hackfest sessions for Fudcon blacksburg 2012

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:12:11 -0500
seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:17:05 -0700
> Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings. 
> > 
> > I thought I'd start a thread here about hackfest sessions for the
> > next North American Fudcon. I'm not sure how many folks can make
> > it, but hopefully we have a good crowd and can get some good
> > progress made on some things that are harder to do/discuss
> > remotely. 
> > 
> > I'll collect ideas here, and we can add the sessions we think we
> > will want to the wiki after we reach some consensus... 
> > 
> > My list:
> > 
> > Infrastructure Staging revamp: How can we reorg staging to make it
> > more useful and less hassle? We have all I think agreed it could be
> > more complete and setup better, but we need to flesh out the details
> > and a plan of attack. 
> > 
> > 2 factor auth: Short term I think I personally would like to see us
> > finish yubikey as 2factor and require it for some groups, but longer
> > term things like google auth, etc should weigh in. Can we reuse
> > things from other projects? Can we come up with a map and ask for
> > help? A hackfest to come up with a plan would be great. 
> > 
> > Aprentice program/adding new people brainstorming: I think the
> > apprentice program has helped some folks, but It still seems like we
> > have a lot of people introduce themselves and not really get
> > involved. What could we do to make this better? Classes? A specific
> > list of tasks and we just assign them one to get them started?
> > 
> > CSI hacking. I think we could flesh out the CSI docs a good deal
> > more if we can sit down and brainstorm on it. 
> > 
> 
> 
> There are 3 things I think would be do-able in the timeframe
> available.
> 
> 
> 1. 2fa setup - I concur - fix what's not working on move toward the
> future of it. Hell, it'd be nice to do it before fudcon and bring all
> the yubikeys we have spare to fudcon to distribute and verify for
> folks who need them
> 
> 
> 2. select hosted projects to try out migration 'TO THE CLOUD' - the
> plan we have discussed in the past to do hosted-$infinite and just
> setup aliases for each project (hosted-func, hosted-coprs,
> hosted-mock, etc). If we could get volunteer projects to try this out
> on we could start with things like gitlabhq and the alias changes are
> fairly straightforward.
> 
> 3. the db-## to db-project name: db-fas, db-wiki, db-ask, db-whatever
> so we no longer have to play games with figuring out where things are
> stored and chasing them down. This involves making simple aliases and
> updating the projects to talk to those aliases instead. It's not hard
> and it's great progress to undertake
> 
> 
> There are more things worth talking about - but in almost all cases
> they require that someone have the time to work on them.... which is
> sadly limited, I've found.
> 

oh and I'll add one more thing here:

go through this list
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Cleanup_Tasks_2011

update it and refresh it in general.

b/c it has been handy to me as a guide for things that need doing.

-sv
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