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On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 12:10 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:35 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Hi, everyone. |
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> > I think it would be really great if we could publish a summary of |
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> > (good) things that happened in Gentoo in 2020. We weren't able to |
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> > maintain Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, nor Monthly. However, we might be |
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> > able to manage at least a yearly Newsletter ;-). |
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> > I know I'm going to regret this but I volunteer to take care of |
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> > combining and publishing the data. Nevertheless, I'd really appreciate |
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> > if you could reply to this mail with ideas of what you think would be |
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> > worth listing. I'd also use a native English speaker for editorial |
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> > help. |
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> > Please reply with your ideas in the form of: |
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> > [sort-key] **A short sentence summarizing the change.** 1-3 sentences |
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> > of detailed explanation. |
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> [infra] Bugzilla DB migration, performance improvements. |
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> We migrated bugzilla to a newer database cluster (mysql galera) and |
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> ported bugzilla from CGI to mod_perl, resulting in a large performance |
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> improvement (sometimes as much as 800ms faster per request.) |
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I think faster Bugzilla actually counts towards a major change ;-). |
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> [infra] CFEngine migration 90% complete. |
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> Infra remains on an older version of cfengine. We have deleted about |
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> 5000 lines of config with 2 major services to migrate off of. We began |
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> using cfengine in 2002; and started using puppet in 2010. In 2021 we |
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> will |
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> be free of cfengine. |
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> [infra] Capacity shuffle. |
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> We turned down 3 machines this year (grebe, grouse, brambling) and |
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> have at least 5 machines to replace in 2021 (gannet, godwit, nightjar, |
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> nightheron, noddie) Most infra machines are around 10 years old. We |
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> onboarded some new machines as well (pardalote, petrel, vanga) and |
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> have additional machines coming online in 2021. In 2020 we renewed our |
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> OSS credits with Amazon Web Services and we signed a contract with |
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> Fastly to provide OSS credits that we are using for CDN services to |
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> make our offerings faster for our users. |
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I think these two would probably be better in 'other changes'. |
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I suppose CDN might also mean improved performance but I don't think we |
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have had noticeably bad performance before. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |