Project Development Meeting (IF-2.33 10:00 - 12:00) - Minutes 2013-12-04
Present: Ian, Roger, Craig, Iain, George, Stephen, Alison, Neil, Tim (convener and minutes)
1. Minutes of last meeting
Accepted.
2. Matters arising
Update on actions from last meeting.
- Take to CSG policy on not archiving and just deleting accounts after grace period. [Action Alastair]
- Webmark Reform
- Do a demo of prototype. Talk scheduled.
- Do a talk on "connection pooling". Talk scheduled.
- Software Download Portal/Repository: Stage 1s
- Need to raise awareness, e.g. blogging and telling incoming PhD students. Alison will add link from "new user" page on computing.help.
- Redevelop User Documentation
- Submit the skeleton system status summary from Nagios project (for maintaining the status tab). [Action Stephen]
- We should be getting emailed (annually?) when pages we own need to be reviewed. Turn this on. [Action Alison]
- Run a scan of pages in www.dice and wiki.inf/DICE which need to be pulled into computing.help. Done fair bit, ongoing. [Action Chris]
- Look at the support contact page to see if we can migrate into Drupal. [Action Alastair]
- Software Download Portal/Repository: Stage 1s, Redevelop User Documentation
- Take to CEG for ratification. Done.
- Produce project sign-off checklist. Should include (among others) check boxes for end-user and technical documentation having been provided. Has been included in projects review proposals.
- Account reconciliation
- Find email evidence for IS having changed UID values. Done.
- Streaming Media Service Requirements
- Send draft document to IS for comments. Done.
New actions from this meeting:
- Account reconciliation
- Can we use a trigger such as a host drop-off spanning map for a number of weeks to automate host key principal deletion (in some fashion) and could this be part of Prometheus? For consideration and comment. [Action Toby]
- Deploy Git/Gerrit as full services
- Add security header to Git server as ssh will be accessable from outside ed. [Action Craig]
- Use of AFS+SSH to solve end user managed access control means that iFriend write access to Git repositories for collaboration will probably not work as-is (would require full DICE account). Needs consideration (e.g. use https instead) but does not need to block this approach. [Action Craig]
- Review of OpenLDAP DICE client configuration
- Investigate using SSSD minimal cacheing to protect against connectivity issues, although this may just be an action to create a separate project. [Action Ian]
- Securing School Web Servers
- Sends notes from meeting to COs. [Action Neil]
- Options for two-factor authentication
- Include investigation of whether OTP support can be done at the same time. Add to project descriptor. [Action George]
- Windows 7 Upgrade
- Take to CEG for ratification. [Action Tim]
3. Approved Projects
See
Activity with annotated comments from meeting.
4. Project Status Changes
5. System Blog Articles
6. Technical Talk
Postponed until next meeting.
7. AOB
Next months meeting (Jan 1st) will be shifted one week to Jan 8th.
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TimColles - 07 Jan 2014
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