Re: On Fedora's Localization platform
by Robert Mayr
2014-07-17 12:17 GMT+02:00 Dimitris Glezos <glezos(a)transifex.com>:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I'll share some of my thoughts at this point.
>
>
> GIST
>
> Freedom is more than just access to a tarball. What kinds of Freedom is
> Fedora enjoying and giving up by using a platform like Transifex or GitHub?
>
> What is the Board's position about using non-open-source but open-friendly
> services? How much should we sacrifice to only run open-source on our
> servers?
>
> Research thoroughly all possible solutions and find out what exactly we'll
> be sacrificing and gaining. Pootle is much more trusted than Zanata.
> Ask all key Fedora L10n people. Past and current.
> Any switch should be led by a technical Fedora localization person.
> The goal should be to make Fedora L10n a successful project. The tools are
> just tools. The most important community features in Transifex have not been
> used.
[snip]
> --
> Dimitris Glezos
> Founder & CEO, Transifex
> https://www.transifex.com/
Dimitris,
we need to be consistent IMHO, if one of our foundations is FREEDOM we
can't use non-free tools, or at least we should not use them if we
have alternatives. As a mentor I'd feel bad telling people about
Fedora's values and knowing at the same time the Project itself is not
consistent with exactly these values. It's the same discussion we had
for 3d party repositories, but we should focus on this single topic.
Zanata actually is an alternative, probably not on the same level as
TX, but anyway, I'd feel better using Zanata knowing we are respecting
or 4 foundations, than staying on a proprietary tool.
Best regards.
--
Robert Mayr
(robyduck)
9 years, 9 months
Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2014-07-17)
by Kevin Fenzi
The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow,
2014-07-17 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network.
Suggested topics:
#topic New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks.
If any new folks want to give a quick one line bio or any apprentices
would like to ask general questions, they can do so in this part of the
meeting. Don't be shy!
#topic Applications status / discussion
Check in on status of our applications: pkgdb, fas, bodhi, koji,
community, voting, tagger, packager, dpsearch, etc.
If there's new releases, bugs we need to work around or things to note.
#topic Sysadmin status / discussion
Here we talk about sysadmin related happenings from the previous week,
or things that are upcoming.
#topic nagios/alerts recap
Here we go over the last weeks alerts and see if we can find ways to
make it so they don't happen again.
#topic Upcoming Tasks/Items
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/list/infrastructure/
#topic Open Floor
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
9 years, 9 months
[pkgdb2] Group Maintainership - Ready to test?
by Pierre-Yves Chibon
Dear all,
I have just put in pkgdb2's git what I believe is the current final touch to
allow testing group maintainership in pkgdb2.
Basically, pkgdb2 will now ask you upon log-in if you are: in one of the admin
groups, a packager, in a group that is currently maintaining one or more
packages in the database.
I also created an `infra-sig` group in FAS with the type: pkgdb, the two
requirements enforced by pkgdb2 are:
- the group should be of type pkgdb
- the group should end with `-sig`
So I would like to ask who has some time to start looking at this, maybe early
next week?
On the pkgdb side, unless we want to change some things, I think it will be
alright (and if not, I'll adjust), but I think we still need to adjust our
scripts syncing ACLs to git and bugzilla or at least test them.
We'll also probably want to see how bodhi reacts and if it allows a packager to
create a package because the packager is in the appropriate FAS group.
So, Toshio, Luke, would you have time to help with this?
Thanks,
Pierre
9 years, 9 months
FYI, note on sudo
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
Thanks to some detective work from Siddhesh Poyarekar (a glibc
maintainer) and then fas work from Xavier LAMIEN, we have now fixed the
long standing anoying bug with fas enabled machines where users
wouldn't get all their shell groups on login.
This means you no longer need to run 'newgrp' before sudo, it should
just work (provided you are in a group that is allowed to sudo on that
host).
Thanks again everyone involved. It's great to have this fixed.
kevin
9 years, 9 months
July status update for Fedora Infrastructure Apprentices
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group
in the fedora account system (or are reading this on the
infrastructure list).
Feel free to reply just directly to me, or cc the infrastructure list
for everyone to see and comment on.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice
At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an
email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for
you.
I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the
following data or anything related you can think of that might help us
make the apprentice program more useful.
0. Whats your fedora account system login?
1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at
our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to?
2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute
to more?
3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the fi-apprentice
'easyfix' tickets?
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14
4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever
reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road?
5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help
you do any of the above?
6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
Finding tickets in your interest area?
7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them
helpful or interesting?
8. What is your favorite movie of all time?
Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.
Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from the
group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or
whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the
group up to date with active folks).
Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback!
kevin
9 years, 9 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction - Michel Alexandre Salim (salimma)
by Michel Alexandre Salim
Dear infrastructure devs,
My name is Michel Alexandre Salim (IRC handle: michel_slm); I've been a
longtime contributor on the packaging side, and was previously involved
tangentially with the sysadmin-darkserver FIG when Kushal and I were
exploring a potential rewrite that ended up not take place.
I'm currently in charge of system administration for a local ISP
(cergis.net.id), and had a similar responsibility at my previous job for
an Indonesian hospital group; and am versed in the tools that this team
uses:
- Linux - Fedora/CentOS (Debian too but that's not relevant)
- Python
- Django
- SQL
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
- Ansible
I'm looking at the list of outstanding issues now -- I'll perhaps ask at
the next meeting which of the non-sensitive issues could use some help
at the moment.
Best regards,
--
Michel Alexandre Salim
Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/
Email: salimma(a)fedoraproject.org | GPG key ID: A36A937A
Jabber: hircus(a)jabber.ccc.de | IRC: michel_slm(a)irc.freenode.net
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9 years, 9 months
Following up on Atomic in Fedora infrastructure
by Colin Walters
For https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Atomic_Cloud_Image I was
talking with Dennis Gilmore about some of what we would need to do in
order to have Atomic be more closely integrated into the mainline
infrastructure.
>From memory, some action items:
* Define repodata.xml or similar to enable mirroring, add mirrorlist
support [walters]
* Start doing tree composes in daily compose runs [dgilmore]
* Move fedora-atomic git repository into fedorahosted [walters]
* Determine how Anaconda-in-Koji can pull tree content [?]
Also, I need to followup to Kevin on the mirroring, which is related to
the last item.
Dennis, can you post the picture you took of the whiteboard?
9 years, 9 months
pkgdb2 obsolete field
by Christopher Meng
HI,
I'd like to know what does "Obsolete" mean in the pkgdb commit access,
and I couldn't understand why it still presents if someone has dropped
the ACL.
Plus, why can't the point of the contact remove the obslete acl?
Thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng
Noob here.
http://cicku.me
9 years, 9 months