Hello,

some time has passed since my latest update so here we come with a few
items I've been working on on the past two weeks.

New infrastructure-announce mailing list
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>From the 8th of May a new mailing list has been started for all the
announcements about downtimes, outages, maintenances related to the GNOME
Infrastructure. As a side note the mail you are currently reading will be
the last that will be kept CCed on desktop-devel-list and foundation-list.
Please take a little minute to subscribe yourself to the new list at [1] to
not loose any of the updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team.

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Jabber
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As you may have noticed our Jabber server currently doesn't allow you to
add any JID not equal to j...@jabber.gnome.org, that means you can't chat
with people having a JID registered on a different server than the one
hosted on the GNOME Infrastructure. The problem is related to a specific
firewall port not being open, we've taken action on it and the relevant
port will be open really soon for the clients to successfully "talk" with
other clients coming from the "outside world".

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live.gnome.org
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Our wiki had a really quick maintenance [2] that upgraded it to the latest
available MoinMoin's release. (1.9.7) This release takes in a stronger
password encryption (it's not based on SHA anymore, but on PASSLIB
instead), I would suggest anyone to change their password as soon as
possible.

In addition to the above, I've cleaned up a bit inactive users, deleted and
trashed pages:

1. inactive users (users that registered but never did a single edit since
the time they registered their account) were around 23000 (loads of
spammers), the current amount of registered and active users went to 6000.
Editing pages became really too slow, MoinMoin currently checks each of the
registered user's subscriptions list for eventually notifying the user
about the change that occurred on the page being edited. That process was
taking around 9-10 seconds, and that was actually expected with an amount
of 29000 registered users.
2. deleted pages (pages that were marked as 'Deleted' on the wiki) got
moved from the data/ directory of live.gnome.org to a backup directory and
the cache was cleaned for the changes to take place.
3. trashed pages (pages that were marked as 'Trashed' on the wiki) got
moved from the data/ directory of live.gnome.org to a backup directory and
the cache was cleaned for the changes to take place.

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MeetBot
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Our Services bot was enhanced with MeetBot, more details are available at
[3]. Make good use of it!

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KGB Bot
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I've been working during the past week on the KGB Bot [4] (it has been a
pain to package dozen of perl libraries!), which is a little IRC bot
capable of sendind out notifications when a commit occurs on a specific git
repository. I'm currently waiting the RH IT to open the specific port on
the firewall for the kgb-client to communicate correctly with the bot which
is hosted on a machine outside the datacenter where git.gnome.org runs.
I'll make sure to send out an additional mail when the service is ready to
go accepting new requests.

That should be all for now, have an awesome weekend!

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure-announce
[2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-May/msg00033.html
[3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-April/msg00037.html
[4] http://kgb.alioth.debian.org


-- 
Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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