This is great stuff.

The meetbot should help out with those of you doing irc meetings.  Please
do use the services.



-- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@[email protected] (remove _@@_)



On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Andrea Veri <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> some time has passed since my latest update so here we come with a few
> items I've been working on on the past two weeks.
>
> New infrastructure-announce mailing list
> ---
>
> From the 8th of May a new mailing list has been started for all the
> announcements about downtimes, outages, maintenances related to the GNOME
> Infrastructure. As a side note the mail you are currently reading will be
> the last that will be kept CCed on desktop-devel-list and foundation-list.
> Please take a little minute to subscribe yourself to the new list at [1] to
> not loose any of the updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team.
>
> ---
>
> Jabber
> ---
>
> As you may have noticed our Jabber server currently doesn't allow you to
> add any JID not equal to [email protected], that means you can't chat
> with people having a JID registered on a different server than the one
> hosted on the GNOME Infrastructure. The problem is related to a specific
> firewall port not being open, we've taken action on it and the relevant
> port will be open really soon for the clients to successfully "talk" with
> other clients coming from the "outside world".
>
> ---
>
> live.gnome.org
> ---
>
> Our wiki had a really quick maintenance [2] that upgraded it to the latest
> available MoinMoin's release. (1.9.7) This release takes in a stronger
> password encryption (it's not based on SHA anymore, but on PASSLIB
> instead), I would suggest anyone to change their password as soon as
> possible.
>
> In addition to the above, I've cleaned up a bit inactive users, deleted
> and trashed pages:
>
> 1. inactive users (users that registered but never did a single edit since
> the time they registered their account) were around 23000 (loads of
> spammers), the current amount of registered and active users went to 6000.
> Editing pages became really too slow, MoinMoin currently checks each of the
> registered user's subscriptions list for eventually notifying the user
> about the change that occurred on the page being edited. That process was
> taking around 9-10 seconds, and that was actually expected with an amount
> of 29000 registered users.
> 2. deleted pages (pages that were marked as 'Deleted' on the wiki) got
> moved from the data/ directory of live.gnome.org to a backup directory
> and the cache was cleaned for the changes to take place.
> 3. trashed pages (pages that were marked as 'Trashed' on the wiki) got
> moved from the data/ directory of live.gnome.org to a backup directory
> and the cache was cleaned for the changes to take place.
>
> ---
>
> MeetBot
> ---
>
> Our Services bot was enhanced with MeetBot, more details are available at
> [3]. Make good use of it!
>
> ---
>
> KGB Bot
> ---
>
> I've been working during the past week on the KGB Bot [4] (it has been a
> pain to package dozen of perl libraries!), which is a little IRC bot
> capable of sendind out notifications when a commit occurs on a specific git
> repository. I'm currently waiting the RH IT to open the specific port on
> the firewall for the kgb-client to communicate correctly with the bot which
> is hosted on a machine outside the datacenter where git.gnome.org runs.
> I'll make sure to send out an additional mail when the service is ready to
> go accepting new requests.
>
> That should be all for now, have an awesome weekend!
>
> [1] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure-announce
> [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-May/msg00033.html
> [3]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-April/msg00037.html
> [4] http://kgb.alioth.debian.org
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Debian Developer,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Sysadmin,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
>
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