November status update for Fedora Infrastructure Apprentices

[Kevin Fenzi]

Greetings.

You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group
in the fedora account system. When you reply, please include your
fedora account system login. 

Additionally, this month, I am CC'ing the infrastructure list. If you
would like to send your feedback there as well everyone can see and
comment on it. 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice

At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an
email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for
you.

I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the
following data or anything related you can think of that might help us
make the apprentice program more useful. 

0. Whats your fedora account system login?

1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at
our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to?

2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute
to more?

3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the fi-apprentice
'easyfix' tickets?
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14

4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever
reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road?

5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help
you do any of the above?

6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
Finding tickets in your interest area? 

7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them
helpful or interesting? 

8. What do you use to read your email? 

Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.

Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from the
group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or
whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the
group up to date with active folks).

Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback!

kevin

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 11/07/2013 08:39 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  0. Whats your fedora account system login? 
msuchy

>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look
> at
>  our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 
Yes.

>  2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or
> contribute
>  to more? 
yes.

>  3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the
> fi-apprentice
>  'easyfix' tickets?
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14 
No. I have copr.

>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for
> whatever
>  reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road? 
Yes. No.

>  5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would
> help
>  you do any of the above? 
As stated on meeting, I would like to help with fedora-cloud. Which 
currently require to be root on lockbox.
Can be the openstack credentials stored on lockbox in some directory 
where group sysadmin-cloud have access?

>  6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
>  Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
>  Finding tickets in your interest area? 
No problem. Life is hard. Administration is easy. :)

>  7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find
> them
>  helpful or interesting? 
Yes. Yes.

>  8. What do you use to read your email? 
Eyes. And Thunderbird.


Mirek

[Anshu Prateek]

Replies inline:


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:

>  Greetings.
>
>  You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group
>  in the fedora account system. When you reply, please include your
>  fedora account system login.
>
>  Additionally, this month, I am CC'ing the infrastructure list. If you
>  would like to send your feedback there as well everyone can see and
>  comment on it.
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice
>
>  At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an
>  email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for
>  you.
>
>  I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the
>  following data or anything related you can think of that might help us
>  make the apprentice program more useful.
>
>  0. Whats your fedora account system login?
>  
anshprat


>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at
>  our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to?
>  
yes n yes


>  2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute
>  to more?
>  
yes, I will  be contributing more on apps side.



>  3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the fi-apprentice
>  'easyfix' tickets?
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14
>  
mm, the task I am working on started as a simple "improve"
latency/performance of askbot which evolved into upgrade 0.7.49 which
became packaged 0.7.49. I am mostly done, now only packaging and testing on
fedora/rawhide is left. Its done for epel. I vent been able to spend much
time on it last few weeks. Have just been doing something like 4 hours a
week.


>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever
>  reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road?
>  
yes


>  5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help
>  you do any of the above?
>  


>  6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
>  Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
>  Finding tickets in your interest area?
>  

>  7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them
>  helpful or interesting?
>  
yes . helps to know what others are doing and whats happening in the apps
world.


>  8. What do you use to read your email?
>  
mostly browser/laptop and mobile.


>  Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
>  improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.
>  
How about pairing apprentices up? Nothing mandatory , but this would help
new folks to discover more stuff and help each other? I discovered the
whole mock / bodhi / koji infra only when I had to pack. And can help new
folks with it now.

Also would help us to retain more folks around. Of the last two months I ve
been here, I think I ve seen few of the apprentices repeatedly in the
meetings atleast..


>  Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from the
>  group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or
>  whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the
>  group up to date with active folks).
>
>  Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback!
>
>  kevin
>

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Anshu Prateek  wrote:

>  mm, the task I am working on started as a simple "improve"
>  latency/performance of askbot which evolved into upgrade 0.7.49 which
>  became packaged 0.7.49. I am mostly done, now only packaging and testing on
>  fedora/rawhide is left.
>  
For the record,  for every update so far, I have usually tried it in Fedora
first, test it for a while and then commit and build it for Fedora and if
things work out well, test and commit it in EPEL, moving into staging and
then production.  Atleast during the initial period when we adopted askbot,
there were a lot more bugs that we reported upstream and got fixed.  Things
seems to be more stable now atleast for our needs (though certainly not bug
free) and it might useful to follow a consistent strategy.   Thanks for
helping out!

Rahul

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 01:48:29 +0530
Anshu Prateek <anshprat(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...snip...

>  > Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
>  > improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.
>  >
>  
>  How about pairing apprentices up? Nothing mandatory , but this would
>  help new folks to discover more stuff and help each other? I
>  discovered the whole mock / bodhi / koji infra only when I had to
>  pack. And can help new folks with it now.
>  
>  Also would help us to retain more folks around. Of the last two
>  months I ve been here, I think I ve seen few of the apprentices
>  repeatedly in the meetings atleast.. 
It's an interesting thought... one problem is that people are in so
many different timezones, so finding someone to pair up with could be
complicated by that. 

Perhaps we could ask in the beginning of the meeting if there's any
folks that would like to pair up?

kevin

[Christopher Meng]

On Nov 8, 2013 3:39 AM, "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:

>  0. Whats your fedora account system login? 
cicku

>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look
> at
>  our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 
No. Maybe.

>  2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or
> contribute
>  to more? 
No.

>  3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the
> fi-apprentice
>  'easyfix' tickets?
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14 
Yes. But only limited to look.

>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for
> whatever
>  reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road? 
Yes. No.

>  5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would
> help
>  you do any of the above? 
No.

>  6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
>  Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
>  Finding tickets in your interest area? 
I spend most of time bringing more and more packages into Fedora at the
moment.

>  7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find
> them
>  helpful or interesting? 
No, no. My locale doesn't allow me to do that.

>  8. What do you use to read your email?
>
>  Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
>  improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc. 
Gmail Web/Gmail for Android.

I was shocked that I could receive this email but I couldn't remember why
I'd logged into these machines...

[Alex Irmel Oviedo Solis]

>  0. Whats your fedora account system login?
>  
alexove

>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at
>  our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to?
>  
No

>  2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute
>  to more?
>
>  No 
>  3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the
> fi-apprentice
>  'easyfix' tickets?
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14
>  
Yes

>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever
>  reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road?
>  
Yes, No

>  5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help
>  you do any of the above?
>  
No

>  6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
>  Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
>  Finding tickets in your interest area?
>  
 Find things to work on

>  7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them
>  helpful or interesting?
>  
Yes

>  8. What do you use to read your email?
>  
gmail, evolution

>  Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
>  improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.
>  
No

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[Edgar Muniz Berlinck]

>  Greetings.
>  
>  You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group
>  in the fedora account system. When you reply, please include your
>  fedora account system login. 
>  
>  Additionally, this month, I am CC'ing the infrastructure list. If you
>  would like to send your feedback there as well everyone can see and
>  comment on it. 
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice
>  
>  At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an
>  email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for
>  you.
>  
>  I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the
>  following data or anything related you can think of that might help us
>  make the apprentice program more useful. 
>  
>  0. Whats your fedora account system login? 
edgarberlinck

>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look
> at
>  our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 
No. Yes.

>  2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or
> contribute
>  to more? 
Yes.

>  3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the
> fi-apprentice
>  'easyfix' tickets?
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14 
Yes, but I having some issues, but I'm making progress.

>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for
> whatever
>  reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road? 
Sure! Not now, but I let you know when I have.

>  5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would
> help
>  you do any of the above? 
Not now.

>  6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
>  Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
>  Finding tickets in your interest area?  
Nothing. I found a bug to work on, but I having some issues. Nothing to
complain.

>  7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find
> them
>  helpful or interesting?  
I can't because I'm at work and I cant stop what I'm doing, but I always read
the logs.

>  8. What do you use to read your email?  
Gmail at work, Gmail app for iPhone when I on street and Evolution when I'm at home.

>  Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
>  improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc. 
Not now, but I let you know when I have.

>  Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from
> the
>  group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or
>  whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the
>  group up to date with active folks).
>  
>  Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback! 
Thanks to you. 

>  kevin
>  _______________________________________________
>  infrastructure mailing list
>  infrastructure(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure

[Anthony Mogrovejo]

El 07/11/2013 14:39, "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; escribió:
>  Greetings.
>
>  You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group
>  in the fedora account system. When you reply, please include your
>  fedora account system login.
>
>  Additionally, this month, I am CC'ing the infrastructure list. If you
>  would like to send your feedback there as well everyone can see and
>  comment on it.
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice
>
>  At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an
>  email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for
>  you.
>
>  I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the
>  following data or anything related you can think of that might help us
>  make the apprentice program more useful. 
>  0. Whats your fedora account system login? 
kdetony

>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at
>  our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 
No

>  2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or
> contribute
>  to more? 
No

>  3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the
> fi-apprentice
>  'easyfix' tickets?
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14 
Yes

>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for
> whatever
>  reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road? 
Yes, No

>  5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would
> help
>  you do any of the above? 
I would like to help with fedora puppet,mcollective ;)

>  6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
>  Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
>  Finding tickets in your interest area? 
I system administrator linux/unix

>  7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find
> them
>  helpful or interesting? 
Yes

>  8. What do you use to read your email? 
Gmail

>  Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
>  improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc. 
I have experience administration servers whit puppet & mcollective, chef
and Spacewak to administration servers linux/unix

>  Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from
> the
>  group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or
>  whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the
>  group up to date with active folks).
>
>  Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback!
>
>  kevin
>
>  
Regards _______________________________________________
>  infrastructure mailing list
>  infrastructure(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:39:09PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  0. Whats your fedora account system login? 
mattdm

>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look
> at
>  our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 
no, kind of sadly.

[...]

>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for
> whatever
>  reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road? 
When I started at Red Hat, I thought I would be doing a lot of this. I've
ended up being pulled in other directions. 

-- 
Matthew Miller  ☁☁☁  Fedora Cloud Architect  ☁☁☁  <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;

[Chris A. Roberts]

0. Whats your fedora account system login?

chrisroberts

1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at
our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to?

I have logged in once to look at the different plugins for the wiki, and will login again
as I have found a few template i have been trying on my machine to see if it would better
the wiki. I will bring them up in a meeting after i see how they would be a good fit
 
2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute
to more?

Yes, the Sysadmin side 

3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the fi-apprentice
'easyfix' tickets?
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14

I have been working on the Wiki tickets and have closed 1 already :)

 4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever
reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road?

Yes I still wish to be a member of the group. 
 5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help
you do any of the above?

Not at the moment
 
6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
Finding tickets in your interest area? 

None really, I wish there was a few more wiki tickets though. 

7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them
helpful or interesting? 

Yes I do it gives me a chance to catch up on whats going on.

8. What do you use to read your email? 

I either use Evolution when I am on my machine or when out and about I use Zimbra's
web mail client.

Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.

Not at this time

- Chris Roberts

[David Gay]

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On 11/07/2013 02:39 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  Greetings.
>  
>  You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice'
>  group in the fedora account system. When you reply, please include
>  your fedora account system login.
>  
>  Additionally, this month, I am CC'ing the infrastructure list. If
>  you would like to send your feedback there as well everyone can see
>  and comment on it.
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice
>  
>  At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out
>  an email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are
>  going for you.
>  
>  I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the 
>  following data or anything related you can think of that might help
>  us make the apprentice program more useful.
>  
>  0. Whats your fedora account system login? 
oddshocks

>  
>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to
>  look at our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 
not in the past month. don't need to log into the machines for
anything right now.

>  
>  2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or
>  contribute to more? 
Still been working on badges.

>  
>  3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the
>  fi-apprentice 'easyfix' tickets? 
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14 
Not recently, just badges work.

>  
>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for
>  whatever reason) could you provide any hints to help others down
>  the road? 
Sure!

>  
>  5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would
>  help you do any of the above? 
Not that I can think of!

>  
>  6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved? 
>  Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help
>  you? Finding tickets in your interest area? 
Not having any trouble.

>  
>  7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find
>  them helpful or interesting? 
Missed the last couple, but usually attend.

>  
>  8. What do you use to read your email? 
Thunderbird. I set up mutt but unfortunately it behaves poorly with my
email server.

>  
>  Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including 
>  improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.
>  
>  Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from
>  the group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time
>  or whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep
>  the group up to date with active folks).
>  
>  Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback!
>  
>  kevin
>  
>  
>  
>  _______________________________________________ infrastructure
>  mailing list infrastructure(a)lists.fedoraproject.org 
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
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[Frankie]

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 12:39 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: 
>  Greetings.
>  
>  You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group
>  in the fedora account system. When you reply, please include your
>  fedora account system login. 
>  
>  Additionally, this month, I am CC'ing the infrastructure list. If you
>  would like to send your feedback there as well everyone can see and
>  comment on it. 
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice
>  
>  At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an
>  email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for
>  you.
>  
>  I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the
>  following data or anything related you can think of that might help us
>  make the apprentice program more useful. 
>  
>  0. Whats your fedora account system login? 
frankieonuonga 
>  
>  1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at
>  our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 
yes I have 
>  
>  2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute
>  to more? 
yes 
>  
>  3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the fi-apprentice
>  'easyfix' tickets?
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14 
yes I was able to. need to
finalize on what i had done and maybe pick up
one more. 
>  
>  4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever
>  reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road? 
yes I do. I plan
on working on an internal search engine. I also plan on
helping on the cloud group. 
>  
>  5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help
>  you do any of the above? 
none yet. 
>  
>  6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
>  Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
>  Finding tickets in your interest area?  
I found it easy. People were always willing
to help. 
>  
>  7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them
>  helpful or interesting?  
yes I attend fedora-admin and fedora-cloud meetings. 
>  
>  8. What do you use to read your email?  
Evolution mail client. 
>  
>  Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
>  improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.
>  
>  Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from the
>  group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or
>  whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the
>  group up to date with active folks).
>  
>  Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback!
>  
>  kevin