[Mageia-sysadm] Main tasks for the next days

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 16 novembre 2010 à 00:12 +0100, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> As was decided in tonight IRC meeting, the priority tasks for sysadmin in
> the next days will be :
>  * the configuration of pam_ldap, nss_ldap, and everything needed to
>    allow commits from LDAP accounts on SVN

>  * the configuration of forums with LDAP accounts (to be finished)

A first step would be to make sure that people in charge of forum read
this list and are subscribed to it. And another step would be to know
what they do, since I am spammed every day by the cron job who update of
urpmi who is bounced to root at zarb alias, as the server is
misconfigurated ( ie, it send mail to a alias that do not exist ).

>  * the configuration of sympa mailing lists server using LDAP for users
>    authentication

We didn't really discussed how and what we will use ldap and sympa for,
and that we setup without thinking first about the full picture.

Ie, if sympa use ldap for authentication, does that mean that people
will be forced to use identity to subscribe ? 
How would it goes for moderation ?
How would they do for subscription ?

There is lots of topic that we didn't really discussed about ML setup
like :
 - list moderation policy 
 - archiving
 - migration from the old server ( especially for archives migrations )
 - setting a proper spam filter, with greylisting and sympa integration
 - web interface setup and requirement 
 - etc, etc

So we should not start by installing software on production server,
testing it and saying "it is almost ready", but first by thinking about
what we need and what will happen, test it elsewhere, and then deploy
it. 


> Regarding the soft/ repository :
>  * misc will send an email to discuss a new soft/ repository
>    organisation
done

>  * we will import a copy of the Mandriva soft/ repository as
>    svn.mageia.org/soft-cleaning, and will use this repository to clean
>    all projects. Each project when ready will be imported in the new
>    soft/ repository (when the new organisation has been decided). The
>    soft-cleaning repository will only be used to do the cleaning work
>    and will be erased when finished.

Without history ?

Because there is software that do not requires cleaning ( like mdvsys or
some software that were fully created by the community ).

-- 
Michael Scherer