Re: Hello all

On 12/05/2012 10:10 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > On 12/03/2012 02:05 PM, Alexander Rydekull wrote: >> I havnt really properly introduced myself. My name is Alexander >> Rydekull, >> can be seen at IRC as Rydekull. I am computer professional from >> Sweden with >> a big interest in Open Source. >> >> Professionally I work as a consultant for an IBM Premier Business >> Partner >> and also a Red Hat Partner(too mention a few partnerships) named >> EnjoyIT. >> >> I have been using Linux since 2001 and working with it in some form >> since >> 2004. I am a sysadmin by heart and I do not do programming, I script. I >> have experience from all kinds of different infrastructures, both small >> 1-box shops to large installations of 1000+ servers. >> >> I have offered to help out with the infrastructural parts of oVirt since >> like I mentioned before, I dont code, but I want to contribute to Open >> Source projects I believe in. oVirt certainly is one of those projects. >> >> I talked to quaid and he asked me to mail the list and introduce >> myself, so >> here I am. > > Howdy! And welcome. > > I was happy to see that you are interested in learning new tech. One of > the great things about being a sysadmin contributor to a FOSS project is > playing with technologies that you don't get to use in your regular > $dayjob work. > > Rydekull is interested in learning about Gerrit. I think this is great, > because our Gerrit knowledge across this team is scant - it's mainly > Itamar who maintains it. > > Itamar - what do you think about doing some knowledge transfer about > Gerrit to the rest of the Infra team? We could have a special > meeting/sprint on IRC to teach the basics, show how our setup is run > (which helps us get it better documented), talk about future plans, and > so forth. As Alexander is new, it would be good to figure out non-root > things that can be done. Such as: > > * Improve "as-is" documentation. > * Write up standard procedures (SOP) for dealing with Gerrit. I hope to get to this in a few weeks, a bit overloaded right now. gladly, UI is available for most tasks now (other than removing duplicate users...) > * Review the scripts, backup procedures, how Jenkins interacts, etc., > and suggest or build improvements. this would be good. but actually i think you know more about this than i do? other than the backup/security audit by you, i try to once a month also take a snapshot backup and do yum update. also from time to time, running git-exproll to improve performance of the server. > * Work on the Puppet manifest for the future Gerrit host. I think i provided the steps i did for installing it, i can give them again (i.e., i think we already wikified that part?) > * Etc. > > How does that all sound to folks? >