#Planet Gnome

Been a while since GUADEC 2018 has ended but subsequent travels and tasks reduced the time to write up a quick summary of what happened during this year’s GNOME conference. The topics I’d like to emphasize mainly are: We’re hiring another Infrastructure Team member We’ve successfully finalized the cgit to GitLab migration Future plans including the migration to Openshift GNOME Foundation hirings With the recent donation of 1M the Foundation has started recruiting on a variety of different new professional roles including a new Infrastructure team member. [Read More]

I haven’t been blogging so much in the past months as I actually promised myself I would have but given the fact a lot has been done on the GNOME Infrastructure lately it’s time for me to announce all the updates we did since my latest blog post. So here we come with all the items we’ve been looking at recently: Our main LDAP istance was moved from a very ancient machine (which unfortunately died with a broken disk a few weeks ago) to a newer box that currently contains several other admin tools like Mango and Daily Reports. [Read More]

It’s been more than a month now since I started looking into the many outstanding items we had waiting on our To Do list here at the GNOME Infrastructure. A lot has been done and a lot has yet to come during the next months, but I would like to share with you some of the things I managed to look at during these weeks. As you may understand many Sysadmin’s tasks are not perceived at all by users especially the ones related to the so-called “Puppet-ization” which refers to the process of creating / modifying / improving our internal Puppet repository. [Read More]

Debian maintainer: Some days ago I had the great announcement that my Debian Maintainer‘s application was accepted and thanks to Jonathan McDowell my key is finally into the debian-maintainers keyring. (which is now part of the debian-keyring itself thanks to the ftp-masters / keyring maintainer work that made the changes on both DAK and keyring) I applied on the 22th of August, and thanks to Reinhard’s advocation, everything went on the right side. [Read More]