[tech] Tech/Wheel Meeting 2023-04-11 18:30 - One hour reminder

James Arcus jimbo at ucc.asn.au
Tue Apr 11 18:46:56 AWST 2023


Hi all tech folks,

My apologies, I forgot that a regular monthly commitment of mine had 
been brought forward a week this month.

Having a look at the agenda, here's what I have to add:

  * I haven't (either on my own or with [BRD]) contacted UWA IT about IP
    addressing changes, either about routing new IPs or unfirewalling
    the no-longer-in-use addresses that are currently dead after the
    incident last year.
  * I completed (with help from [MTL]) the migration of UCC emails away
    from using the UWA IronPort appliances to use forwardemail.net
    inbound and direct sending outbound.
      o This was coordinated with Daniel from UWA IT to correspond with
        their shutdown of the IronPort service.
  * I broke Mailfish (with help from [I2N], and thanks to [MTL] for
    fixing it) by trying to install "jq" as a simple offshoot of the
    above, and also by misreading the APT output.
  * I (virtually) met with Steven from UWA IT, who is currently trying
    to "clean up" the UWA DNS zones, specifically the records in their
    Infoblox appliances which serve on-campus authoritative DNS.
      o He had questions about the use of
        (ucc|unigames|unisfa).(guild|gu).uwa.edu.au.
      o Reiterated that we still rely on GU.
      o TODO: Figure out what (if anything) is wanted with
        (unigames|unisfa).(guild|gu).uwa.edu.au.
      o TODO: Figure out what our view on split DNS for internal vs UWA
        vs external, and report back to Steven with our goals.

Cheers,

James [MPT]/
UCC Wheel Member/

On 11/4/23 17:30, tech-reminder at ucc.asn.au wrote:
> Tech/Wheel Meeting Agenda - Tuesday 2023-04-11T18:30
> ====================================================
> - VENUE: UCC Clubroom
>    - and online athttps://meetings.ucc.asn.au/b/tech
>
> *Meeting opened HH:MM*
>
> ## Attendance
> - Present
> - Apologies [NTU]
> - Absent
>
> ## Next meeting
> - Schedule next meeting
>    - *day 2023-mm-ddTHH:MM
> - ACTION: [???] shall be this meeting's secretary! This entails recording minutes for meeting n (beware mid-meeting glitches) and ensuring meeting n+1 reminders succeed:
>    - Checklist follows:
>      - Clone a new issue from [[https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/UCC/tech-todo-list/-/issues/32]]
>        - Preferably immediately; then reopen it and assign it to yourself
>        - This issue is to keep track of any async secretarial duties detailed ahead
>        - Type `/clone` into the "Write a comment" box as a "quick action"
>        - Update the title to match today's date
>    - [ ] ACTION: Save and commit the minutes of today's meeting, during the meeting; and at the end
>    - [ ] ACTION: Set and (later) verify reminders of next meeting:
>      - [ ] Promptly update `agenda.next` with the TIME/DATE/VENUE
>      - [ ] Perform initial curation of `agenda.next`, and move any previous or longstanding action items out of it and into GitLab (see Action Items section below)
>      - [ ] Update the crontab: `motsugo# crontab -e`
>      - [ ] Check at T-7days that the notice really went out, fix for T-4days if needed
> - [ ] Everyone, before next meeting: Curate `agenda.next`, and move any items you think should be tracked as GitLab issues into GitLab issues, as above
>
> ## Optional items - choose at the start of the meeting
> - [ ] Ethical guidelines
> - [ ] Monitoring
> - [ ] Backups
> - [ ] Password rotations
> - [ ] New members
> - [ ] Quick check of ChangeLog
> - [ ] Lessons learnt
>
> ## Current Action Items
> - ACTION: [333] Research Proxmox Backup Appliance - should fit in well with our existing PVE environment.
> - ACTION: [MPT] and [BRD] draft an email about IPs.
> - ACTION: [MPT] organise meeting about Guild Subdomains and drag [GPO] and others along for the future	
> - ACTION: [I2N] will add libcrack/haveibeenpwned API to `ucc-adduser`
> - ACTION: [MPT] and [BRD] to email UWA IT about unfirewalling firewalled IPs, as they're not blocking anything useful, it's just inconvenient at this point.
> - ACTION: After O-Day (April), do network shenanigans. (next wheel meeting)
> - ACTION: [333] and [GPO] to read up on Ceph shenanigans and PVE in-place upgrade documentation.
>
>
>
> ### Boilerplate
> - Now maintained in GitLab at [[https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/UCC/tech-todo-list/-/issues/]]
> - Briefly discuss anything in here that's worth discussing, but don't spend too long rehashing unresolved issues that have already been discussed ;)
> - Going forward:
>    - New actions: when new ACTION items arise, put them in the minutes once, but add to GitLab
>    - Ongoing actions: don't keep them in the agenda, unless they definitely need to be discussed in the next meeting
>    - Completed actions: mention in the agenda that it's been completed, and and briefly discuss if need be
>
> ### Action items to discuss
>
> ## Known Broken Stuff
> - Debian upgrade kills mailman
>    - Mailman is dead, long live mailman3
>    - We should look into upgrading to mailman3, and look at porting our homebrew patches for mailmail3.
>    - We shouldn't be using things that use python2 now that it is no longer supported either.
>
>
> ## Matters arising previously
>    
>
> ## Extra items (rename/refile as appropriate)
>
>
> *Meeting closed HH:MM*
>
>
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