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

[Michael scherer]

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