Re: Where to propose changes to www.debian.org sites?

2016-01-30 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Jan 30, 2016 at 07:49:48 +0100, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> After reading descriptions of a lot of mailing lists, I'm still
> uncertain where to propose changes to www.debian.org sites.
> 
> I'd like to
> 
>   * add a link to www.debian.org/intro/help referring to further
> information about contribution (e.g. the site says _that_ you can
> contribute patches which isn't a huge surprise given Debian is a free
> software project and it would be nice to have a link to very certainly
> existing information where and how to do that.
>   * suggest to display the summaries of mailing list on the complete
> list of mailing lists at https://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html in
> order to be able to find results quicker using the browser search function

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lists.debian.org upgraded to jessie

2015-08-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
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Hi,

we just upgraded lists.debian.org to jessie.

Please report abnormalities to listmas...@lists.debian.org.

Thanks,
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Re: Update to reimbursement procedure (now: max 3 months after expense)

2014-10-06 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Lucas, 

i am a bit unhappy with that change, i can understand your move though.
See reason below.

On Mon Oct 06, 2014 at 10:53:13 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
 I also used that opportunity to update the wiki page so that it reads:
 
   As a general rule, '''no reimbursement requests will be processed if
   requested more than three months after the corresponding event'''
   (sprint, purchase, etc).
 
   (diff: 1 year - three months)
 
 Clarifications:
 - It's three months starting from the time when you can start asking
   for reimbursement. For sprints, it's when your travel is completed,
   not when you initially bought tickets.  For hardware purchases, I
   don't mind if it's when the hardware is delivered or even set up,
   if there are doubts about whether it will work, for example.

FFIS insists in the original paper receipts. Every snail mail letter to
FFIS costs me 55¢. While this is not much, with your change the number
of letters i need to send raises for me.

I tend to mail leader@, auditor@ and ffis immidiatly after the expense,
but tend to collect the receipts for a while and then send a bunch of
them to FFIS. Can we keep it that way, even if the time distance
between two letters to FFIS is like... 6 months or so?

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Re: new DSA team trainee

2014-09-02 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi folks,

Please be aware that we have invited Julien Cristau jcristau to join
DSA as a DSA trainee.

Fortunately for us, he accepted (our arm twisting) so, with a bit of
luck, we can now go back to doing nothing and let the trainee do all the
work.

On behalf of the DSA Team,
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new DSA team trainee

2014-08-28 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi folks,

Please be aware that we have invited Paul Wise pabs to join DSA as a
DSA trainee.

Fortunately for us, he accepted (our arm twisting) so, with a bit of
luck, we can now go back to doing nothing and let the trainee do all the
work.

On behalf of the DSA Team,
zobel

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Debian Services Census

2014-02-13 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

We've just started the Debian Services Census and we'd like *you* to
participate in it.

The Debian Services Census is an attempt to gather detailed information
about software services for the Debian community. It doesn't matter
where these services live or who provides them. For now we are only
interested in their existence.

Services can be anything from the mail forwarding service for
@debian.org addresses that lives on master.debian.org operated by DSA,
web applications, email bots, command line scripts you can run on
debian.org machines, automated package checkers that report bugs to
people, Debian-related services that people run on their own
infrastructure like screenshots.debian.net and son on.  Have a look at
https://wiki.debian.org/Services for more examples.

If you think it's a service, then we think it's a service too and we
want to know about it. Feel free to contribute data whether you are the
maintainer of that service or not.

Here is how to let us know about the service:

- please visit https://wiki.debian.org/Services and verify if the
  service is already listed there
  
- if the service you had in mind is *not* listed, please create an entry
  for it using the Add a new service button.

If you are the maintainer of a service, we also encourage you to
subscribe to the debian-services-ad...@lists.debian.org mailing list,
which is a low-traffic list and should be the contact point for
inter-service communication and coordination.

Best regards,
zobel  enrico

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DSA Team Meeting minutes, 2013-12-13

2014-01-03 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

here are the minutes from DSA monthly which we hold 2013-12-13. Sorry
for the delay of the meeting minutes.


- attendance
 o DSA
   - Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi)
   - Luca Filipozzi (lfilipoz)
   - Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel)
   - Peter Palfrader (weasel)
   - Faidon Liambotis (paravoid)
   - Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)
   - Stephen Gran (sgran)
 o Watchers:
   - Cyril Brulebois (kibi)
   - Ansgar Burchardt (ansgar)

- status updates
 o SSL certificates (zobel / lfilipoz)
   - gandi has not lived up to any of their promises
   - does not respond to our mails which lead to even more
 frustration
   - re-pinged gandi about E-Rate pricing (zobel)
   - if no response, look for some other ssl provider (comodo, luca)
 o DSA pre-paid
   - current pre-paid credit card that Debian has is actually gift
 card, which cannot be used everywhere
   - luca will re-ping Debian Leader, Debian Auditor and SPI
 Treasurer regarding their offer of a prepaid credit card for DSA
 o franck's MSA (luca, zobel)
   - correct HP CarePack has been ordered
   - waiting for Softchoice to provide registration number
 o beethoven replacement (rt #4724, zobel)
   zobel working on a quote.  things may happen this year still, certainly 
in Jan.
   need to ship new beethoven disks to dg-i
 o SSO status (zobel)
 - no recent progress
   o UD rewrite status (luca)
   - no recent progress
 o ries data recovery (luca)
  - disks have been received at ubcece from brown
  - in December, need to schedule a outage for ravel so that ries
disks can be installed and data recovered
  - ubcece paid for the shipping of the disks
 o CDN plan (tfheen)
   - no recent progress
   - maybe use blends.d.o, mozilla.d.n as volunteers projects for CDN
 o debdelta (tfheen, weasel)
   [XXX: check current status]
 o codesearch (tfheen)
  - no recent progress - blocked on systemd backport and system
review
  - KiBi and ansgar willing to look into a systemd backport
 o archive.org status (luca)
   - have not received responses to previous set of emails
   - will re-ping in January
 o stabile status (luca)
   - pre-owned 3ware controller has been received at ubcece from
 ebay vendor
   - in January, need to confirm which 3ware controller is bad and
 replace
   - ubcece paid for the pre-owned 3ware controller (which is
 discontinued; hence ebay)
 o DNS status:
   - ns4 to move away from orff: work in progress (weasel)
   - moving DNS master to denis.d.o
 o email unification (tfheen)
   - heads-up from tfheen, he is moving more and more services to
 the front-MXs
 o empty ravel
   - KiBi volunteered to help with coordinating of moving services
   - new people.d.o shall be a VM at Bytemark.
 o service guidelines
   work in progress (zobel)

+ meta:
 o meeting times and agendas
   - tfheen to organize finding a new slot
 o updated delegation listing zumbi as DSA
   - pending Debian Leader

- HW:
 o GRnet hardware purchases
   - blocked on paravoid = DPL interaction
 o ARM buildd plan/roadmap (zumbi)
   - hildegard.d.o: down, another disk failure
   - worried about the general state of arm HW reliability
   - ipa.d.n: to remain as porterbox.. it needs to be setup with
 Debian land
   + ARM hw options being discussed with:
  - Boston for Calxeda ARM server -- pending on them getting back to us
with proposal
  - Upstream kernel guys plan to drop mv78x00 (armel buildds), they are
contacting Marvell for replacement hardware -- pending on them to ping us
  - Development boards donations: mx6q based boundary devices,
openblocks (armadaxp)
 o MIPS buildd plan (zumbi)
- all our existing hardware is buggy.  If this does not get
  fixed, we will not have any buildd or porter hardware for jessie.
- zobel to replace disk of rem next week when on-site.
- people working on mips64el port want to enter debian-ports
- they are using loongson 3A devices, it would be good to
  investigate deeper if we can source some of that hardware as buildd.
 o disks for bytemark (tfheen)
- current plan is to get 1+12x 2tb sata disks.
 o MAN-DA hardware purchases - ganeti cluster hosts
   - no progress yet, zobel want to contact reseller in Berlin next
 week
 o cyclades console servers at manda (zobel)
   - will be racked next week by zobel
   
- just starting
 o debian-ports plan (zumbi)
   + Need to migrate debian-ports services into DSA machine:
   - It needs to keep a separated archive from official one
 (mini-dak) and separated wb db.
   + Still need to figure out how are we going to allow non-DD uploaders
 o

Re: a SIP or XMPP service for debian.org

2013-12-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sun Dec 22, 2013 at 10:44:08 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
 
 
 I've started a wiki on this topic, it provides a detailed plan from
 start to finish:
 
 https://wiki.debian.org/UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelopers
 
 As one of the leading free software projects and given Debian's
 particularly outspoken attitude that we do not rely on third party
 free services there are compelling reasons to try and finally
 implement this entirely using our own packages and infrastructure.
 
 * do people generally agree with it?
 
 * would the DSA team be willing to provide and support the underlying
 infrastructure for this or have it on any existing servers?


zobel@kvasir ~ % ldapsearch -LLL -x -H ldap://db.debian.org -b 
ou=hosts,dc=debian,dc=org '(host=cilea)' purpose
dn: host=cilea,ou=hosts,dc=debian,dc=org
purpose: voip.debian.{net,org}

zobel@kvasir ~ % 


For more details, please contact Phil Hands.

Cheers,
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Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Wed Dec 04, 2013 at 17:45:22 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
 3) I was a bit surprised to see Martin's announcement that Hector
 was now a member of DSA, and his request to update the DSA delegation.

I don't understand that. Hector has been doing a good amount of work as
part of the DSA team. After he has been a trainee for half a year, I
spoke with the other members (yes, that was done privatly, i need to
admit) if they also think that he should become a full member. I waited
until I heared back from all other members.

 The usual process is that the appointement of delegates is usually
 discussed between the DPL and the team. Of course, for well-functioning
 teams that propose a new delegate who already went through a training
 process, that discussion is rather likely to be short. But that's not a
 valid reason to suppress it completely and make it sound like a
 public demand that the DPL does the required paperwork (I'm sure that
 it was not Martin's intent, but it's still worth clarifying, I think).

My intent was to be as open as possible in the decission we have taken. 
As Joerg wrote, I think uncontroversial changes to functional teams have
never been a problem for an update of a DPL delegation.

Is the DSA team a non-functional team?

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Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Thu Dec 05, 2013 at 11:45:22 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
 On 05/12/13 at 10:53 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
  Hi, 
  
  On Wed Dec 04, 2013 at 17:45:22 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
   3) I was a bit surprised to see Martin's announcement that Hector
   was now a member of DSA, and his request to update the DSA delegation.
  
  I don't understand that. Hector has been doing a good amount of work as
  part of the DSA team. After he has been a trainee for half a year, I
  spoke with the other members (yes, that was done privatly, i need to
  admit) if they also think that he should become a full member. I waited
  until I heared back from all other members.
  
   The usual process is that the appointement of delegates is usually
   discussed between the DPL and the team. Of course, for well-functioning
   teams that propose a new delegate who already went through a training
   process, that discussion is rather likely to be short. But that's not a
   valid reason to suppress it completely and make it sound like a
   public demand that the DPL does the required paperwork (I'm sure that
   it was not Martin's intent, but it's still worth clarifying, I think).
  
  My intent was to be as open as possible in the decission we have taken. 
  As Joerg wrote, I think uncontroversial changes to functional teams have
  never been a problem for an update of a DPL delegation.
  
  Is the DSA team a non-functional team?
 
 I wouldn't say that. I think that the general opinion inside the project
 is that it's functioning quite well, well, or very well, depending on
 who you ask.
 
 However, there has recently been a number of events where there seem to
 have been communication problems between DSA and the rest of project
 (service developers not engaging with DSA early during the design
 process; service developers engaging with DSA late, and then having
 difficult conversations; failed contact between service maintainers and
 DSA about service moves, ...). And as a result, several people gave
 up on hosting services they maintain inside Debian infrastructure.
 
 I think that it's important for Debian to provide an environment for
 experimenting ideas on infrastructure, designing new services, etc.
 Ideally, I think that this should happen on Debian infrastructure
 managed by DSA, because (1) it facilitates collaborative service
 maintenance; (2) it's better when people focus on what they are doing
 best, and we don't have a infinite supply of expert sysadmins.
 So I'm trying to see if something can be done to improve the current
 status.

I am going to write down the minimal service infrastructure requirements
that DSA have and i will publish it here on the list. Maybe that helps
all of the project when discussing about new services with DSA.

I also encourage to project (or the corresponding service owners) to
help us having a census about services. I think we should do that on
debian-services-ad...@lists.debian.org, a mailing list which was created
years ago for exactly that purpose (to have one single contact point for
both DSA and 'service owners').

Cheers,
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Re: Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas

Hi Lucas,

 Hi Lucas,
 
 I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a
 full member of the team.

I think that this mail must have been misinterpreted.  It was not meant
to be a demand.  I was happy to share that we had recruited zumbi.  He's
been working with us in one form or another for over three years now and
is very experienced with porter workflow and helped a lot recently
within the arm community.

Within the last year he has shared more and more of our duties and my
colleagues and I thought it high time that he not only be part of the
team, but that he also be recognized by the project as such.  My
colleagues and I are very excited to have him onboard.  Please rest
assured that no offense was intended.

Best regards,
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Please update the DSA delegation

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Lucas,

I am pleased to announce that DSA has promoted Héctor Orón Martínez to a
full member of the team.

Please update the delegation for the Debian System Administrators
accordingly.

Here's a proposed text for this delegation:

[Text taken from old delegation at 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/10/msg2.html]


DSA delegation
==

I hereby appoint the following developers as members of the Debian
System Administrators (DSA) team:

- Faidon Liambotis (paravoid)
- Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi)
- Luca Filipozzi   (lfilipoz)
- Martin Zobel-Helas   (zobel)
- Peter Palfrader  (weasel)
- Stephen Gran (sgran)
- Tollef Fog Heen  (tfheen)

Any previous delegation to the same team, not explicitly listed above,
is revoked.

The delegation is not time-limited. It will be effective until further
changes by present or future DPLs.


Job Description
---

Debian System Administrator team members handle the basic infrastructure
of the project. They are responsible for tasks that include:

- Maintaining the central user (LDAP) database listing all the Debian
  developers. This includes:
  - account creation and deletion based on requests from the Debian
Account Managers
  - correlation of GPG keys to the according accounts based on requests
from the Debian Keyring Maintainers
- Setting up and administering Debian-owned machines, ensuring that they
  are kept secure, operational, and running.
- Coordinating with local admins of the machines regarding network
  connectivity and (if needed) asking for remote hands
- Granting required rights to other developers who need them to maintain
  a particular service
- Handle standard services like the debian.org email alias that each
  developer has or keeping DNS up to date
- complete install requests for porter chroots
- maintaining the Debian Machine Usage Policies (DMUP), within the
  following limits:
  - the DMUP cannot directly cause the expulsion of a developer from the
project; it can however propose the developer for expulsion to DAM,
on the basis of DMUP violation
  - changes to the DMUP shall be announced to the debian-devel-announce
mailing list at least 2 months in advance with respect to when they
are supposed to become effective

All the above information, with a reference to the present delegation,
will shortly be available at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA.


Merci d'avance d'envoyer ce texte,
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Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-19 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 21:01:08 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:54:04PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
  This one time, at band camp, Simon Paillard said:
   We already have a network of almost 400 packages mirrors around the world.
   Using http.d.n, provides the CDN layer (not as much as optimal as 
   anycast), so
   we don't need to sort ourselves peering issues etc.
  
  The mirrors do a very good job of being near to our users in most cases
  (we have had some difficulty with things like security mirror coverage,
  but that's not your issue).  I know many people are happy with http.d.n,
  but you have to understand that it's not the same thing at all as a CDN -
  it's a single host, and it's in a single location.  Time to first byte
  will still suffer if you're coming from Australia.
 
 Obviously, it's due to current unsponsored deployment.
 * For a package of several kB, the first bytes (actually ~800B, measured) are
   not meaningful
 * Our (mirrors@d.o) is to have http.d.n made official so that we can have an
 instance like on each continent, then use GeoDNS, like security.d.o mirrors, 
 to
 achieve 2 goals: avoid SPOF, be closer to users.

in long term, i would like to get rid of our GeoDNS setup.

Martin

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Re: Report from GanetiCon 2013 in Athens

2013-09-13 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Mon Sep 09, 2013 at 11:38:45 +0300, vangelis mouhtsis wrote:
 Hi,
 I live in North Greece Thessaloniki and here we have the biggest Debian
 community.
 I'm wondering why was non announcement for that event at all.
 Or maybe it is a natural behavor?

I think you just missed it. There were quite a good number of
announcements (Google for GanetiCon). Also i announced a few days in
advance that i will go there.

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Report from GanetiCon 2013 in Athens

2013-09-09 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

as announced in [0] Faidon and I attended GanetiCon 2013 in Athens
on behalf of the Debian Systems Administration Team (DSA).
Please find below my report on the conference.

Agenda also all slides of the conference can be found at [1].

I arrived in Athens on Monday afternoon and joined a Team from Google
visiting Acropolis and Athens downtown.

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/08/msg00065.html
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/ganeticon/


Conference Day 1

Day one of the conference (hosted by Skrutz) started with an extended
workshop on the new and upcoming features. Of special interest for the
DSA team will be the upcoming new features in hroller(1) - like 
rebooting a cluster in a coordinated way- and the possibility of
clustering clusters (which reduces some administration overhead for
the DSA team).

Also very helpful is the new extStorage feature in Ganeti 2.7,
which provides a tighter integration of shared SAN devices to Ganeti. This
will reduce a lot amount of administration overhead for the DSA team at
our Bytemark and UBCECE data centres.

After lunch, Skrutz, Debian (Faidon and I) and OSUOSL gave their user
experience reports. Skrutz gave a deep insight in moving their platforms 
between datacenters using Ganeti and the challenges they experienced.
Faidon and I gave an insight talk about the current Debian setup and
how we moved from libvirt to Ganeti. Lance Albertson from OSUOSL showed
us the progress of his current version of the Ganeti web manager and
gave some ideas on how instances could get deployed more dynamicly.


Conference Day 2

Day two continued with user experience reports. GRNET reported about 
their own implementation of a Ganeti web manager, the ~okeanos Public
Cloud Service and the challenges they experienced due to the speed 
of the Queue and RAPI Daemon. 

I took the opportunity that having access the Ganeti developers presented
to upgrade Ganeti on our clusters[2] from version 2.5 to 2.7.
During that upgrade, a design bug was detected and reported upstream. It has 
been
scheduled to be fixed in the next version.

While the afternoon was mostly about design discussion regarding Location
Awareness in Ganeti, Ganeti Job Queue Control and improvement in the
network management of Ganeti, I took the time to file several [3][4][5]
enhancement request bugs, and started writing a patch for [5].

[2] http://lists.debian.org/20130904073922.ga13...@ftbfs.de
[3] https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/issues/detail?id=562
[4] https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/issues/detail?id=565
[5] https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/issues/detail?id=566


Conference Day 3

Day three started with a discussion about reducing the need of the
root user within Ganeti. Several suggestions have been made, from
using sudo for all the calls that need root to chroot'ing the daemons.
Also discussed was the need to address the need to monitor ganeti nodes
but to avoid spawning the monitoring processes frequently.

The second discussion was about Deploying  Managing Instance Images and
how to improve the status quo. This discussion was quite heated and no
real solution that suits all needs had been found until the lunch break.

I needed to leave the conference at that point, as I needed to catch my
flight back to Germany. Skroutz and Google talked about Build System 
Overhaul and Upgrades and GRNET about Disks as Independent Entities
after I left.  Maybe Guido Trotter, part of the Google Ganeti team, can 
give us more details about that.


Conclusion
--
All in all it was a very successful conference, which gave me good
insight into Ganeti development.  It was helpful to meet all the
developers and contributors in person and share the all the ideas and 
thoughts that are floating around.

I would like to thank everyone who donated to the Debian Project and
made it possible for me to attend.

Cheers,
Martin
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Visiting GanetiCon2013

2013-08-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

i will be going to GanetiCon2013[1], which will take place in Athens
next week, on behalf of the Debian System Administration Team (DSA).

DSA has deployed Ganeti to all of the new KVM virtualization servers and
thus we are interested in its further development. I will be giving a
talk about Debian's experience of Ganeti (user story).

Cheers,
Martin

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/ganeticon/
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Re: ries.debian.org decided to go fishing

2013-08-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sun Aug 04, 2013 at 23:07:51 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Am Dienstag, den 09.07.2013, 18:30 +0200 schrieb Martin Zobel-Helas:
  On Sat Jul 06, 2013 at 17:35:31 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
   In the mean time there is already work in progress in setting up a new
   VM at our hosting at Bytemark that will host the above mentioned
   services. We will announce further progress to the debian-project
   mailing list.
  
  A new VM is in place, it is called coccia.debian.org. Beside the website
  generation stuff of backports.debian.org, everything should be in place and
  working. 
 
 Thanks!
 
  If you miss anything on the new host, please contact
  debian-ad...@lists.debian.org.
 
 would it easily be possible to restore my home directory and crontab
 from what was on ries to coccia?

No. We do not backup home directories.


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DSA Team Meeting minutes from 20130612 1500Z on #debian-admin/OFTC

2013-07-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
*present*
Faidon Liambotis (paravoid)
Hector Oron (zumbi)
Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel)
Peter Palfrader (weasel, chairing)
Tollef Fog Heen (Mithrandir)

*absent with regrets*
Luca Filipozzi (luca)

*absent without regrets*
Stephen Gran (sgran)


Minutes taken by: zobel/paravoid


= open purchases =
 o Status of adding disks to beethoven (weasel, zobel)
   - 8 disks have been bought, delivered and installed
   - we are experiencing hardware issues with the backplane that causes
 the disks to be rejected 
   - zobel and weasel are in contact with the vendor
   - we're now on the 3rd replacement and they keep being broken
 o Status of buying disks for hosting location bytemark
   - We received approval from the DPL for buying 4TB disks
   - Mithrandir voluntered to get the first disk  coordinate installation
   - once that's done and we've confirmed that the shelf can accept the
 larger disks, we will purchase the other 24 disks.
 o Status of franck.debian.org carepacks (luca)
   - luca is in contact with the US/Canadian vendor 'SoftChoice'
   - ftp-master is currently not covered by a carepack

= Status report on running/finished projects =
== finished ==
 o munin (weasel)
   - moved away from spohr
   - is much more performant as the old installation
   - now using munin-async for wheezy hosts
   - migration done
 o archive qualification / DSA concerns
   - concerns from DSA have been sent to Release Team
 - http://lists.debian.org/20130622172644.ga32...@ftbfs.de
   - no remarkable feedback
   - needs followup for ia64 (Mithrandir)

== ongoing ==
 o SSO progress (zobel)
   - no progress has been made since DSA Sprint 2013
   - DACS config needs some cleanup in puppet to be more useful
   - enrico volunteered for nm.debian.org being guinea pig for new
 config
   - alioth integration next up, preparation on alioth side done
   Action: zobel to clean up config and do admin documentation
 o debian.org mail move (sgran+Mithrandir)
   - DDs with unclear mail settings got informed. no bounces received.
   - given sufficient time (~one month), shouldn't worry too
 much for breaking them.
   - no progress has been made since DSA Sprint 2013
   Action: sgran and Mithrandir to implement local part
 extension handling when forwarding to mail to master,
 putting aliases into puppet, then switching over MX.
 o openstack (sgran)
   - presumably no progress has been made since DSA Sprint 2013
 o Bytemark move (zobel)
   - hoster wants to move the blade center and the storage arrays to a
 different datacenter
   - move has been postponed by hoster due to upstream issues
   - Bytemark has been informed that move cannot occur in the weeks
 surrounding or during DebConf13
   Action: Bytemark will inform DSA Team about new date
 o new ud status (luca)
   - no new progress has been made since DSA Sprint 2013
 o outsourcing DNS slave servers (paravoid)
   - evaluate the technical features and decide go/no-go
   - defer discussions about cost recovery (with DPL) and
 more SPI projects (with DNSco) after the evaluation
   Action: waiting on trial account
 o commercial SSL/HTTPS certificates for debian.org (luca)
   - some progress made in cooperation with Joerg Jaspert
   Action: luca to follow up with gandi to initiate zone transfers
 o moving ns4 away from orff.debian.org (weasel)
   - goal is to move to bind 9.9 and inline autosigning
   - blocked on having a recent-ish bind9 in unstable
   - needs writing new scripts to rotate keys
   - when done, move all our zones to a new ns4 primary (man-da?)
   Action: wait for newer bind packages, write key rotation scripts,
   test and evaluate with a zone that is not debian.org.


= new projects that got assigned to owners =

paravoid:
 o  HW purchase for hosting location GRNET
   - talk with GRNET
   - talk with vendor

zobel:
 o service guidelines
   - draft a text and share the link

Mithrandir:
 o CDN plan
   - Unanswered questions:
 - rsync, how to handle?
 - mail for security.d.o
 - anycasted IP?

zumbi:
 o arm OOB status
   - arm machines at arm ltd. moved to different server room
 - still no remote power/serial console
   - coordinate w/ Sledge/mhy for console switches
 o track shipping status for four cyclade console servers currently
   located at schultmc owned by debian

weasel:
 o with merikanto, englund and lindberg gone, beethoven is the only
   point of access to the sil mgmt VLAN.  Not good if we need to get to
   beethoven's OOB.
   Action: eysler and eder to be put on the mgmt VLAN

= new projects without an assigned owner =
 o SSOT (single source of thruth) [possibly luca post ud]
 o ravel move
   - identify services on ravel
   - inform service owners
   - move services

= Other business =
 o RT triage/call for help
   weasel mentioned lots of tickets are sitting in our RT queues and not
   getting much attention and love.  Appeal to fellow admins to look into
   RT and pick up tickets.

   It was pointed

Re: ries.debian.org decided to go fishing

2013-07-09 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Jul 06, 2013 at 17:35:31 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
 In the mean time there is already work in progress in setting up a new
 VM at our hosting at Bytemark that will host the above mentioned
 services. We will announce further progress to the debian-project
 mailing list.

A new VM is in place, it is called coccia.debian.org. Beside the website
generation stuff of backports.debian.org, everything should be in place and
working. 

If you miss anything on the new host, please contact
debian-ad...@lists.debian.org.

Cheers,
Martin
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Re: Report from the DSA Team Sprint 2013-06

2013-06-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Fri Jun 21, 2013 at 14:57:09 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
  o) User and Group Management:
 Last year we estimated the number of active shell accounts to be on
 the order of 50.000 over all users/hosts.  We still would like to
 disable unused accounts as described in last year's summary mail
 but nothing has happened to actually implement that.  Help welcome.
 
 What kind of skills are required to help with this?

in general: python know-how.
in detail: We need to track users over all hosts, collect that
information somewhere and need to integrate that data into 'ud'. 

  o) Configuration Management:
 The DSA team uses several tools to help them maintain and monitor
 Debian's infrastructure and to keep track of what systems there
 are, how to access them if things go wrong, when to purchase new
 warranty contracts and so on.  Currently information is kept in a
 large number of different and not cross-referenced systems,
 including the puppet git repository, LDAP, the nagios
 configuration, our password database and a spreadsheet file.
 
 The distributed nature of this setup makes it difficult to get a
 good, consistent overview and to give other teams like the
 auditor/asset tracking folks the information they require to do
 their job.
 
 We agreed upon one desired solution:  We would like to have one
 location, presumably a git repository, that has all the information
 we have about a VM or piece of hardware.  Parts of that data would
 have to be encrypted to privileged information, but the majority of
 it should be available publicly.  Systems like LDAP, our nagios and
 parts of the puppet configuration should then get the data they
 need from this new single source of truth.  This is going to be a
 lot of work and it will probably take a long time to get there.  If
 you would like to help please contact us.
 
 I am involved with a project called theforeman which might be useful
 as it integrates tightly with Puppet. http://theforeman.org/ It's
 currently not part of Debian, but the project does build nightly debs,
 and there is a general will to get forman into Debian. (PPAMAIN will
 be a real big help here, since it's a fairly fast moving project and
 having multiple version support within a single stable lifetime would
 be strongly desired.)
 
 Although it also can handle full provisioning of baremetal, VMs, and
 cloud instances, I think the big win will be its puppet integration.
 It provides an inventory service (central database of facts),
 customizable metadata, puppet ENC facilities, support for multiple
 Datacenters, RBAC, option LDAP integration for authentication, a rich
 query/search interface, and robust puppet reporting capabilities. (The
 Foreman team impressed the audience last PuppetConf when they
 announced that they were the first ENC to support parameterized
 classes.)
 
 Another nice thing about Foreman is that it supports all versions of
 Puppet going back to Puppet 0.24.4.
 
 It's also very automatable since it has a REST API and CLI.
 
 Bonus for me is that even though RedHat is now funding much of the
 ongoing development, there is no single copyright holder, and it is
 licensed GPLv3+. (So clearly DFSG compliant.)
 
 I'm not sure if a tool like this fits into your plans for a single
 source of truth since you mentioned git. But I strongly encourage you
 to consider it, and would be happy to answer any questions you might
 have, or discuss offline in IRC (bgupta@oftc).

As alreday disussed on IRC yesterday, we are open to it, if you help us
deploying it and if you can send patches for our config management. I
see the problem that foreman will only scale well four our big hosting
locations, where we can use the full set of features of foreman.

Cheers,
Martin
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Re: Delegations

2013-05-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sun May 05, 2013 at 04:09:19 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
 Additionally, I need to do the bits.d.o delegation, and check the status
 on a possible addition to policy editors.

Can you explain to me why this needs a delegation?

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Re: moving (old-)master.debian.org to a (new-)master.debian.org 

2013-02-17 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 19:40:37 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
 Before we start losing data (we already lost one disk), DSA is moving 
 master's services to a new machine. The new machine is already setup, 
 but not all the data has been moved. DSA will do a final copy of the
 data (YES, we do copy your $HOME) on the 2013-FEB-17 starting at 10:00Z
 (UTC).

The move of master.debian.org is finished now. 

If you experience any problems with the new master.debian.org, please
contact debian-ad...@lists.debian.org.

Best Regards,

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Re: moving (old-)master.debian.org to a (new-)master.debian.org 

2013-02-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 19:40:37 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
 The new machine is reachable via
 
 Host:  new-master.debian.org
 IPv4:  82.195.75.110
 IPv6:  2001:41b8:202:deb:216:36ff:fe40:4001
 SSSFP: 41:01:ae:37:3c:07:14:d6:f8:c5:4a:93:23:d3:e7:43

I was asked what SSHFP stands for. I mean SSH fingerprint with it.

You can either trust my above fingerprint, or copy over
/var/lib/misc/ssh_known_hosts from any debian.org machine to
~/.ssh/debian_hosts on your system and then configure your ssh client to
use it.

| Host *.debian.org
| User $YourUserHere
| VerifyHostKeyDNS yes
| UserKnownHostsFile ~/.ssh/debian_hostkeys
| IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_debian


If you have a working DNSSEC setup for your local resolver, you could
also trust the fingerprints we publish in DNS.

| zobel@kvasir:~% dig +short -t sshfp new-master.debian.org
| 1 1 BC3F0910A4FDED0AE5584D8775CA47DE9263E89F


I hope this clarifies it.

Regards,
Martin
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Re: What is this? john under cron.d??? Debian Squeeze

2012-11-13 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sun Nov 11, 2012 at 18:55:07 -0800, Jamie M wrote:
 Just noticed an unfamiliar file in my Debian Squeeze: is called
 john found in cron.d.
 
 Does anyone know if this is a security risk, when all of a sudden I
 notice this file?
 
 Thank you and anything anyone can add is appreciated.


zobel@kvasir:~% apt-cache show john
Package: john
Version: 1.7.8-1
Installed-Size: 472
Maintainer: Ruben Molina rmol...@udea.edu.co
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (= 2.7), john-data (= 1.7.8-1)
Suggests: wordlist
Description-en: active password cracking tool
 John the Ripper is a tool designed to help systems administrators to
 find weak (easy to guess or crack through brute force) passwords, and
 even automatically mail users warning them about it, if it is desired.
 .
 Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on
 various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and
 Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed
 patches.
Homepage: http://www.openwall.com/john/
Description-md5: 2ffcaf0da9fa0a8266bfe4aa906d4742
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
 scope::utility, security::authentication, use::checking
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/j/john/john_1.7.8-1_amd64.deb
Size: 193790
MD5sum: fe6f0bdb3fce58fcaef0f8cdb91df830
SHA1: c2395aff823d084a4718bcd82b10e5839e56dfc9
SHA256: d502de8591d908c9f62a666fa17d96b25691f0d03295422a0d9aa9ec481e7f07

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Re: man-da maintenance window at August 21st

2012-08-17 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Fri Aug 17, 2012 at 16:05:37 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Our friendly hosting partners at the Metropolitan Area Network Darmstadt
 (man-da) have advised us of maintenance work in their network
 infrastructure being conducted next week.
 
 We will need to change the firewall setup at man-da at next week's
 Tuesday.  Therefore, all of our systems at man-da might be unavailable
 for a short time on August 22nd around noon UTC.

Gah, this should have been August 21st.

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Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sun Jun 24, 2012 at 13:24:07 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
 Hi!
 
 * Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org [2012-06-22 23:01:56 CEST]:
  The current practice for debian.net entries is that they are directly
  entered in the debian.net zone as 3rd-level records. I am seeking
  comments on a proposal to alter this practice.
 
  In theory I agree that the policy change makes much sense.  Practically
 though it will cause some trouble for a decision I took years ago
 (2004):  In absence of a better solution at that time, for the xblast
 project, we settled to use xblast.debian.net as the central server for
 network games which is set within the code.

i am quite aware that we can't change the debian.net policy overnight.

Cheers,
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Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-23 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Jun 23, 2012 at 16:31:24 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
 On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:50:00AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
  eg love.debian.net was great (why is it down?). and so are/were
  others, please 
 
 If only the username was encoded in that host we'd all know who to ask...  ;)

dig +short -ttxt love.debian.net

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Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-23 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Jun 23, 2012 at 12:45:02 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I think you are combining two different issues: debian.net namespace and how 
 new projects are developed/introduced.
 
 For the debian.net namespace I really don't care if for personal things 
 (such as a personal website) are to be hosted under $entry.$uid.debian.net. 
 I don't care mostly because I find that such uses are better disallowed.
 Nowadays one can find all sorts of things with a debian.net subdomain that I 
 feel ashamed that it carries the debian.net name.

I have spoken to quite a lot of lay users, none of them knew the
difference between debian.net and debian.org. So, yes, maybe we should
stop using the debian.net subdomain for things like this.

 As for the other part, i.e. project services, I really think they should be 
 on the 3rd level: $service.debian.net.

I have a problem here. Giving my above sentence, why should we use the
debian.net subdomain here? Please give me a definition of project
services. When do you call it a project service? Given the fact that
lay users do not understand the fact between debian.net and debian.org
they will not understand that some of those services are official
services, and some are services in development (or incubation).


I also don't like them being called 
 unofficial. If I, as a contributing member and DD, work on a project or 
 service *for* Debian and it is called unofficial, I'm better off moving onto 
 some other place where they actually welcome new developments.
 Call them in incubation if you want (and like I proposed on IRC.) That at 
 least sounds like there is some sort of association and not some unknown foo 
 bar thingy that somebody happens to have put under a debian.net subdomain.

 If you and others agree that there are two different topics that should be 
 discussed and their respectiv policy drafted, then I would be happy to join 
 the discussion. I'm all open for it.

Maybe we can establish a process, wherein we define criteria that need
to be met to be called a incubation project. I have not yet spoken with
all DSA members, but i personaly would be happy to host them below a
incubator.debian.org zone. This will also give the projects in
incubation some guidelines to get moved to debian.org hardware at a
later point. Please keep in mind, that if you want you project/service
to be run under the debian.org zone, those services need to run on DSA
administrated hardware.
 
 If, however, the whole thing is nevertheless seen as only one topic, then I 
 must say I profoundly object to the proposal.

I just want to get rid of the plain usage (3rd level) of the debian.net
zone. This zone only confuses most of our users.


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RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

The current practice for debian.net entries is that they are directly
entered in the debian.net zone as 3rd-level records. I am seeking
comments on a proposal to alter this practice.

While the current practice is useful for the introduction of unofficial
project services, it may involve certain risks. One risk is that
outsiders can not and will not distinguish between debian.net and
debian.org entries. Another risk is that those unofficial services will
stall if the maintainer who 'owns' those entries leaves the project. We
are also observing domain-squatting in the debian.net zone.

Therefore, I would like to propose the following change in the
debian.net entry policy:

* Going forward, new user-associated debian.net entries will be added as
  4th-level (or 5th-level, see last section) records in the debian.net
  zone in the form of $entry.$uid.debian.net, where $uid is your debian
  login name. For example, if I desired to introduce a 'foobar' entry,
  then it would be added to the debian.net zone as
  foobar.zobel.debian.net. The insertion of $uid would be automatic: you
  would not need to add it in the mail you submit to ud-mailgate.

* Existing user-associated 3rd-level entries will remain for a
  transitional period of, let's say, one year.  Corresponding 4th-level
  entries will be reserved to allow for transition.  During the
  transition period, you may modify your 3rd-level entries, transition
  them to 4th-level entries, transition them to a role (see next
  section), or delete them. At the end of the transitional period, any
  remaining user-associated 3rd-level entries and corresponding
  4th-level reservations would be removed.

* New 3rd-level debian.net entries can still can be added, but would
  need to be role-associated (eg. qa, release-team, etc.) rather than
  user-associated. For this, I propose that we use this RFC to define
  some criteria which would need to be satisfied in order to have a
  role-associated 3rd-level entry be created.

* An 'unofficial' role-associated 3rd-level debian.net service can
  become an 'official' 3rd-level debian.org service. Again, I propose
  that we use this RFC to define some criteria which would need to be
  satisfied.

* Alternately, we may wish to put unofficial services under
  $entry.beta.debian.net and user-associated entries under
  $entry.$uid.user.debian.net so that 3rd-level entries in debian.net
  and debian.org point only to offical services. This would remove all
  ambiguity and matches what other organizations have done when dealing
  with official entries in their .com, .net, and .org zones.

There is nothing carved into stone yet! I just want to hear your
comments on this. The key point is that lay users will not understand
the difference between debian.net and debian.org, and we should not
require that they do. The purpose of this RFC is to seek comment on how
to address this concern and the above proposal is perhaps one such way.

Finally, please note that this is not specifically due to the recent
http.debian.net conversation, although it did remind me that I needed to
write up my thoughts. The concerns regarding debian.net vs debian.org
had been expressed at DebConf 2011 and at DSA Sprint 2012; these
concerns are not new and the above proposal should not be interpreted as
a reaction to the introduction of http.debian.net. I want to
simultaneously support the ingenuity of our community while avoiding
confusion amongst our lay users.

Thanks for your time,

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Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries

2012-06-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 23:23:34 +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
 By the way, as a random note: The Apache Software Foundation requires
 that new projects go through Incubator which follows a similar principle

if we end up with a proper policy, why not do a thing like this in Debian too?

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DONE: scheduled maintenance of lists.debian.org

2012-04-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Apr 21, 2012 at 13:13:30 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
 Hi,
 
 we are planing to move lists.debian.org to a different machine this
 weekend.  Therefore expect several short outages of the lists.debian.org
 services - we try to keep them as short as possible.

we are done with the move, and only fix minor issues now. You shouldn't
see any outages any more.

Thank you for your patience,
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Re: DONE: scheduled maintenance of lists.debian.org

2012-04-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sun Apr 22, 2012 at 16:17:19 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
 Hi, 
 
 On Sat Apr 21, 2012 at 13:13:30 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
  Hi,
  
  we are planing to move lists.debian.org to a different machine this
  weekend.  Therefore expect several short outages of the lists.debian.org
  services - we try to keep them as short as possible.
 
 we are done with the move, and only fix minor issues now. You shouldn't
 see any outages any more.

it looks we lost 186 mails to lists' webarchive. i currently try to find
out which those are and feed them back in. Lets see how lucky i will be
to find them.


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db.debian.org with new layout

2012-01-06 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

with todays update of userdir-ldap-cgi, i have applied the 'spacefun'
theme from Kalle, we applied to the debian website (www.debian.org) also
to db.debian.org.

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Re: new DSA trainee

2011-07-28 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Wed Jul 27, 2011 at 22:35:04 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Debian Sysadmins added a new trainee:
 
 Please welcome Faidon Liambotis (paravoid) and load him with work!

as we are on that topic, please also welcome Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)
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new DSA trainee

2011-07-27 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

Debian Sysadmins added a new trainee:

Please welcome Faidon Liambotis (paravoid) and load him with work!

Cheers,
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Re: Linking from Debian to Siemens

2011-06-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Emanuel, 

On Wed Jun 29, 2011 at 17:00:07 +0200, SBT WEB wrote:
 Dear support team of Debian
 
 We, the Webmaster Team of Siemens Building Technologies, came across
 your website in the scope of our backlink analysis.
 
 First of all, we would like to thank you for the valuable linking from
 http://www.debian.org/users/com/sbtsiemens.fr.html to Siemens Building
 Technologies.
 
 As a result of our analysis we realized that on
 http://www.debian.org/users/com/sbtsiemens.fr.html a legacy URL is
 communicated. Therefore we would very much appreciate if you could
 optimize the linking the following way:
 
 Current: http://www.sbt.siemens.com
 New: http://www.siemens.com/buildingtechnologies
 
 We very much appreciate your cooperation and would like to thank you in
 advance for your effort. 

I have updated your link on our website upon your request, but it might
take ~4h from now to show up on all webservers.
 
 If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact us
 (web@siemens.com).

yes. In the text we use there (provided by R. Meier of your company) it
says: 'workstations running Debian sarge'. Time flies by and maybe
this information provided there might not be up to date any more. It
might be good to get a bit of help from your side to get the text
updated a bit.

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Re: Announcing upcoming events; something missing?

2011-01-25 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Tue Jan 25, 2011 at 15:19:54 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
 Hi!
 
 Am 20.01.2011 13:10, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl:
 
  Is there anything missing?  Please speak up now, so we can still add
  your event to the announcement (and our website, FWIW).
 
 Announcement is ready for review at
 svn+ssh://svn.alioth.debian.org/svn/publicity/announcements/en/2011/2011-01-26-upcoming-events.wml
 scheduled to be released tomorrow (as one of the events has already
 started :( )

added a link to CLT2011 homepage.

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rt.d.o upgraded

2010-12-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

DSA just upgraded rt.d.o to a new version (3.8.8) and moved it to a new
machine (which also makes this service IPv6 enabled).

Please check if everything still works as expected and give feedback to
the DSA team.

Thanks,
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Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
[ Please note that this is my very personal opinion and does not 
neccesarily need to cover the opinion of any of the teams I am in. ]

Dear planet folks,

I have been made aware that people use Debian resources for personal
financial gain using the planet.d.o syndication platform, by for
instance including 'flattr' links and images in the text present on
planet.

Furthermore there are reports of webbugs in some feeds syndicated  on
planet, or things that systematically leak browsing behaviour to third
parties by including images directly from these sides.

I think these occurrences might conflict with the rules that govern use
of Debian resources. At the very least I consider them to be of
extremely bad taste.

Therefor I ask you, the maintainers of planet.d.o, to please draft a
policy or set of guidelines that will prevent such abuse.  Violation of
this policy should probably be grounds for removal from
planet.debian.org.

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Re: Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop

2010-08-31 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

 Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop

 The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Frans Pop (fjp)
 died on August 20th.

 :'(
 Do we have any more information on Frans's death?

We had contact with his family. We would like to respect their privacy,
and not discuss about details in public.

Cheers,
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DSA meeting during September 3rd and 5th, Munich

2010-08-01 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

members of the Debian Systems Administration Team will meet in Munich,
Germany during weekend September 3rd to 5th.

Our agenda currently lists:
 * Extensions to / future of ud-ldap 
 * General automatization optimization
 * Mail infrastructure 
 * Monitoring infrastructure 
 * Brainstorm for DMUP 2.0

We are happy to meet with local Debian crowd during the weekend.

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Draft of the Final version of DMUP version 1.1.2

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

find attached the final draft of the new DMUP version 1.1.2 to be
published on debian-devel-annou...@l.d.o on Sunday, May 9th, which would
mean the new version then would become effective on July 4th, 2010.

A full log of changes can be found at [1] and the patch-view can be
found at [2].

Cheers,
Martin

[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/DMUP.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/v1.1.2
[2] 
http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/DMUP.git;a=commitdiff;hp=ce85a966ae8e0c3476cc6309a35fbcccabdd90c7;h=65c613736a75e4fa5e7b08d3b95fc4235719

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Debian Machine Usage Policies

   Version 1.1.2
0. This version of the Debian Machine Usage Policies becomes effective
   on $DATE1 and supersedes all previous versions. It was announced on
   $DATE2
1. Introduction
   This document describes the policies for using Debian machines
   and all rules surrounding those.
   In short:
  + The Debian Systems Administration Team will do whatever is
necessary to keep all machines and services working and
running in a secure fashion.
  + Don't by any wilful, deliberate, reckless or unlawful act
interfere with the work of another developer or jeopardize the
integrity of data networks, computing equipment, systems
programs, or other stored information.
  + Don't use Debian Facilities for private financial gain or for
commercial purposes, including consultancy or any other work
outside the scope of official duties or functions for the time
being, without specific authorization to do so.
  + Don't use Debian Facilities for unlawful activities,
including, but not limited to, software piracy.
   This document contains two parts: policies and guidelines. The
   rules in the policies are binding and may not be violated. The
   guidelines specify rules that may be violated if necessary but we
   would rather one did not.
2. General statements
 1. Used abbreviations
   o DSA - Debian Systems Administration Team
   o DMUP - Debian Machine Usage Policy (this document)
   o DPL - Debian Project Leader
   o DAM - Debian Account Managers
 2. Privilege
Access to Debian Facilities is a privilege, not a right or a
commercial service, and DSA reserves the right to revoke this
privilege at any time, without prior notice. An explanation
will be given within 48 hours.
 3. Guarantees
There is no guarantee of service. Although DSA will do its best
to assure that everything functions perfectly, they can't give
any guarantees.
 4. Privacy
If necessary to keep machines working properly the DSA is
allowed to edit user files. (for example modifying .forward
files to break mail loops.)
3. Penalties
   If someone violates the rules set in this document they will be
   subjected to a penalty. The penalty depends on the number of
   previous violations and the offense involved.
 1. First offense
  1. The accounts of the offender will be suspended and access
 will not be available.
  2. The offender will be required to contact DSA and convince them
 that there will be no further breaches of the DMUP by the 
offender.
  3. If the offender fails to contact DSA within 14 days, DSA
 will suspend the corresponding account and propose to DAM the
 expulsion of the offender from the Debian project. If the 
offender
 has announced they will be on vacation in this time frame,
 this period will be extended with the announced duration of
 the vacation.
  4. If the offender is expelled from the project they can
 register to become a maintainer again after a period of a
 month. The offense will remain on record.
 2. Second offense
  1. The offenders accounts will be suspended immediately and
 DSA will propose to DAM the expulsion of the offender from
 the Debian project.
  2. If the offender does not file for an appeal within the
 designated time frame the account is terminated.
 3. Publication
  1. The offense and the penalty will be announced to Debian
 developers only.
  2. Should it, in the sole opinion of the Debian project
 leader, be considered necessary, then a public

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

2010-05-03 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Mon May 03, 2010 at 10:14:27 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
 This one time, at band camp, Jeremiah Foster said:
  So it seems like there are two processes here; expulsion and deletion.
  Expulsion is a political process, deletion is a technical process. One
  entity may have authority over the expulsion and another over the
  deletion. Am I right in assuming that the DAM is in charge of the
  expulsion process and the DSA is in charge of deletion?
 
 Nothing is deleted, but s/deletion/locking/g would be correct, yes.

Just that we (DSA) may lock accounts without needing to ask DAM first,
see 3.1.1 and 3.2.1 of the DMUP.

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Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

2010-05-02 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

the Debian Project Leader recently asked DSA in his delegation[1] to fix
a flaw in the current version of the DMUP, the fact that expulsions are
DAM's domain, and not our's.

I took the opportunity to also fix some other minor stuff in the current
version of the document. Please note that this is a first draft, not the
final version, which needs to be announced as per delegation to
debian-devel-announce.

Summary of changes: The Debian Systems Administration Team will do
whatever is necessary to keep all machines and services running.

Or to say it with someone else's words from IRC:
DSA has to look after this crap, so please don't be a dick.

Find attached my proposed changes as commit log, as diff to the current
version and as full text of the new version.

I started mainaining the new version in git on
http://db.debian.org/git/DMUP.git, copied over frequently to
http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/DMUP.git;a=summary (gitweb frontend).

Cheers,
Martin

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg00016.html
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Better wording for §0
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commit f473e656a58efa062b44bca68c6b6d38f9886fd5
Author: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org
Date:   Sun May 2 16:10:09 2010 +0200

expulsions are DAM's domain

Signed-off-by: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org

commit abcc73391e77840da60a5d9fcee81ec8fb05e1b6
Author: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org
Date:   Sun May 2 15:38:12 2010 +0200

Add a stanza about the intention of this document and DSA

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commit 9965a489dcf11d3b0b6182a15b380e5caef19481
Author: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org
Date:   Sun May 2 15:03:55 2010 +0200

s/DSA's/DSA/

Signed-off-by: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org

commit a704b18213b3ecfa2ac69fef522af9f1f7032d7b
Author: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org
Date:   Sun May 2 14:43:59 2010 +0200

Avoid first/second person wherever possible

commit 84fdb6be7c271fb03a051faee4def6a8f5302535
Author: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org
Date:   Sun May 2 14:31:37 2010 +0200

Move 2.4 to 2.1, as used abbreviations should be mentioned before being used

Signed-off-by: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org

commit b249343ade59410dd4a2d515b6f70f69d03cd54d
Author: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org
Date:   Sun May 2 13:46:11 2010 +0200

Add a stanza about the version of this document.

Rational: Newer versions need to be announced as per DSA delegation stated
in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg00016.html
We also want that prior versions of that document become invalid when the
new version becomes valid.

Signed-off-by: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org

commit eb4a1e7215b535bda6a447d72a7769bfc4f7
Author: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org
Date:   Sun May 2 13:33:50 2010 +0200

start new version of DMUP

commit ce85a966ae8e0c3476cc6309a35fbcccabdd90c7
Author: Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org
Date:   Sun May 2 13:18:36 2010 +0200

initial version taken from cvs.d.o, Revision 1.7
diff --git a/DMUP b/DMUP
index 73312cf..8aba26e 100644
--- a/DMUP
+++ b/DMUP
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 Debian Machine Usage Policies
 
-   Version 1.1.1
+   Version 1.1.2
+0. This version of the Debian Machine Usage Policies becomes effective
+   on $DATE1 and supersedes all previous versions. It was announced on
+   $DATE2
 1. Introduction
This document describes the policies for using Debian machines
and all rules surrounding those.
In short:
+  + The Debian Systems Administration Team will do whatever is
+necessary to keep all machines and services working and
+running in a secure fashion.
   + Don't by any wilful, deliberate, reckless or unlawful act
 interfere with the work of another developer or jeopardize the
 integrity of data networks, computing equipment, systems
@@ -20,23 +26,24 @@ Debian Machine Usage Policies
guidelines specify rules that may be violated if necessary but we
would rather one did not.
 2. General statements
- 1. Privilege
+ 1. Used abbreviations
+   o DSA - Debian Systems Administration Team
+   o DMUP - Debian Machine Usage Policy (this document)
+   o DPL - Debian Project Leader
+   o DAM - Debian Account Managers
+ 2. Privilege
 Access to Debian Facilities is a privilege, not a right

Re: teams.debian.{net,org}

2010-02-17 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Wed Feb 17, 2010 at 18:29:35 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
 What's up with teams.debian.net? Looks like the server is down.
 
 Has it been abandoned (if yes, what's happened to the archives there)?
 
 Or has it maybe been moved to teams.debian.org, which does exist on liszt 
 but with a home page that does not give any useful info.
 
 Is it still possible to create a new @teams.debian.{net,org} mailing list? 
 Who's the best contact for that?


mailing list archive (http) of teams.d.n down, smtp still alive. will
see what i can do the next days.

Cheers
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[RFH] ferm integration into dsa-puppet.git

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

the Debian Project currently runs about 100 machines[1] all over the
world with different services. Those are mainly managed by the Debian
System Administration team[2]. For central configuration management we
use Puppet[3]. The Puppet config we use is publicly available at [4].

Our next goal is to have a more or less central configuration of our
iptables rules on all those machines. Some of the machines have
home-brewed firewall scripts, some use ferm.


Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to provide us with a new
dsa-puppet git branch with a module ferm that we can roll out to all
our hosts. 

It might want to use information from the other puppet modules like
apache2_security_mirror or buildd to decide which incoming traffic
should be allowed.

DSA will of course provide you with all necessary further information.
 

Cheers,

Martin

[1] http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA
[3] http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
[4] http://git.debian.org/?p=mirror/dsa-puppet.git

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Re: Using project resources for blends and non-free

2010-01-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 21:03:45 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
 
  We would like to do move the wanna-build databases (and all logs for
  these builds) soon, so I would like to know if anyone is unhappy about
  it?
 
 For non-free I guess/assume you keep the needs manual approval before
 package is build automagically style? Then it should even be ok to
 build on .d.o machines (provided it doesnt interrupt more important
 things, like anything else build :) ).

As you know one can prioritize distributions, as we already do for eg.
stable-security over unstable.

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Re: Project machines upgrade

2009-01-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Wed Jan 28, 2009 at 13:03:15 +, Martin Meredith wrote:
 I think this would have been nice on d-d-a too :D

that is what debian-infrastructure-announce is for.


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Re: lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 14:19:28 +0100, tamas.garamsz...@polimerieuropa.com 
wrote:
 Dear Debian Team!
 
 When will be the Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny distribution release 
 available?

When it's ready. :-)

There are currently 101 release critical bugs concerning the next
release, so we are getting closer, but it's hard to tell. Maybe 4w from
now, maybe half a year from now.

Greetings
Martin

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Debconf Group Photos needed

2009-01-15 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

for designing a poster I am searching for group photos of the following
Debconfs:

* Debconf 2
* Debconf 3
* Debconf 4

They should have reasonable size for printing on large-size posters.

Hints and links welcome, as well as eMailed once.

Greetings
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Re: Debian 2.0 Hamm

2008-09-26 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Fri Sep 26, 2008 at 07:14:56 +0200, Stan wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Just for fun am I looking for Debian Hamm on diskette to 
 insall on my old IBM 365X Thinkpad. Is there anybody who 
 still has them and I willing to email me the diskette 
 images.
 

maybe archive.debian.org still has it...
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Re: Darmstadt network downtime 2008-03-29 - affects lists and more

2008-03-28 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 01:01:30 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
 On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:53:23AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
  the Metropolitan Area Network Darmstadt (MAN-DA) will be working on
  their uplink fibers today, 2008-03-29 between 0630 and 1700Z.  All
  our machines in their network will be unreachable for this time.
 
 A whole day of downtime, and six hours of advance warning - sounds like
 bad planning? Will I be killed instantly for suggesting that we should
 host stuff in places which have some better standards for these kinds
 of things? :)

no, you should argue with me for with me for not forwarding stuff in
appropriate time in advance. That was clearly my fault.

Also it is not said that the downtime will be the whole time, it is just
that during these hours there will be worked on the uplink.

Greetings
Martin

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Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-08-20 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sun Aug 19, 2007 at 20:09:13 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
 
 Did that information made it to some document?
 
 If yes, to which one and what is it's URL?
 
 In other words:
 Where can one read more about it?
 

http://db.debian.org/doc-mail.html

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RFH: arm machines needed for experimental buildd network

2007-07-15 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

for the current experimental buildd network we have a need of arm
machines. The current machine we have is maintained by Kenshi Muto and
works perfect, but we currently try to set up some redundancy on
machines running for our network.

So if you have a machine which meets the follwing criteria, please
contact either me or Marc Brockschmidt:

ARM with at least 64MB Ram
20 GB HDD, better 40-60.
24/7 Network connectivity 
static IP (v6 also okay)


Greetings
Martin


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Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 16:40:34 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 Also note that I am not attacking people but only trying to inform about the 
 truth while Mr. Bloch is constantly publishing personal attacks.

Please point us to those. I couldn't find those, only technical base
stuff with well knowledge from Eduard. I want to read both sides, as i
am sick of the bitching of cdrecord coming up once and a while on
several Debian lists, as well as in German newspaper magazines.

Greetings
Martin

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Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 17:28:36 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hi, 
 
  On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 16:40:34 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
   Also note that I am not attacking people but only trying to inform about 
   the 
   truth while Mr. Bloch is constantly publishing personal attacks.
  ^
  Please point us to those. I couldn't find those, only technical base
  stuff with well knowledge from Eduard. I want to read both sides, as i
  am sick of the bitching of cdrecord coming up once and a while on
  several Debian lists, as well as in German newspaper magazines.
 
 Well, the _missing_ technical knowledge (*) from Mr. Bloch is the real cause 
 for the problems - not a license problem.
 
 Unfortunately, most of his personal attacks are done inside private mail, so 
 it
 is hard to prove their existence. Some of them however have been made in 
 public mail, so please read the public mail archives.
 
 
 *) The problems with him did start about 3-4 years ago, after he asked me to 
 include some libiconv patches from Debian in the official mkisofs release.
 After I did have a look at them, it turned out that these patches were 
 expected
 to cause core dumps because of massive bugs. After I explained him what's 
 wrong
 and asked him to first fix the problems, he started with his personal attacks 
 but never send a fix for the technical problems.
 
 During the past few months, Mr. Bloch did learn some lessons while being 
 forced
 to deal with the old cdrtools sources. He did change his mind with many 
 topics 
 where he did refuse to accept my statements but he still needs to learn a lot
 of other things.

I asked you to point me to those published personal attacks and i did
not ask you about your personal opinion about Mr. Bloch. 

Read what i wrote you, and then speak again! 

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Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 17:44:53 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
 Hi, 
 
 I asked you to point me to those published personal attacks and i did
 not ask you about your personal opinion about Mr. Bloch. 
 
 Read what i wrote you, and then speak again! 

As Mr. Schilling answered all the other mails in this thread but didn't
answer to this one, and was not able to point me to any published mails
by Mr. Bloch with personal attacks to Mr Schilling, we now conclude that
there is no published personal attacks from Mr. Bloch. 

Therefore we also conclude, Mr. Schilling seem to be the liar, who is
spreading lies about Mr. Bloch, who never seemed to have published any
personal attacks attacks to Mr. Schilling.

End of discussion from my side here.

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Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Sun Mar 25, 2007 at 01:24:39 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   I asked you to point me to those published personal attacks and i did
   not ask you about your personal opinion about Mr. Bloch. 
   
   Read what i wrote you, and then speak again! 
 
  As Mr. Schilling answered all the other mails in this thread but didn't
  answer to this one, and was not able to point me to any published mails
  by Mr. Bloch with personal attacks to Mr Schilling, we now conclude that
  there is no published personal attacks from Mr. Bloch. 
 
 I usually do not answer to trolls...but...
 
 Read the Debian mailing list archives and you will find some of the related
 personal atacks.

I asked for references, but you seem not to be able to give me ANY of
them, just telling me look in the archive. So you seem not to be able
to give me any concrete pointer. 

So whom should i trust now? You? Mr. Bloch?

There was a reason why i asked for concrete pointers.

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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

 Maintaining a buildd isn't trivial, there's:
 
 - making sure they don't get rooted, and their builds compromised
 - keeping the chroot up to date
 - keeping in sync with w-b / sbuild changes
 - keeping in sync with the infrastructure upstream (building from 
 incoming,
   access to the buildd.d.o, etc)
 - keeping the hardware available and running
 - keeping the buildd building packages that will work
 
 It's not /that/ hard either (even if it's not something I could do without
 a chunk of learning), but basically, yeah there are technical constraints.
 The only policy constraint is that we're aiming to keep the number of
 buildds limited to two or three per architecture (where possible); the
 social constraints are mostly about convincingly demonstrating that the
 technical constraints will be met on an ongoing basis.

i think someone running more than one autobuilder for more than _two_
years now (okay, not for the officical archive, but i see that as
nonrelevant here) demonstrats very good that he mets your mentioned
technical constraints.

Greetings
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, 

On Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 13:13:36 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
 -vote dropped
 
 On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
   Maintaining a buildd isn't trivial, there's:
   
   - making sure they don't get rooted, and their builds compromised
   - keeping the chroot up to date
   - keeping in sync with w-b / sbuild changes
   - keeping in sync with the infrastructure upstream (building from 
   incoming,
 access to the buildd.d.o, etc)
   - keeping the hardware available and running
   - keeping the buildd building packages that will work
   
   It's not /that/ hard either (even if it's not something I could do without
   a chunk of learning), but basically, yeah there are technical constraints.
   The only policy constraint is that we're aiming to keep the number of
   buildds limited to two or three per architecture (where possible); the
   social constraints are mostly about convincingly demonstrating that the
   technical constraints will be met on an ongoing basis.
  i think someone running more than one autobuilder for more than _two_
  years now (okay, not for the officical archive, but i see that as
  nonrelevant here) demonstrats very good that he mets your mentioned
  technical constraints.
 
 AIUI, Aurelian doesn't have the capability to run a non-emulated arm
 buildd. While http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=25 is a good demonstration
 of some things, I don't think it's the level of buildd we want for our
 release architectures.
 
 In general, I could pretty easily imagine a buildd that fails every one of
 those points still being suitable for a non-release arch for two years.

I didn't thought of Aurelien, but of a few other persons, who are acting
as buildd maintainers for experimental and non-free packages.

Martin

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Closing down obsolete lists

2007-01-21 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

as part of the spring cleaning effort of the listmasters, we would like
to close down several unused, obsolete lists. Before doing so we would
like to 

a) give you the chance to veto against it 
b) document our reasons and changes publicly

The following lists will be effected:

Mailing listMembersLast valid post
--
debian-all-changes  1298   2002-08
debian-alpha-changes1462002-08
debian-arm-changes  1242002-12
debian-cd-vendors   1442001-07
debian-commercial   3377   2002-01
debian-devel-all-changes4712002-08
debian-devel-alpha-changes  1032002-11
debian-devel-arm-changes87 2003-08
debian-devel-hurd-i386-changes  3392002-08
debian-devel-i386-changes   7092002-11
debian-devel-m68k-changes   47 2003-03
debian-devel-powerpc-changes2192000-12
debian-devel-s390-changes   30 - (only spam)
debian-devel-sparc-changes  1032002-06
debian-hurd-i386-changes3432003-08
debian-i386-changes 7782003-07
debian-m68k-changes 87 2003-07
debian-ports2  2003-03
debian-powerpc-changes  2702003-06
debian-s390-changes 33 - (only spam)
debian-sparc-changes1812002-05

Please bring up any reason for not closing down one of the above lists
up to [EMAIL PROTECTED] before February 04th, 2007.

Greetings
Martin

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[RFH] Review of year 2006

2006-12-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

Ana Guerrero and me started preparing a review of year 2006. We use DWN,
Planet Debian, debian-project@, debian-devel@ and debian-devel-announce@
as sources for this review. But we now face the following problems:

(a) we want to try to be objective, but with two persons only writing
it, this review becomes everything else but objective.

(b) this is a huge amount of work to do. With lots of discussions on
-project and -devel this year, we currently see no light at the end of
the tunnel.

So it would be nice if some more persons would volunteer to help with
this review. It is planed to publish it on times.debian.net and it would
be nice to have it also on other places published, as LWN or linux.com.

First drafts for January and February are availible on [1]. Ana and me
are currently working on March and April. Coordination for the review
should go via debian-publicity ML. We need volunteers for both (a) and
(b). It would be nice if our small team could be strengthen by a few
more members.

Greetings
Martin

[1] http://times.debian.net/~zobel/2006
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Re: Delete my message on one Debian List Please

2006-12-03 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Pierre!

On Sun Dec 03, 2006 at 01:45:36 +0100, pierrero wrote:
 I've posted messages in one of your Debian lists from from my business
 email address and I start to receive spam.
 It is very sad since I had succeeded with preserving of any indexing by
 the spam robots :-(

The Debian-Listarchives-Policy is to NOT remove or alter any postings 
if they are published.

Even if we would, it wouldn't help, as our lists are archived
elsewhere, so once an email has been accepted it is out in the wild
with its entire content and addresses and theres no way to get it back.

Please see http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#disclaimer and
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/disclaimer

Greetings
Martin, Debian Listmaster of the Day

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Packages awaiting proposed-updates moderation

2006-08-01 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

for those who wonder why their package did not yet hit proposed-updates,
they want to have a look on [1] and [2].

The backlog we had is now decreasing, d-i builds should have been
started by now.


Greetings
Martin

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/06/msg7.html
[2] http://ftp-master.debian.org/proposed-updates.html


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Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-17 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Radu-Cristian,

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:51:06PM -0400, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU [EMAIL 
PROTECTED] wrote:

  That is still false. People's erroneous beliefs do not entitle them
  to anything.
 
 This is not about entitlement. This is about Debian's failure to react to a
 misuse of its trademarks.

Actually, if you read the README on this DVD, you will see that this DVD
was mastered by Debian Developers.


Greetings
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Re: Update on compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-13 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi James and all the others,

thanks for your great work and taking care of all our debian.org
machines. You do an excelent job.

Greetings
Martin


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Re: Update on compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-13 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Henning,

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:50:49PM +0200, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 Do we have any easy way of locating all recent uploads signed by a
 particular key?

IIRC dak stores GPG fingerprint for each upload in projectb.

Greetings
Martin


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Re: Donations

2006-05-25 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Kari,

On Thursday, 25 May 2006, you wrote:
 On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:38:11PM +0100, Donna Orlowski wrote:
  Hi there,
  
  We are a UK based company and we use Debian for all our existing 
  servers. We'd like to make a direct donation into Debian account and I 
  was wondering if we could get you international wire transfer details? 
 
 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. is the legal entity that
 receives and disburses Debian funds, holds Debian copyrights and
 trademarks, etc.

IIRC Debian UK guys have also some bank accounts. CCed Steve for that.

Greetings
Martin


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Re: For those who care about bits from our teams (aka: press and event stuff)

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Alexander,

really nice to see some improvement here.

Greetings
Martin


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Bug#354747: db.debian.org: SSL certificate expired

2006-02-28 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Package: project
Severity: normal

Hi,

the HTTP SSL certificate of db.debian.org expired. Please renew it.

Greetings
Martin


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Status of mirror split and AMD64

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

could the FTP-Team please clairify what the current status of the mirror
split and the inclusion of AMD64 is? It has been said this will happen
directly after the release of sarge. Sarge is now 7 month out and (to
the enduser view) nothing has happened. This is very embarrassing for
Debian.

I don't like to hear It will happen but what the actual current status
is and where the community can help.

Greetings
Martin


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Re: Status of mirror split and AMD64

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi,

On Friday, 06 Jan 2006, you wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:40:23AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
  could the FTP-Team please clairify what the current status of the mirror
  split and the inclusion of AMD64 is? It has been said this will happen
  directly after the release of sarge. Sarge is now 7 month out and (to
  the enduser view) nothing has happened. This is very embarrassing for
  Debian.
  
  I don't like to hear It will happen but what the actual current status
  is and where the community can help.
 
 aj blogged about it here:
 
 http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2005/11/16#2005-11-16-dak
 
 There was also some talk about this during the recent Archive
 architecture qualification IRC discussion on #debian-tech[1]:
 
  Q_ aj: So what still needs to happen for the mirroring changes?
 aj Q_: work out exactly what mirrors should do; tell mirrors
   what they should do; wait for mirrors to do that
 [...]
 aj Q_: there's already a reasonably easy script, it's more the
   issue of making it easy for people to find a (eg) m68k mirror
   when the country mirror only had i386 eg
 
 There have also been ongoing discussions about optimizing
 apt-ftparchive, but I am not sure whether this is part of the solution
 as well.  Maybe aj can comment on that.

There have no official announcment yet. I find it very embarrassing
for Debian not to tell official what still needs to happen. Official is
for me a mail to d-d-a.

Greetings
Martin


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Re: Induction of new members to the technical committee

2005-12-21 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Manoj,

On Tuesday, 20 Dec 2005, you wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Given that some of the current members of the technical
  committee have been unavailable for a while, and others have moved on
  from an active involvement with Debian, the technical committee, in
  conjunction with the project leader, would like to appoint new
  members to bring the committee back up to strength.
 
 So I hereby propose that this committee recommend to the
  the Debian project leader the following individuals to be candidates
  for induction into the technical committee (as per section 6.2.2 of
  the constitution)
 
o) Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
o) Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
o) Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 I would like to call for a public vote on the appointment
  (subject to acceptance) as per section 6.3.4 of the constitution.

actually, i would like to know how this persons have been
appointed/selected? Will this work like any other vote, so anyone can be
recommented? Or does the CTTE need to assign this person by it's own?

It's not that i disagree with the discission, but i would like to
recomment to _not_ take persons who are already having a huge load in
Debian.

Greetings
Martin


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Re: Is volatile dead?

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Adrian,

On Monday, 21 Nov 2005, you wrote:
 On Monday 21 November 2005 10.15, Andreas Barth wrote:
  * Adrian von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051121 08:32]:
* I've not received an answer to my announcement on the d-v mailing
   list in a week, and investigation of the last three messages in the
   list archive (re: spamassassin and f-prot-installer) indicate that
   receiving no comments is nothing unusual.
 
  You mean, if there is a week where people are only available for
  emergency services, an service is officially dead? Sorry, I disagree.
 
 yes, I have only waited a week, and I agree with you that people can be very 
 busy for one week and not able to answer mail.   But a week is not the 
 impression I get:
[...]
 
 As I said, I'm not involved with volatile at all, and getting no answer for 
 a week and, on investigating, finding that the relevant mailing list is 
 very low-traffic with the latest messages being two other people 
 complaining about delays of a month, does not give me a good impression.
 
 If this is a temporary situation, all the better.

How about joining the team? debian-volatile would surely do better, if
more persons would be involved in the team process. Why does it allways
need Andi or me to answer a mail on the mailing lists?

Greetings
Martin


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Re: Is volatile dead?

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi MJ,

you might have seen my post[1] on debian-www this afternoon. This a
first draft how the new debian-volatile web page could look like. I know
that not all information is yet included, but i think moving
debian-volatile webpages to gluck makes it easier for other persons to
help with webpages. As i am really not a good web page writer i would
appreciate help here very much.

Greetings
Martin

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2005/11/msg00226.html


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Re: Bits from the ftpmaster team

2005-03-18 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi James,

On Friday, 18 Mar 2005, James Troup wrote:
 Hi,
 
 The ftpmaster team would like to announce some new additions, namely
 
   Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0]
 and   Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Great news to hear.


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