Re: Retiring devs [was Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41]

2005-11-20 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:26:28PM -0600, Brian Harring wrote: Forums people, any thoughts/requirements? Currently there are approximately 10 mods/admins. In general it's possible for us to keep track of who of us is active or not. Those folks also have toucan access and _should_ update their

Re: Retiring devs [was Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41]

2005-11-20 Thread Bryan �stergaard
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:26:28PM -0600, Brian Harring wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:04:44PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: The problem is in detection- an infra issue that could be solved by either allowing normal devrel people to run the detection scripts themselves (rather then

Re: Retiring devs [was Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41]

2005-11-20 Thread Lance Albertson
Bryan Ãstergaard wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:26:28PM -0600, Brian Harring wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:04:44PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: The problem is in detection- an infra issue that could be solved by either allowing normal devrel people to run the detection scripts themselves

Re: Retiring devs [was Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41]

2005-11-20 Thread Bryan �stergaard
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:34:20AM -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: I think we've fixed some of those issues with solar's script. You just need to look at the list and make your assumptions. The script is great to spitting out a list that you can look it. Its not 100%, but its good enough to at

Re: Retiring devs [was Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41]

2005-11-20 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:10:34PM +0100, Bryan Ãstergaard wrote: We should be able to handle forums staff the same way I currently check bugs activity. Only requires ro access to the database and a small script but this would obviously have to be discussed with infra and forum leads. As

[gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
Ignoring the yellow star issue, there are a few implementation concerns/impossibilities with GLEP 41 in its current form. For instance, the way GLEP 41 suggests doing r/o cvs is not going to work. It suggests using a single account and placing an SSH key for each arch tester in that account's

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Danny van Dyk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Lieber schrieb: | Ignoring the yellow star issue, there are a few implementation | concerns/impossibilities with GLEP 41 in its current form. | | For instance, the way GLEP 41 suggests doing r/o cvs is not going to work. | It suggests using a

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Simon Stelling
Kurt Lieber wrote: Because, in practice, this doesn't happen. Accounts (or, in this case, email addresses) stay around until someone gets enough of a bee under their bonnet to do somethig about it. Since there's no pain or cost for the AT/HT project lead, there's no reason for them to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:06:15PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: For instance, the way GLEP 41 suggests doing r/o cvs is not going to work. It suggests using a single account and placing an SSH key for each arch tester in that account's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. text in question Get read-only

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:06:15PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: Now, the same question for email -- how do we manage aliases, especially for inactive, retired and semi-retired arch testers? We could track usage in logs, but between mailing list subscriptions, bugzilla notifications and all sorts

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:03:55PM +0100 or thereabouts, Sven Vermeulen wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:06:15PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: Now, the same question for email -- how do we manage aliases, especially for inactive, retired and semi-retired arch testers? We could track usage in

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:14:03PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:03:55PM +0100 or thereabouts, Sven Vermeulen wrote: Isn't this an issue that also exists for the Gentoo developers in general? Not as much since we can track things like last cvs commit, last login to

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:51:15PM -0600 or thereabouts, Brian Harring wrote: I'll again point out that the glep doesn't actually mandate it, states it's the lowest common denominator that's acceptable. And I'll point out that there's more than one issue that we're concerned with here.

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Lares Moreau
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:03 +, Kurt Lieber wrote: I'm going to come up with an implementation plan that looks something like the following: * all SSH keys and email addresses for arch testers will auto-expire after 60 days. If an arch tester needs to have continued access, a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:03:58PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:51:15PM -0600 or thereabouts, Brian Harring wrote: Stop pointing at one interpretation of it that sucks, when the glep _does_ leave it open to you how to implement it. It's a waste of people's time

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:06:15PM + or thereabouts, Kurt Lieber wrote: For instance, the way GLEP 41 suggests doing r/o cvs is not going to work. So, in the interests of trying to find a solution to this particular problem... As I understand the GLEP, the main requirement here is to give

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 04:30:53PM -0600 or thereabouts, Brian Harring wrote: Infra doesn't even do retirement beyond when _devrel_ asks them to. If that process is slow, ask for help and someone will chip in and improve it (mainly to minimize bottleneck involved). OK, fine. Devrel does not

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:44:41PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Meltzer wrote: Funy, I was just pondering that myself... is authenticated rsync really possible? Yes, it has its own auth mechanism. We actually use it for some automated cron jobs that we have. The only downside to this that I

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Dan Meltzer
On 11/19/05, Kurt Lieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:44:41PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Meltzer wrote: Funy, I was just pondering that myself... is authenticated rsync really possible? Yes, it has its own auth mechanism. We actually use it for some automated cron

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Dan Meltzer
Sorry for two mails in a row.. but out of curiosity, instead of using 30 minute rsync, why not 30 minute mirror of cvs? KDE does this fairly well, they even have it something like every 5 minutes, is there any reason mirrored cvs is not possible//feasible? is this something svn has gotten better

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 04:52:08PM -0600 or thereabouts, Brian Harring wrote: Devrel doesn't have much issues in actually retiring a dev from where I'm sitting. Then I guess we'll disagree on this. The problem is in detection- an infra issue that could be solved by either allowing normal

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Tres Melton
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:47 +, Kurt Lieber wrote: OK, fine. Devrel does not have an established track record of retiring devs who are otherwise inactive. Please fix this. Please also get an agreement from them that they're going to be willing to take on the additional load of these arch

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:59:46PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Meltzer wrote: Sorry for two mails in a row.. but out of curiosity, instead of using 30 minute rsync, why not 30 minute mirror of cvs? KDE does this fairly well, they even have it something like every 5 minutes, is there any reason

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Lance Albertson
Tres Melton wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:47 +, Kurt Lieber wrote: OK, fine. Devrel does not have an established track record of retiring devs who are otherwise inactive. Please fix this. Please also get an agreement from them that they're going to be willing to take on the additional

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Simon Stelling
Lance Albertson wrote: I see this as something that devrel would take care of since they already do this for developers. They already have the tools/access to the places for such things. Would rather not have another set of folks with that access. So do I. Hint: Homer Parker is a devrel member

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Lares Moreau
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:56 +, Kurt Lieber wrote: So, can other arch testers please pitch in with their $.02? If we gave you rsync instead of CVS, would that be sufficient? Or do you need the revision history, etc. of CVS? And, any objections to a ~30 minute delay between CVS-this

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Lance Albertson
Lares Moreau wrote: I personally do not need Revision histories, I can't speak for other ATs. Rsync with 30min delay is a noted improvement over the standard rsync policy. Does this also allow us to sync to main rotation mirroes is that already overstressed? I ask because IIRC it may take

Retiring devs [was Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41]

2005-11-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:04:44PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: The problem is in detection- an infra issue that could be solved by either allowing normal devrel people to run the detection scripts themselves (rather then asking infra to do so) First I've heard of this request. Has a bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Lance Albertson
Lares Moreau wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:13 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: is the 25-55 minute lag good enough? It may need to be good enough. Personally I would like to have 5-7 min. That way when I'm working with a dev, I can keep up to speed with her/him without having to resort to

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Lares Moreau
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 19:02 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: For now, I don't want to rsync more than every 30 minutes (concerns of overloading the main cvs server). Pylon has mentioned that the newer version of cvs has better commit hooks that may allow for more of a live replication effect,

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Grant Goodyear
Kurt Lieber wrote: [Sat Nov 19 2005, 04:42:41PM CST] On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:06:15PM + or thereabouts, Kurt Lieber wrote: If the requirement is for r/o CVS access to the same CVS server that the pure-blooded developers use (sorry, couldn't resist) then it may require upgrades to our

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Grant Goodyear
Kurt Lieber wrote: [Sat Nov 19 2005, 04:47:37PM CST] OK, fine. Devrel does not have an established track record of retiring devs who are otherwise inactive. Just as an aside, I've seen scores (if not more) of devs retired within the last couple of months, so I think that problem is currently

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:25 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: Kurt Lieber wrote: [Sat Nov 19 2005, 04:42:41PM CST] On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:06:15PM + or thereabouts, Kurt Lieber wrote: If the requirement is for r/o CVS access to the same CVS server that the pure-blooded developers use

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Corey Shields
On Saturday 19 November 2005 08:25 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote: In any event, do we need a new server anyway? We actually do have some money that could be spent on such things, and the CVS server is really high on the list of for which I, personally, would be more than willing to spend it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Lance Albertson
Ned Ludd wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:25 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: Kurt Lieber wrote: [Sat Nov 19 2005, 04:42:41PM CST] On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:06:15PM + or thereabouts, Kurt Lieber wrote: If the requirement is for r/o CVS access to the same CVS server that the pure-blooded

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Corey Shields
On Saturday 19 November 2005 08:50 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: Yeah, we defiantly could use a beefy new server for CVS/SVN. Just make sure you chat with robbat2/Pylon on the specifics for the requirements. I believe the main thing they wanted was lots of ram. As discussed before, the new dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:04:13PM -0800, Corey Shields wrote: On Saturday 19 November 2005 08:50 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: Yeah, we defiantly could use a beefy new server for CVS/SVN. Just make sure you chat with robbat2/Pylon on the specifics for the requirements. I believe the main