-2008
- Working on admin interface for new VCS' (bug#18960, bug#18958)
- Cleaned up spam comments from recent spam attack
- Disabled several forms that could be used for spamming
- Researching proper mime type for .rdf files - Determined that application/rdf+xml is the proper mime type for update.rdf and install …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-22
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner), djc (autocopy extension owner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - spam attack last week has been cleaned up; old notes system is currently disabled - mercurial is setup on staging at hg.vebzom.org; authentication … read moreMozdev status update W16-2008
Much of last week was spent getting a test web interface setup for Mercurial. We also had a spam attack on our old notes system that required us to disable the script shortly after it was re-enabled. We're still trying to cleanup from that problem but it should be resolved …
read moreUsing mod_auth_mysql for Apache authentication for serving Mercurial
I'm trying to hgwebdir.cgi setup and that part is going pretty well; I have a default config file that is being loaded by the script and serving a collection of repositories properly.
What I'm having problems with is configuring authentication. I'm using mod_auth_mysql to try to do authentication under … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-15
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - got mercurial plan together; started getting mercurial setup on vebzom - deployed update.rdf generation, but need some testers - various bug triaging - we have some mod_rewrite bugs still lingering … read moreMozdev status update W15-2008
- Triaging various site bugs after Apache 2.2/PHP 5 upgrade
- Putting together Mercurial setup plan
- Test suite improvements - testing various web pages on mozdev.org
- Moved secure update.rdf generation to production for testing - Thanks to bug#18732 being moved to production I was also able to get the …
XUL extension parsing
XUL extensions are constructed very simply. Documentation on how they are constructed is excellent.
At Mozdev.org we have been focused recently on helping users find projects more easily as well as preparing for the upcoming Firefox 3 release by creating tools for our projects to perform secure installs and … read moreMozdev 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 … read moreMozdev status update W14-2008
Last week was mostly monopolized by testing/debugging after our Apache 2.2 and PHP 5 upgrade. There's still some bugs to iron out, but it appears that the main site and most project sites are running well.
Other tasks include: - Creating project tagging policy/docs - Generation of update.rdf … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-01
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 … read moreMozdev status update W13-2008
Last week's big event was the launch of secure installs with our project overview page. In only 5 days we already have 27% (119/440) of our extensions registered with our system. Unfortunately we only have 9% of the registered files setup to enable secure downloads (ie, they have verified …
read moreMozdev project overview and secure installations
Mozdev's project overview pages are now live and feature secure installations using InstallTrigger.
{IMG:503x334:/sites/silfreed.net/files/project-overview-cdn.png} Right now we don't have the download graph or the project stats in place, but the main functionality is there: - Project name and description - Project tags - projects are tagged … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-25
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner), ccaygill (MyCroft project)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - about ready to release the secure installation/project overview stuff; been working w/ a PO on testing things; trying to figure out a bug in … read moreMozdev status update W12-2008
- Continued testing of project overview/secure install page
- Testing lightweight web server and PHP accelerator
- Setting up web-visible cache directory for projects
- Fixed bug in Drupal mozdevauth module that displayed an error when editing a user's information in Drupal that was also a Mozdev CVS user
- Fixed the start of …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-18
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm_home (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - spring theme is updated - the project overview page is mostly complete; just trying to get POs to help with testing - started looking into subversion and … read moreMozdev status update W11-2008
- Ensuring the Spring theme works
- Created project overview page with InstallTrigger links - the initial design is done; we're going through a short testing period before we set it up for all projects
- Research subversion and Mercurial configuration for bug#11890
Mozdev project overview update
Reactions to our project overview mockup were very favorable, and I've made good progress this week getting the page setup and much more functional.
Here you can see our very own 'www' project's overview page:{IMAGE:465x231:/sites/silfreed.net/files/mozdev-project-overview-www.png}
As you can easily see, we don't … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-11
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - working on getting a project overview page - this will have links for a project (bugs, source, etc) as well as list some basic information, stats, and downloads for … read moreMozdev status update W10-2008
The biggest topic of the past week has been mitigating load problems on Mozdev's server when Firefox releases an update. We now have a plan in place to reduce the load by using a lightweight web server to handle update requests. We're also going to help out the Mycroft project …
read moreMozdev project overview page
Something Mozdev.org has lacked for awhile now has been a project overview page that shows you a nice overview of a project with links to tools for a project as well as some basic information and stats.
As part of working on secure installations for projects I needed a … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-04
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - working on the UI to allow project owners to verify and release their downloads and extensions - working on mockups for a project overview page that would contain the publicly available downloads … read moreMozdev status update W9-2008
- Integrated extension list and tagged projects for an application
- Reduced server load for D.MD.o - I updated D.MD.o to serve update requests from any random mirror instead of the best mirror. I also improved the query that finds the best mirror to use better indexing which should …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-26
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - skipped; silfreed not present Discussed sysadmin priorities - gjm has written some python classes to deal with mailman configs; this makes it easier to do validation & reconfiguration - defaults for … read moreMozdev status update W8-2008
- Download file registration/release backend
(bug#12486,
bug#17302) -
the UI to allow projects to register and release their download
files is almost complete. This will allow project owners to allow
secure installations of their extensions and generation of
update.rdf files once those features are complete.
There were a …
- Download file registration/release backend
(bug#12486,
bug#17302) -
the UI to allow projects to register and release their download
files is almost complete. This will allow project owners to allow
secure installations of their extensions and generation of
update.rdf files once those features are complete.
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-19
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm_home (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - sick last week; didn't get a lot of stuff done - mostly spent time fixing minor bugs with the new application/extension parsing … read moreMozdev status update for W7-2008
- Finding supported applications automatically is deployed - Mozdev.org now has a list of applications that have extensions hosted with us. We're automatically tagging projects with the application names as well in order to make finding projects for an application (not just extensions) easier.
- Document how to make mailman default config …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-12
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - project searching now searches words 3 characters and more (so searches on things like 'rss' or 'moz' work now) - we're automatically parsing … read moreMozdev Status Update for W6-2008
- Finding supported applications automatically - I have the portion that parses .xpi files' install manifests (install.rdf files) working - it currently tracks what extension an .xpi file is as well as what applications and version ranges it supports. The frontend for displaying the applications Mozdev.org projects support and the extensions …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-05
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - project search interface is live; needs some tweaks and am coordinating with sysadmins - parsing extensions for supported applications is underway; I'll be … read moreMozdev Status Update for W5-2008
- Released Project search interface - There is still a small bug to work out here, but having a search form for finding projects at Mozdev should be a huge help for users trying to find a project.
- Parse supported applications from install.rdf files - I made a lot of progress on …
Mozdev 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 … read moreMozdev Status Update for W4-2008
- Move /sandbox/php into CVS - This moves a large portion of Mozdev's site code into CVS which will allow more eyes to be on the code and allow future site developers easier access to the code for working on the site. The code is kept in the Hovercraft project.
- Upgrade …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-01-22
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - continuing to get mozdev code working with PHP 5.2 - migrating mozdev code into CVS - updated in Hovercraft project now - mozdev code is checked out on vebzom.org … read moreMozdev Status Update for W3-2008
- Project tagging - Project tagging is essentially complete; I need to move on to a search interface to make finding projects easier, but I'm thinking that might be another bug (to be filed).
- Upgrading Mozdev's PHP - Continued work to get Mozdev's code up-to-par with PHP 5.2.
- Migrate Mozdev site code …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-01-15
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser), buanzo
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Mozdev DNS outage - The Web Stop has had a series of outages that affect Mozdev for lengthy periods - the feeling is that TWS can't be used any … read moreMozdev DNS outage
Mozdev.org is currently experiencing a DNS outage due to our one hosting company being offline. We're aware of the problem but currently don't have an ETR. We'll be looking into making DNS available from more hosts in the near future so that problems like this don't cause outages for …
read moreMozdev Status Update for W52-2007 - W2-2008
I've been taking a bit of a break from Mozdev over Christmas, so not as much got accomplished, and I'll be down at FUDCon tomorrow so I figured I'd do my status update early.
- bug#7021 - Project tags - I've added project tagging to Mozdev.org so that projects owners can … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-01-08
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - project tagging is moving along well; the PO interface for editing tags is complete; the user interface for browsing tags (tag cloud and project lists) is complete; the … read moreMozdev Status Update for W51-2007
- bug#7021 - Project Tagging - Getting close to completion for this one - I have the project owner interface for tagging their project completed as well as the profile login/logout area. All that's left is the tag cloud and list of projects per tag for the user-facing pages, and an admin …
Mozdev Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2007-12-18
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - comcast's email block is removed - trying to plan how to move more code into CVS - writing auth, error, database, session, and tagging libraries - the backend for project tagging … read moreMozdev status update for W50-2007
This week I spent a lot of time trying to get a better code library setup for Mozdev code that would be easier to maintain and test (mostly meaning, starting to write stuff in OOP style despite PHP 4's lackings). Towards that end, I've ended up getting session managent, authentication …
read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-12-11
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung) gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Mozdev downtime - no obvious causes for downtime found yet - box was logging up until the server rebooted, so it was still active - suspected hardware problem since the box … read moreMozdev unexpected downtime
Our main mozdev.org server is currently unavailable making all services unavailable (web, CVS, downloads, mailing lists). The problem seems to have started at approx. 22:45 UTC (17:45 EST). We have our colocation provider looking into the problem and will update once more information is known.
Update 21 … read moreMozdev status update for W49-2007
Lots of progress on squashing mirror bugs!
- Redirecting user to their closest mirror - Downloads directly from D.MD.o for recently-updated files - Per-project RSS feed of downloads Other tasks: - Ideas on various bugs - disaster recovery plan, broadcasting system for problems, centralized account management system, profile page for updating email address … read moreNew downloads.mozdev.org features
New features have arrived at downloads.mozdev.org (D.MD.o). I'll just enumerate them to save space:
1. Redirect users to their closest mirror (bug#2807)read moreYou can check your closest mirror (and list of other available mirrors) by visiting the following link: <http://mirrors.mozdev.org/ip-check.html …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-12-04
Present: cdn-work (Chris Neale), davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), kinger (Brian King), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - theme cleanups for mozdev.org w.r.t. http/https - downloads.mozdev.org updates - redirection to closest mirror and serving files directly … read moreMozdev status update for W48-2007
This past weeks activities included:
- Fixed bugs in scripts from bugzilla table move - Created patch for warning new bugzilla users that their email addresses will be public - Staging upgrades to downloads.mozdev.org to serve recently-updated files directly from D.MD.o - Updated blog display on mozdev.org front page … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-11-27
Present: Chris Neale (cdn-work), David Boswell (davidwboswell), Eric Jung (ericjung), Gerry Murphy (gjm), Doug Warner (silfreed)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - drupal tweaks to install profile - helped move bugzilla bugs along for bz 3 upgrade - updated front page to pull news from our blogs - cleaned up … read moreMozdev status update for W47-2007
Short week due to Thanksgiving holiday, but lots of bugs moved along.
- Preparations for Bugzilla 3.0 upgrade - Notifying project owners, working with sysadmin on other preparations - Move bugzilla tables to its own database - In order to reduce the time it takes to backup our main database and reduce complexity … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-11-20
Present: David Boswell, (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Gerry Murphy (gjm), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - a little Drupal work (theming fixes, install profile fixes) - Thanksgiving theme - replaced mirror content - going to start putting news on front page … read moreMozdev status update for W46-2007
- Fixed Drupal theme selection bug - Users were unable to change their theme due to me forcing the setting in settings.php globally.
- Planning fixes to mysql errors caused by backups - I've been working with Mozdev's sysadmins to try to figure out how best to deal with the two-minute outage daily …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-11-13
Present: David Boswell, (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Gerry Murphy (gjm), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - download counters enabled; projects can use downloads() function again - D.MD.o now shows size of download files - mycroft doesn't use mirror … read moreMozdev status update for W45-2007
Another big week of mirror work. I received responses from all the current mozdev.org mirrors as well as some that I wasn't aware was acting as a mirror. I have most of the mirrors assigned to regions so redirection to the closest mirror should be happening in the near …
read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-11-06
Present: Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Gerry Murphy (gjm)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities - mirror admin interface is complete - waiting on some more responses from mirrors before switching from flat-file redirection to new tool - M.MD.O is updated w/ dynamic content - next todo is …read moreMozdev Status Update for W44-2007
- Finished up mirror management - I finished up the admin interface for managing mirrors. This included contacting all existing mirrors and verifying information (admin email, URLs, regions served). I'll still be spending some time adding additional information to the tool (such as availability reporting) and improving the regions served by each …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-30
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Chris Neale (cdn-work)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - admin tool for managing mirrors is going well, despite some setbacks last week learning some javascript - mirror management should be finished up today, then will start towards download counters and mirror … read moreMozdev Status Update for W43-2007
- Drupal rolled out to
production -
This resolves
bug#7020,
bug#10166,
and
bug#17020.
There has been some community discussion about the /drupal (as in http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki) stuck in the middle of the path for the blog, wiki, and forum. Right now that is an unavoidable …
- Drupal rolled out to
production -
This resolves
bug#7020,
bug#10166,
and
bug#17020.
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-23
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities - Drupal is in production; some use - Need to make a general announcement to PO list and update bugs - Not sure whether to add Drupal to the new project form at this …read moreMozdev Status Update for W42-2007
- RSS icon cleanup on front page
- Vebzom.org DNS was broken for awhile - This kept me from working on the new mirror management library
- Researched email delays - The problem might be related to the massive number of held messages that are sitting in Mailman; it might be the daily nag …
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 #mozdevVebzom.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 …read moreMozdev Status Update W41-2007
The big events for the week are:
- New release of downloads.mozdev.org - The new version allows a browseable directory tree inside mozdev.org's site instead of redirecting to a mirror immediately. Our mirror network is still utilized for downloads, however. - Drupal moved to production - Our Drupal installation is now … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-09
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities - Drupal still ready to deploy - mirror-up script ready to deploy - working on browsable downloads.mozdev.org - working on mirror admin tools - soon to work on mirror redirection to …read moreMozdev status update W40-2007
Most of this week was spent working on mirror improvements and preparing for the Drupal rollout.
- Determined Bouncer won't work for Mozdev - Bouncer's reliance on Product, Version, Language, and OS makes it not quite suitable for Mozdev since we don't make our project owners track language or OS for their … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-02
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities - cvs log rss feed is live; docs for how to add links are added - top-50 page was released - bouncer probably won't work right now w/o changes to …read moreMozdev W39-Y2007 status update
Drupal is ready to be deployed, so that's in a holding pattern waiting for the sysadmins to get time to set things up.
Since Drupal's currently stalled, I've moved onto other projects. Lots of cleanup of various tools that have been implemented recently and started evaluating tools to improve our … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-09-25
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger_away)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities (drupal testing, linking to drupal, rollout...)
- Lots of bug squashing; top-50 page, cvs log rss feed, and admin publish toolare all active now. - Tanker …
Week 38 Year 2007 status update
This past week's progress; somewhat less than I had hoped to finish due to Jocelyn being sick.
- Looking into using bouncer to manage our mirrors - I've only gone through and read all the documentation so far, but the tool seems like it would solve a number of mirror bugs for … read moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-09-18
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 … read moreWeek 37 Year 2007 status update
Drupal for Mozdev is getting close to being ready to implement in production, so I've been mostly working on other bugs this week.
- Drupal integration into Mozdev site - I started looking into how to link Drupal into Mozdev's site - specifically how to include it in the navigation. I haven't gotten … read moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-09-11
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...) - Drupal testing went well with the initial bug reporters. Next is to open
up testing to the general project …
read moreWeek 36 Year 2007 status update
I took a slight diversion from working on Drupal this week to try to give some other tasks attention.
- Drupal Mozdev theme work - Just minor tweaks to make the theme more "mozdevy" and work better with Mozdev's rotating themes.
- Setup custom project - This is a project to hold custom code …
Mozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-09-04
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed current developer projects and upcoming projects: - Performance problems don't seem to be related to Drupal or staging server;
possibly connectivity issues, but haven't been able to prove that yet. - Top-50 page work is …
read moreWeek 35 Year 2007 status update
This is a short week for me, so I didn't get as much accomplished as I hoped. Still, there was some good progress made, and the Drupal install for Mozdev is progressing well. The test for project owners should be coming shortly.
- Multisite Manager/install profile fixes - Fixing Mozdev's install … read moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-08-28
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Chris Neale (cdn-work), Michael Dosser (tanker)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed current developer projects and upcoming projects: - fixed new projects showing up on active list - drupal testing went well; fixed bugs that were reported - release staging copy to Project Owners?read more</p …
Week 34 Year 2007 status update
Mostly Drupal happenings this past week.
- Released staging copy to board members - The board members were able to get access to the staging copy I've been working on in order to test installing new Drupal instances, editing and creating content, and working with their user profiles synced to their Mozdev … read moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-08-21
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger), Myk Melez (myk), Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed current developer projects and upcoming projects: - bug#13381 is complete; need to fix bug w/ new projects on active list - drupal installation profile is … read moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-08-14
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Discussed current developer projects and upcoming projects:
- Doug is fixing a minor bug with the active project list, then the "unstarted project list" bug is completed - Doug setup the project stats … read moreWeek 33 Year 2007 status update
Week 31 Year 2007 status update
Made lots of good progress with Drupal modules and permissions setup this week.
I had some problems with the Liquid wiki module not supporting CamelCase correctly, so I had to use some other modules to implement that as well (pear wiki, freelinking, wikitools). I've setup a default set of permissions … read moreAdmin meeting for 2007-07-31
Present: Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung), Myk Melez (myk)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Discussed Mic's sysadmin priorities:
- Amazon EC2/S3 setup is going well
- Need to determine whether to move old logfiles to EC2 for processing
- Just running EC2 is $72/mo ($0.10 …
- Amazon EC2/S3 setup is going well
Week 30 update
Admin meeting for 2007-07-24
Present: Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Mic and Ivan have been very busy this week and haven't made any progress on the mirror bugs or project stats.
ClamAV on the production server died on Sunday and has …
read moreWeek 29 update
There was a great deal of discussion on the project owners list about the upcoming Firefox 3 update security changes. After discussion with Dave Townsend, Mozdev was able to figure out that we don't need to enforce SSL downloads in order to have secure updates.
The secure updates discussion continued … read moreAdmin meeting for 2007-07-17
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Eric Jung (ericjung), Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale, (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger), Dave Townsend (Mossop)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Discussed Doug's developer priorities:
- Unstarted projects list - receiving Mic's help to implement in production
- Making progress on blog/wiki/forums - see Doug's …
Week 28 update
I pretty much finished up the unstarted project list (bug#13381) near the beginning of last week, so I pushed forward on some other bugs.
For Firefox 3 updates (Mozdev bugs 17110 and 17302, Mozilla bug 378216), I tried to get some clarification to see if we needed SSL at …
read moreWeek 27 update
Last week as mostly spent working on the unstarted project list (bug#13381) and trying to digest how best to handle Firefox 3's upcoming requirement for extensions to be signed or installed via SSL
Most of the work for the unstarted project list is complete; with cvs history in a … read moreStats would be helpful
Weekly update June 25th - 29th
Much of last week was spent with me planning how to get moving on the unstarted projects list and reviewing and brainstorming ideas for bugs.
In order to make bug#13381 possible, I've started work on cvs2mysql which will be able to log cvs transactions to a mysql database. This … read moreFirst Mozilla posting
Other than my previous posting about my home office, this is my first post really about Mozdev (and hopefully will be my first post on Planet Mozilla).
Things have been going pretty well at Mozdev so far. There's a lot of ideas and projects that have been put off for … read more