Sysadmin Team Meeting August 14th, 2009

Agenda

1. Status Updates
   • Buildbot (not started)
   • Plone installation (Alexandro)
   • Mango updates (Olav)
   • Git hooks for Damned Lies (Sri)
2. Bugzilla upgrade
3. Next round of projects
   • Piwik installation for gnome.org
   • CRM for Marketing team
4. How do we want to handle tracking TODO items (of various scales)?
5. 'Hack fest'

Meeting Minutes

GNOME Sysadmin Meeting Aug. 14th 2009

• John Carr to create Damned Lies git hooks in Sri's absence
• Alexandro has the Plone instance up and running
  • Alexandro to follow up with Carsten on next steps
  • No feedback from Lucas, so assuming that everything is currently working as intended

Misc. Requests / Updates

• Need a new gnome-doc-utils built on progress.gnome.org for Mallard documentation support
• Owen to schedule a Puppet tutorial
• Jack to look into a potential hackfest day / time at the Boston Summit

Bugzilla

• Big thank you to mkanat, owen and bkor for managing and helping mkanat with the Bugzilla upgrade
• Bugzilla will require a new SSL certificate
  • Will need funding from the GNOME Foundation, approxmiately $500 to purchase a real certificate
  • Need a Sysadmin volunteer to determine best option, such as a wild card certificate, as other GNOME services might benefit, such as Mango
• mkanat to monitor Bugzilla for any needed bug fixes for the next 30 days per his contract
  • Logs need to be rotated on bugzilla-web
  • Need to update the GNOME favicon
  • Publish the bzr repository (Monitor upstream Bugzilla on which dvcs they will be using in the future, Mercurial or Bazaar)

GNOME Web Statistics

• Jeff to work on deploying piwik for the GNOME Marketing team to monitor website statistics
  • Piwik is actively maintained and has a large community and is FOSS (Google Analytics is not FOSS)
  • Similar to Google Analytics, it requires a Javascript component on each web page
  • Piwik to be installed label.gnome.org

CRM

• John to follow up with Paul to define Marketing Team's CRM needs (SugarCRM vs CivicCRM)
• Sri or Alexandro to handle deployment after solution is picked

Sysadmin Team Task Tracking

• Team discussed the best tool for tracking future action items and picked Bugzilla for tracking Sysadmin team tasks
  • Team will monitor effectiveness and re-visit in the future if tasks added in Bugzilla grow or not followed-up on
• Owen to file a number of to-do items in Bugzilla