New guy question

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:09:56PM -0400, Matt Micene wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> [mailto:infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of
> Mike McGrath
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:18 PM
> To: Fedora Infrastructure
> Subject: Re: New guy question
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Matt Micene wrote:
> 
> > I've been lurking and learning as much as I can via Trac , IRC, and
> the
> > wiki to figure out where I think I can best fit before sending my
> intro
> > email.  I'm running into a bit of a road block mentally tho and am
> > looking for some pointers to docs I may be missing.
> >
> > Is there more info like the Orientation SOP that goes into the
> > architectures in use for the various different services?  The
> technical
> > architecture overview on the Infrastructure wiki is fairly generic and
> > high level and the SOPs are fairly deep in the weeds (as they should
> > be).  Is there somewhere to find the middle ground at a service level
> > and or a next layer deep for the overview?
> >
> > Could be just the way I process, but I'm having a bit of a hard time
> > finding an place to start unraveling the ball to answer the "What do I
> > want to do" question.  Maybe sysadmin-noc is a good place to start
> (just
> > like the Real World (TM))?
> >
> 
> We don't so much have an architectural overview as we do a FIGs
> description.  I've been meaning to beef that up anyway.  Perhaps I'll do
> it this week:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/FIGs
> 
> 	-Mike
> 
> (Sorry for the ugly bottom post, Outlook bites)
> 
> Ok Mike, I will continue to poke around the SOPs and the FIG
> descriptions and figure out a landing spot for me.  Then again, don't
> complain if you can't help solve, maybe building an architectural
> overview could be a place to start?

Wow, +10 for attitude, Matt!  The questions you get answered and then
help document for others will make other people's learning curve more
shallow.

Kind of timely:
http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=3271

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