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Reminder: Heroes meeting on Thursday
by Christian Boltz 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Hello, happy new year! The next heroes meeting will be on Thursday (2023-01-05) at 19:00 UTC / 20:00 CET in https://meet.opensuse.org/heroes See https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/121288 for the meeting topics - there's already one more than usual. Feel free to add topics you want to discuss. Regards, Christian Boltz -- > ... und der bildschirm unter kde3 ist sauschnell geworden im > vergleich zur 7.3. Upps. Muß ich 'was b'sonderes beachten? Ich dachte eigentlich, daß der Monitor mit seinen 34 Kg nicht so schnell abhaut ... :-) [> Holger Poggel und Michael Nausch in suse-linux]

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mirrors.o.o - no indicator to tell if a mirror supports rsync?
by Per Jessen 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

I was looking for something else when I suddenly realised our mirrors status page does not indicate whether a mirror supports rsync. Bug, oversight ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.8°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes

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[oS-heroes] Comment about some mail list software that might be of interest
by Carlos E. R. 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just read on linux-xfs(a)vger.kernel.org mail list about the creation of a new mail list, on a new server at https://lists.linux.dev. And a comment said: "using something a bit more modern than Majordomo for list management," I don't know what is that new software. The pages there mention "Sphinx 1.2.3 & Alabaster"; the former is a Python Documentation Generation, so that's not it; Alabaster is a theme for the same. There is some mention of "public-inbox" I thought that keeping track of mailing list software could be interesting to us :-) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE Leap 15.4 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHYEARECADYWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY6SsWBgcY2FybG9zLmUu ckBvcGVuc3VzZS5vcmcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VE7QCeKOpSMHjGwf6/yH+eJMJ7VvWC fRQAn2fetvEriIluo2lMZSS25xxhSX+U =Iltm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mirroring aarch64 repo
by Ish Sookun 17 Dec '22

17 Dec '22

Hi folks, I am mirroring the Leap 15.4 aarch64 ISO and repo directories. I notice that the path ports/aarch64/distribution/leap/15.4/repo/oss contains directories/files for x86_64, s390x and ppc architectures. I am trying to understand what is the difference between the files in these two paths then — distribution/leap/15.4/repo/oss ports/aarch64/distribution/leap/15.4/repo/oss ... since both of them have aarch64 and the other architectures? Regards, Ish Sookun

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can't submit post to "Discourse" forum
by Felix Miata 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Is the forum software installation supposedly done? Assuming yes, my first post would have been approximately as follows: Awful. There's no place to click to send a composed post!!! Infinite page length, the bane of Facebook, a monster RAM gobbler. Much too much whitespace/padding, needlessly reduced room for legible text. Crashed SeaMonkey trying to view page source, within 5 minutes of opening. Great feature of old software missing: genuine timestamps in threads page that don't require hovering with a magnifier to see date or time. Related: was no need to hover to see name of OP. URI while composing is not unique compared to simply viewing the selected forum for composing the new post. Horrible new feature: un-maxed input window extends below the screen, with a height of only ~40% of viewport height. https://paste.opensuse.org/89108535 Space wasted displaying formatted output instead of a nice ample input window, that when hidden, doesn't expand input window to window width. https://paste.opensuse.org/49642153 -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Meeting minutes
by Christian Boltz 01 Dec '22

01 Dec '22

Hello, here are the minutes of today's meeting: gitlab.i.o.o: * gitlab update broke MRs in (reproducable, but different) funny ways * using a ramdisk for gitlab runner slightly improved CI, we'll keep this forum migration: * scheduled for Dec 11th-14th * needs someone who changes DNS (to proxy.o.o) and haproxy config (to discourse) on Dec 11th at midnight redesign of login page: * no complaints so far, so probably everybody is happy ;-) TSP: * upgraded to work with rails 5.0, needs more work for upgrading to rails 5.5 * fixed https://github.com/openSUSE/travel-support-program/issues/134 DNS: * two of our public DNS servers had issues (one because of a full disk, the other because of an IP conflict with an old - accidentially started - VM. Both fixed. paste.o.o: * looking for a replacement * ideally don't break the API used by susepaste Regards, Christian Boltz -- I propose an Internet law: Jay's Law: Any product released by a technology company with "Smart" in it's name will do stupid things. [Jay Hennigan in mailop]

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Reminder: Heroes meeting on Thursday
by Christian Boltz 01 Dec '22

01 Dec '22

Hello, the next heroes meeting will be on Thursday (2022-12-01) at 19:00 UTC / 20:00 CET in https://meet.opensuse.org/heroes So far, the meeting ticket https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/119869 lists the usual tickets. Feel free to add your topics - or just bring them up in the meeting. Regards, Christian Boltz -- Das ist halt der Unterschied: Unix ist ein Betriebssystem mit Tradition, die anderen sind einfach von sich aus unlogisch. [Anselm Lingnau]

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Meeting minutes
by Christian Boltz 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Hello, here are the minutes of today's meeting: LCP: done some test migrations for forums: worked better than expected bmwiedemann: download.o.o staging issues: we create a nice merged TW tree in /srv/ftp but everyone rsyncs from /srv/ftp-stage with only the new TW -> users getting 404 errors - maybe from files just deleted in the sync -> /srv/ftp has a merged tree including slightly older packages (deletion is delayed). Consider to direct mirrors to mirror that instead of ftp-stage. leap updates OTOH are not staged at all and cause spikes on downloadcontent caches Per reports on IRC that the steaks are ready providing https certificates for *.infra.o.o was broken, fixed yesterday. Note that it requires re-registering with crtmgr to get a new certificate. (Fixed on all hosts known to use a *.infra.o.o cert.) some internal DNS zones left in FreeIPA look unused, disabled now identification VM might have had working ipsilon theming support ; something in salt: apache alias ui, alias theme https:// gitlab.infra.opensuse.org/infra/salt/-/blob/ 5c843d1798fe74aa9278d9e66e574a08de0dda7e/salt/profile/identification/files/ sso.opensuse.org.conf https://gitlab.infra.opensuse.org/infra/salt/-/ blob/5c843d1798fe74aa9278d9e66e574a08de0dda7e/salt/profile/identification/ files/ipsilon.conf backup of old identification.i.o.o image is on backup.i.o.o:/backup/raw if needed code.o.o shows lots of debug output on "git push" - needs investigation code.o.o testhighstate shows differences (for example in the nginx config) - needs review and updating in salt Regards, Christian Boltz -- Bitte sende kein "postconf -n", so wie alles es tun. Das macht es nur unnötig einfach zu helfen. [Patrick Ben Koetter in postfixbuch-users]

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Reminder: Heroes meeting on Thursday
by Christian Boltz 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Hello, the next heroes meeting will be on Thursday, 2022-11-03 at 19:00 UTC / 20:00 CET in https://meet.opensuse.org/heroes Note that Europe switched to CET, therefore the UTC time changed to 19:00 UTC. As usual, feel free to add topics to the meeting ticket https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/117670 or just bring them up in the meeting. Regards, Christian Boltz -- Man kann ohne Übertreibung sagen, dass die einstmals große Verbreitung des Flash Player in umgekehrt proportionalem Verhältnis zur Reputation der Software unter Security-Gesichtspunkten stand. [https://www.heise.de/-5034041.html]

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improving download.o.o
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 12 Oct '22

12 Oct '22

Hi, as you might know, pontifex2 aka download.o.o serves 4 major roles atm. 1. download.opensuse.org redirector for zypper repos 2. downloadcontent.opensuse.org fallback mirror 3. stage.opensuse.org rsync source server for major mirrors 4. repopusher to 6 mirrors During August, my nagios monitoring has logged at least 20+10+20+19+22+70+30+10+20+10+10 minutes of high packet loss on download.o.o - that is 241m or 4h When I captured a tcpdump during such a troublesome moment, I found that 89% of it was rsync traffic and the total traffic sent was between 2.5 and 3 GBit/s on average, with 60 different mirror IPs. We only have a 4GBit/s link there shared for all of the Nuremberg SUSE Maxtorhof stuff. That indicates that 3. and 4. above saturated the link and that contibuted to high packet loss that makes for a very poor user-experience of download.o.o users. With 60 mirrors rsyncing simultaneously at 3GBit, that leaves around 6 MByte/s for each mirror and that means, syncing just 122GB of Factory takes over 5h. [Math 122000/(3000.0/8/60)/60/60 => 5.4 ] To solve this, we should try to separate these roles so that they conflict less with each other. The first thing we should try is to move out and split stage.o.o . Ideally, the data should be transferred only once to each continent via repopusher and then other mirrors pull from these primary mirrors. Another easy improvement might be to serve download.o.o via mirrorcache from another network. This might not even need much bandwidth as it mostly serves redirects. I'd like to have Andrii's opinion on this, once he is back from vacation. As this is a major change to our download infra, I don't want to decide on that alone, so I'd appreciate your feedback if and how we should change things. Ciao Bernhard M.

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