Hello!
I'm your new friendly sysadmin! I hope I'm doing good. I'm also not a bot and should be able to pass a turing test on a good day. ;)
I've so far prioritized my work mostly towards sysadmin-specific stuff (like rebuilding parts of the broken monitoring system and generally get up to speed with everything), but I'm sensitive to priorities people from the Tor project express, obviously...
One of those recurring issue I've heard (other than "OMG Trac is pain!" of course) is that "MeetBot is down!" The service is ran by the good folks at Debian, but has fallen somewhat in disarray in recent years. All the gory details are of course in Trac:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29680
... but the short story is that I've considered setting up a replacement when the service was completely offline. Since then, the Debian folks brought the machine back up (you can see logs at http://meetbot.debian.net/) but the bot is still struggling to return. I am hoping they bring it back up themselves and restore the service. If that doesn't happen, I might squat a VM somewhere to restore some sort of service myself within TPO.
But considering the number of things I'm juggling with right now, I'd be very happy with not adding a new service to the list on my first (well, second) week on the job. So I hope people don't mind the little extra wait while the good folks at Debian figure out what they want to do with the service in the long term.
As weasel says, we don't want to reimplement all the services on the internet ourselves, do we? :) So if that problem can be fixed itself, I'll be more than happy than watch it heal.
If not, we'll figure something out.
Note that I've made sure the ArchiveBot (from ArchiveTeam) takes a look at the site so we have a copy as well in the Internet Archive.
See you around!
A.
PS: the best place to report problems like this is still Trac. File a ticket in the "Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team" and I'll definitely look at it.
As an alternative to meetbot - in the future - maybe we could consider logbot? https://mozilla.logbot.info/
I have found it very helpful and feature full, with full text search online.
We could invite it only for meetings, and/or we could start publicly logging public channels.
-tom
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:03 PM Antoine Beaupré anarcat@torproject.org wrote:
Hello!
I'm your new friendly sysadmin! I hope I'm doing good. I'm also not a bot and should be able to pass a turing test on a good day. ;)
I've so far prioritized my work mostly towards sysadmin-specific stuff (like rebuilding parts of the broken monitoring system and generally get up to speed with everything), but I'm sensitive to priorities people from the Tor project express, obviously...
One of those recurring issue I've heard (other than "OMG Trac is pain!" of course) is that "MeetBot is down!" The service is ran by the good folks at Debian, but has fallen somewhat in disarray in recent years. All the gory details are of course in Trac:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29680
... but the short story is that I've considered setting up a replacement when the service was completely offline. Since then, the Debian folks brought the machine back up (you can see logs at http://meetbot.debian.net/) but the bot is still struggling to return. I am hoping they bring it back up themselves and restore the service. If that doesn't happen, I might squat a VM somewhere to restore some sort of service myself within TPO.
But considering the number of things I'm juggling with right now, I'd be very happy with not adding a new service to the list on my first (well, second) week on the job. So I hope people don't mind the little extra wait while the good folks at Debian figure out what they want to do with the service in the long term.
As weasel says, we don't want to reimplement all the services on the internet ourselves, do we? :) So if that problem can be fixed itself, I'll be more than happy than watch it heal.
If not, we'll figure something out.
Note that I've made sure the ArchiveBot (from ArchiveTeam) takes a look at the site so we have a copy as well in the Internet Archive.
See you around!
A.
PS: the best place to report problems like this is still Trac. File a ticket in the "Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team" and I'll definitely look at it.
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On 2019-03-12 06:23:25, Tom Ritter wrote:
As an alternative to meetbot - in the future - maybe we could consider logbot? https://mozilla.logbot.info/
I have found it very helpful and feature full, with full text search online.
We could invite it only for meetings, and/or we could start publicly logging public channels.
Well, that's a whole other ballgame, for one. Second, it doesn't seem to support "meeting" features like agenda, chair, and so on. And finally, MeetBot is back in the channel, so you can have your meetings as before.
I've heard on the #meetbot channel that OFTC might take on maintainership of the service as well, so the future is bright for our little fellow...
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