Request for resources: Ask Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
I have just filed the RFR for Ask Fedora at
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2884
Askbot - http://askbot.org is a question and answer oriented forum that
I am requesting Fedora infrastructure team. As some of you might
already know, I have been working on packaging Askbot and its
dependencies for Fedora for the last several weeks. At this point,
except for Askbot itself, all its dependencies are in Fedora. Most of
the dependencies have been built for EPEL 6 as well. We originally
tried building for EPEL 5 but many of the dependencies are expected to
be more recent versions and went with EPEL 6 instead. I expect to
finish all the packaging work before the end of this week. There are
some minor patches for Askbot I am working on that I want to test before
importing Askbot itself but the process is mostly complete and I along
with others have tested it locally. I thought I would get a early
start on the proposal and answer any questions on this and get the
discussions going in parallel while I do the last steps.
I have been working with upstream for a while now and on our request,
upstream has made the authentication system extensible via plugins. We
have added a plugin for authentication via Fedora account system. The
next step is to run a test instance, test it more publicly and fix any
issues and add some minor features (identi.ca support, auto linking to
Red Hat bugzilla for bug references etc) and I hope to be able to go
into production stage or atleast a soft launch before Fedora 16.
I have explained in length my motivations for working on this and rest
of the details at
https://mether.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/the-case-for-ask-fedora/
Do let me know your thoughts
Rahul
12 years, 9 months
bodhi question
by Roberto Sassu
Hi all
i'm doing some queries on the Bodhi DB and
i've found some inconsistencies about the
release number of some packages.
For example if querying the package 'contacts',
bodhi returns two items, the latest of which is:
contacts-0.12-2.fc14
but the package stored in the repository is:
contacts-0.12-2.fc14.1.x86_64.rpm
which means that the release is '2.fc14.1'
and not '2.fc14'. What is the correct one?
Thanks in advance for replies
Roberto Sassu
12 years, 9 months
Fedora Community
by Stephen John Smoogen
No not http://fedoracommunity.org but
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ It has been in beta for 2
years now. What do we need to do to finish it (maybe make it
start.fedoraproject.org?) or put it aside for other things to do?
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
"The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard
battle." -- Ian MacLaren
12 years, 9 months
infra-hosts git repo
by Seth Vidal
hi folks,
Ricky Zhou and I had talked about this a few weeks ago and I wanted to
finish up getting the ball rolling.
I've made a new git repo available at:
/git/infra-hosts on lockbox01
This git tree is for structured and unstructured notes/info on our
hosts.
there is one dir per host. You can put whatever you want into the dirs.
It ends up propagating out to: /srv/web/infra/hosts on lockbox01.
That space is accessible from:
http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/infra/hosts for our hosts.
So - there should be nothing protected, private, nor confidential in
this repo.
Puppet runs:
If you look in any give host dir you will find a file named run-puppet
there.
This file doesn't need to have anything in it but it does need to exist
if you want puppet to be able to run on the host.
This file is checked for on each and every host before puppet is run via
cron. If the file isn't available then puppet won't run. We'll get a
report about hosts on which puppet hasn't run, of course.
So if you want to disable puppet on a box you'd just run:
git rm $hostname/run-puppet; git commit -a; git push
that's it - puppet won't run, unless someone runs something manually.
to reenable - just touch the file, git add it, commit and push
As other things come up we'll add them here and have central repository
where these things can live.
let me know what you think.
-sv
12 years, 9 months
Meeting tomorrow (2011-07-07 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting)
by Kevin Fenzi
The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow
2011-07-07 at 1900 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network.
Suggested topics (suggested by whom):
* New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks.
* Upcoming Tasks/Items (nirik)
2011-07-09 Remove inactive fi-apprentice people.
2011-07-11 - 14: smooge and nirik at phoenix
2011-08-01 figure replacements for xen 03/05/09/15 (EOL 09-25 ish)
2011-08-02 - 16: Alpha change freeze
2011-08-16: Fedora 16 alpha
2011-09-06 - 20: Beta change freeze
2011-09-20: Fedora 16 Beta
2011-10-11 - 25: Final change freeze
2011-10-25: Fedora 16 release.
* Smooge and Kevin on site in phx next week
* Meeting tagged tickets:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=new&status=as...
Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a
note replying to this thread.
More info here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings
Thanks
kevin
12 years, 9 months
Re: Fedora Community
by John (J5) Palmieri
----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 21:53 +0000, Luke Macken wrote:
> > Personally, I still use fedoracommunity on a regular basis, and find
> > it
> > to be extremely useful in many ways. Right now we do not have any
> > idea
> > as to how many people are using it. I think we should do some log
> > analysis, and maybe a survey to see what people like/dislike/want.
> > Also,
> > Mo did a usability study at FUDCon many moons ago, and we have yet
> > to
> > really sit down and analyze the results.
>
> FWIW:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCommunity/UsabilityTestingRound1
>
> The analysis I put together is here, but we never sat down and went
> through it and determined the right solution for each:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCommunity/UsabilityTestingRound1/Anal...
>
>
> > So, in order to remove the 'beta' from fedoracommunity, I would
> > personally like the see the following happen:
> >
> > * Polish up the interface, and make it *much* snappier.
> > Right now the interface feels very clunky, and the full page
> > reloads when clicking on certain areas is killing us. There
> > is still a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of optimization.
>
> Need to update to the new 960.gs template too since the old Fedora css
> is going away.
> >
> > Spot, J5 and I will be meeting next Thursday to draft a potential
> > roadmap going forward.
>
> I'd be interested in joining if you wouldn't mind...
>
>
> ¬m
Sorry, I've been in the mist of geting a major rewrite of PyGObject Introspection through review and purchasing a house so I missed this discussion. The PyGObject stuff is the reason I haven't had time to work on Fedora Community. Since python support for GTK+ underlies a lot of our tools this became the priority. The rewrite should get approval by next week in which case I will have time to start dedicating to finishing off Fedora Community.
In my opinion optimizing should entail focusing on the package views and search which have the most useful information and building out each section as individual web apps which do not require page reloads.
--
John (J5) Palmieri
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
12 years, 9 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Derren Dunn
by Derren Dunn
Hi All,
My name is Derren Dunn and I am interested in helping out the
infrastructure group in any way that I can. I hold a current RHCE with
network security endorsement and am looking for a project to keep my
skills sharp. In addition, I have reasonable python coding skills and
am interested in using these skills to develop infrastructure/sysadmin
related scripts and software.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the regularly scheduled
infrastructure meetings because they are scheduled at a time that
conflicts my current job responsibilities, but I am happy to follow up
during off hours and keep abreast of meeting minutes.
-- Derren
P.S. My irc handle is dunntm.
12 years, 9 months
Re: Fedora Community
by Luke Macken
Excerpts from Máirín Duffy's message of Wed Jul 06 18:06:13 -0400 2011:
> On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 21:53 +0000, Luke Macken wrote:
> > Personally, I still use fedoracommunity on a regular basis, and find it
> > to be extremely useful in many ways. Right now we do not have any idea
> > as to how many people are using it. I think we should do some log
> > analysis, and maybe a survey to see what people like/dislike/want. Also,
> > Mo did a usability study at FUDCon many moons ago, and we have yet to
> > really sit down and analyze the results.
>
> FWIW:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCommunity/UsabilityTestingRound1
>
> The analysis I put together is here, but we never sat down and went
> through it and determined the right solution for each:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCommunity/UsabilityTestingRound1/Anal...
Oh, excellent!
> > Spot, J5 and I will be meeting next Thursday to draft a potential
> > roadmap going forward.
>
> I'd be interested in joining if you wouldn't mind...
Of course! Sorry, I meant to include you in that original list :)
luke
12 years, 9 months