OSTEP Meeting 2013-07-04

OSTEP Team Meeting

Equipment Reorganization

Phase I:

• ToDo - Arndales need setup

• • Needs hard drives and eSATA cable and power?

• --> Builders should be available: 2013-06-21 (oatley)(done)

• Optional - Need way tot track the status of problem builders

Future (For ):

• Update Pidora builder f18v6 chroot (oatley+fossjon+agreene) -> Update to ks-based environment

• Upstream or figure out carry-forward plan for modified packages (for 2013-07-15) (ctyler)

Pidora

ToDo

• SOP page day?

• • Ansible SOP (oatley) (done)

• • Pidora sign mash rsync SOP (oatley) (done)

• • Sigul SOP (oatley)

• • Koji-follow SOP (fossjon) (done?)

• • Document chroot process SOP (v6 specific package changes) from blog (fossjon)

• • Pidora repo sym link setup SOP (oatley)

• Pidora repo sym link double space rsync (oatley)

• Build f19 is being build (agreene)

• • Practice on f19 before f18 updates (agreene)

• Automate the vc-firmware packages (agreene)

Release status and feedback--

• Monitor trac

• Blog posts for pidora x2 each week

• • Choose a day and start blogging together

Issue Tickets

• /etc/hostname file conflict? overriding sysconfig value? (agreene) (Possible solutions)

• • modify firstboot to write hostname file

• • delete file in post of kickstart

• Legality of a pidora miniDLNA package? where can we include it?

• Camera support testing

Building F18-updates, F19, Rawhide:

• f19 is building (agreene)

• agreene is buildmaster

• • qt-webkit, gstreamer-bad-free, perl-crypt-ssl, and more! (done)

• start building by 2013-06-28

Infra Duties

• Repo monitoring script and reporting (fossjon) (deleted)

• A pidora-team group email address so chris doesn't get all the complaints (place on pidora.ca)

• Safe guarded sign/mash/rsync script for better automation and less manual user error (oatley) (mostly done)

• • Still needs automation and email, can be manually envoked though

• A main site to post updates or feedback or announcements? (pidora.ca site && #pidora channel)

• • pidora irc not a OP can't change topic

• • Post this info to forums

• • Start a pidora mailing list?

Pidora blog--

• Need 2 articles per person by EOW (2013-06-21)

Blog Posts

• Ask the community forums about what people might want to do?

• How to set a static ip networkmanager (fossjon) (done)

• How to install and use scratch

• How to make a basic python scrypt

• Use yumex for a graphical install

• Turn the raspberry pi into a media centre?

• Setup some servers, httpd, sshd, etc

• Configure firewall and selinux

• Changing XFCE theme or layout

Firstboot module changes -- jon

• Need i18n for firstboot: http://docs.python.org/2/library/gettext.html (fossjon for 2013-06-28)

• • ex usage: _("This is some text")

• • check modules from upstream, add to our modules

Optimizations

• No longer mash the f18 repos (agreene by 2013-06-28)

• No longer rsync the f18 repos (oatley by 2013-06-28)

• Possible to optimize the signing? (oatley to check)

Openstack

• x86_64 OpenStack setup (fossjon 2013-07-05)

• Reinstall fedora 18 on all computers (fossjon)

• packstack allinone on the iraq

• packstack nova compute to australia

Calxeda Hardware

• Still ONE STINKIN' REFERENCE NUMBER AWAY FROM ORDERING!!!

Schedule

• ctyler away: June 24-28, July 22-Aug 5

• oatley and ctyler at Flock Aug 8-12

• ctyler to find out about end-of-summer schedule

• July 1 & Aug 5 are statutory holidays

• oatley and agreene may take vacation in August