tor-project July 2020

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minutes from the sysadmin meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

# Roll call: who's there and emergencies Hiro and anarcat present in the meeting. Quick chat by mumble do to a check-in and resolve some issues with the installer to setup fsn-node-07 and check overall priorities. # Roadmap review We looked at the [issue board][] which excludes GitLab, because that board was processed in the gitlab meeting yesterday. [issue board]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards We went through the tickets and did some triage, moving some tickets from `Open` to `Backlog` and some tickets into `Next`. anarcat has no tickets left in `Backlog` because he's going away for a two months leave. hiro will review her ticket priorities within the week. ## GitLab workflow changes We tried to get used to the new GitLab workflow. We decided on using the "Next" label to follow the global @tpo convention, although we have not adopted the "Icebox" label yet. The gitlab policy was changed to: > Issues first land into a "triage" queue (`Open`), then get assigned to > a specific milestone as the ticket gets planned. We use the `Backlog`, > `Next`, and `Doing` of the global "TPO" group board labels. With the > `Open` and `Closed` list, this gives us the following policy: > > * `Open`: untriaged ticket, "ice box" > * `Backlog`: planned work > * `Next`: work to be done in the next iteration or "sprint" > (e.g. currently a month) > * `Doing`: work being done right now (generally during the day or > week) > * `Closed`: completed work > > That list can be adjusted in the future without formally reviewing > this policy. > > Priority of items in the lists are determined by the *order* of items > in the stack. Tickets should *not* stay in the `Next` or `Doing` lists > forever and should instead actively be closed or moved back into the > `Open` or `Backlog` board. Note that those policies are still being discussed in the GitLab project, see [issue 28][] for details. [issue 28]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/gitlab/-/issues/28 ## Exciting work that happened in June * [Trac migrated to GitLab][] * [TPA wiki][] migrated to GitLab * kvm4 and kvm5 were retired, signaling the end of the "libvirt/KVM" era of our virtual hosting: all critical services now live in Ganeti * lots of buster upgrades happened [Trac migrated to GitLab]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/gitlab/#migration [TPA wiki]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/ # Hand-off During the mumble check-in, hiro and anarcat established there was not any urgent issue requiring training or work. anarcat will continue working on the documentation tickets as much as he can before leaving ([Puppet][], [LDAP][], [static mirrors][]) but will otherwise significantly reduce his work schedule. [Puppet]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40024 [LDAP]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/34426 [static mirrors]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/34436 # Other discussions No other discussions were held. # Next meeting No next meeting is currently planned, but the next one should normally be held on Wednesday August 5th, according to our normal schedule. # Metrics of the month * hosts in Puppet: 72, LDAP: 75, Prometheus exporters: 126 * number of apache servers monitored: 29, hits per second: 176 * number of nginx servers: 2, hits per second: 2, hit ratio: 0.87 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 12 * pending upgrades: 1, reboots: 0 * average load: 0.67, memory available: 271.44 GiB/871.88 GiB, running processes: 400 * bytes sent: 211.50 MB/s, received: 113.43 MB/s * GitLab tickets: 171 issues including... * open: 125 * backlog: 26 * next: 13 * doing: 7 * (closed: 2075) * number of Trac tickets migrated to GitLab: 32401 * last Trac ticket ID created: 34451 * planned buster upgrades completion date: 2020-08-11 Only 3 nodes left to upgrade to buster: troodi (trac), gayi (svn) and rude (RT). Upgrade prediction graph still lives at https://help.torproject.org/tsa/howto/upgrades/ Now also available as the main Grafana dashboard. Head to <https://grafana.torproject.org/>, change the time period to 30 days, and wait a while for results to render. -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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