[Mageia-sysadm] Presentation and contribution to Mageia

Sat Jul 16 03:50:05 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 14 juillet 2011 à 22:39 +0200, sebelee at free.fr a écrit :
+> Hi
+> 
+> After attending Michael's meeting at Libre Software Meeting this week, 
+> i wanted to know how can i contribute to Mageia project ?
+> 
+> My actual work is sysadmin and for the moment i've no experience about 
+> open source project...
+> 
+> At work we maintain about 40 Linux servers (Gentoo, Ubuntu) and the 
+> company newtork (security, vpn links, ...). 
+> I've experience with Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Munin, Qmail. And know some basics with Subversion and Git (usage and server config).
+
+Hi,
+
+regarding the sysadmin team, we do use puppet quite extensively, so the
+first task would be to be familiar with it, and to show you know how to
+use it by proposing patches against our repository ( web interface :
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/ , checkout on
+svn://svn.mageia.org/svn/adm/ ).
+
+The idea is to first see if someone is good enough, and motivated enough
+before granting real access ( for obvious reasons ).
+
+We keep a todo list on
+https://bugs.mageia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=859&hide_resolved=1
+( some tasks are partially done ). 
+
+If you have any kind of questions regarding the infrastructure do not
+hesitate to ask, so we can see what can be improved, especially in the
+light of the current wiki which is a little bit too short :
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=sysadmin 
+
+And among the various things, having documentation would help :)
+
+
+Another useful task would be to package various tools ( I do not have a
+list at hand, sorry ), or improve our current one ( such as
+mirrors.mageia.org, identity ), but this requires perl coding ( catalyst
+mainly ). 
+
+We did receive request from translators about transifex too : 
+https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-i18n/2011-June/002070.html
+so that could be a task where people could help.
+
+Now, if you feel we are asking a little bit too much ( as I said in the
+presentation, maybe puppet is a little bit too intimidating ), there is
+lots of others tasks that would be maybe as useful and interesting
+( like packaging, artwork, even if the second is much more complex to me
+than system administration :) ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+