ticket#2673 - nitrate deployment
by James Laska
Greetings,
I am in search of sponsorship for hosting space to deploy a test
instance of nitrate [1]. Some of you may recall several years back when
we deployed an instance of Testopia. That exploration was cut short
when we discovered license incompatibilities between testopia and
Fedora. At that time, a small group of Red Hat associates began
creating a new Django-based test management system to remove the
components that had conflicting licenses. That new system became
nitrate [1].
The Fedora QA team would like to experiment/explore this newer
Django-based test management system. At the very least, I believe we'll
need a publicly accessible server where we can host the nitrate instance
and a mysql database for it.
I filed ticket#2673
(https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2673) to track
this request. Please don't hesitate with any
questions/comments/concerns.
Thanks,
James
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/nitrate/
12 years, 4 months
SSH changed to pubkey auth only
by Ricky Zhou
Hey, just a note to let everybody know, we just switched all of our
machines to disallow SSH password authentication, so if you were
previously using passwords to login anywhere, you'll need to use key
auth now.
Thanks,
Ricky
12 years, 6 months
retiring blogs.fedoraproject.org on 2011-07-01
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
There has been some confusion and misunderstanding around
blogs.fedoraproject.org recently. This email will hopefully clear them
up.
At the Tempe Fudcon, the Fedora Infrastructure team determined that we
should retire our blogs.fedoraproject.org service. The reasons for this
were:
* We currently have no infrastructure members who are driving support
of this service. (Fixing bugs, following upstream or improving the
service).
* Wordpress has a long history of security issues, requiring frequent,
custom patches or updates to keep it secure.
* Many other sites out there are providing blog services as their core
mission, likely resulting in a more feature-full and compelling
offering. Some of these sites like wordpress.com are commited to free
software, like Fedora is.
* Usage of the service was quite low. We have 92 blogs, but only 39 of
them had more than 5 posts. Only 6 of them had posts in the last
month, and only 23 had posts in 2011.
While we are open to interested parties stepping forward to help us
maintain the service, currently there is no compelling reason to
keep the service running.
We will be happy to help any user wishing to transition their blog to
another service. We will provide web site redirects and dumps of their
posts.
Please contact fedora infrastructure (infrastructure(a)lists.fedoraproject.org)
with further questions or concerns.
kevin
12 years, 6 months
AUTO: Shannon Mcleod is out of the office (returning 06/02/2011)
by Shannon Mcleod
I am out of the office until 06/02/2011.
I will be on vacation until June 2nd. Tim Blow is my backup.
Thanks,
Shannon McLeod
Unix System Administrator
Dubuque GDF
Note: This is an automated response to your message "infrastructure
Digest, Vol 60, Issue 32" sent on 5/29/11 6:00:18.
This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.
12 years, 6 months
Cell Phone not working
by Stephen John Smoogen
I may be a bit late with pages and such. The cell phone has severely
crapped out and I have to go to the store to get them to fix it.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
"The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard
battle." -- Ian MacLaren
12 years, 6 months
