[Mageia-sysadm] list of things to do in sysadmin

Fri Apr 8 08:09:46 CEST 2011

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:02:35AM +0200, nicolas vigier wrote:
+> Hello,
+> 
+> As todo list on the wiki for sysadmin was not updated for a long time, I
+> looked at list of things we have to do.
+> 
+> For the buildsystem :
+> 
+>  Youri :
+>  * use upstream version of youri from zarb
+>  * add support for new architectures (if we decide to add ARM as
+>    supported architecture)
+>  * keep compilation logs for sucessful builds (for the last version of each
+>    package) #670
+>  * support building packages for core and tainted repositories #340
+>  * add priorities on builds, to be able to submit builds with low priority
+>    which are done when all other builds with higher priority are done
+>  * add support for dependencies between builds and/or api to allow
+>    scripting on client side. #631
+>  * add command to cancel a build #635
+>  * Decide if we use a database to store build infos, or continue to
+>    save them inside files and paths.
+> 
+>  iurt :
+>  * use linux containers #667
+>  * allow to generate src.rpm from svn in the chroot #392
+>  * do benchmarks with multiple builds on the same node, to see if we can
+>    still have acceptable performance. Two builds on each node would
+>    avoid blocking the build system for a few hours when there is a big
+>    package building
+> 
+>  mgarepo :
+>  * add support for branches
+>  * use anonymous svn in create-srpm so we don't need ssh agent
+>  * add kill command #318
+> 
+>  Other :
+>  * send commit emails for commits from apprentice
+>  * send failed build emails to submitter
+>  * enable ssh keys from ldap on valstar. Export is working (and used on
+>    rabbit), but we need to import all ssh keys on filesystem to ldap.
+>  * make tool to move/remove packages from repository (like rpmctl)
+>  * see how to manage groups alias for bugzilla / maintainers db
+> 
+> And other things :
+> 
+> - setup wiki
+> - setup pastebin
+> - create tool to save and share passwords http://is.gd/KDtys0
+> - finish setup of git repositories. Decide which tools to use to manage
+>   git repositories (or create our tools to do it).
+- setup backup
+- setup redundant ldap, postfix
+- migrate forum vm to another host
+- sign iso and keys with our keys
+( maybe others )
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+