[Fedora-join] Sysadmin looking to help

[Jeffrey Taylor]

Hi Ankur!

Thank you very much for the detailed response. I'm excited to get started
and in addition, to hear that the Fedora Infrastructure group is using
modern tools. I think the most welcome part is that there actually seems to
be room for sysadmins to help. I've found that is often not the case in
modern projects(not referring to Fedora).

Ideally, I'd like to contribute to something that is within my skill set.
Although doing a little QA might be fun on some other boxes I have around.
One of the reasons I'm leaning towards infra - aside from being an
established sysadmin myself - is because I have quite a few virtual labs
kicking around. I imagine these would be of use to someone.

Anyways, thank you again(both you and Dan). I'm looking forward to getting
my hands dirty!


Jeff - 'publiccert'




On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 01:08 -0400, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
> > Evening everyone!
> >
> Hi Jeffrey!
>
> > I've been using Fedora for longer than I can remember. I used to be a
> > big Debian contributor(mostly server space/bandwidth) but time
> > restrictions at the time limited my ability to help. That was a long
> > time ago. I was just a kid then. I'm now a syadmin with 8 years of
> > experience and more servers and space than I can count(I run a small
> > colo setup and work full-time for a streaming company). I am no longer
> > in touch with the Debian project and as a Fedora user, it seemed like
> > the logical choice to offer what I can to the project.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've signed up for the
> > infrastructure and server mailing lists but don't want to just barge
> > in there without a goal. Maybe in my youth...
>
> Sure. That's what we're here for! Would you like to work in a sysadmin
> role, or are you open to try out something new. Dan's already pointed
> you to QA. I'll give you more detailed information and you can see where
> you want to get started.
>
> As a sysadmin, you can work with Fedora infrastructure[1]. They have a
> very very detailed page on getting started[2]. Infra handles all
> our..well..infra. This includes everything listed here[3], and the
> various fedora applications[4]. They make use of puppet and a lot of
> other stuff that I don't understand ;) Glean through the wiki for more
> info. They could really use a few more established sysadmins. There's a
> lot of work, and not enough hands on board sometimes.
>
> If you'd like to try something that isn't to do with system
> administration, you could look at the other tasks. QA is one[5], which
> is relatively simpler to start with. For instance, you can just give
> karma to updates[7]. It's a simple, but important task. If you'd like
> something more "dangerous", you can help test Fedora 19[8] which
> recently went Beta[9].
>
> There are a lot of other roles too. A quick introduction can be found
> here[6]. Do have a look and we look forward to answering any other
> questions that you have thereafter.
>
> > Anyways, thank you for any help and have a nice evening!
>
> Have a good weekend. We look forward to seeing you around in the
> community! There's a lot of work to do. Pick what you will :)
>
> [1]
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure#Contribute_to_Fedora_Infrastructure
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted
> [3] http://status.fedoraproject.org/
> [4] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/
> [5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
> [6] http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora
> [7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing
> [8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_19_test_days
> [9]
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2013-May/000695.html
> --
> Thanks,
> Warm regards,
> Ankur: "FranciscoD"
>
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>
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> http://ankursinha.in/blog
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