Project Development Meeting (IF4.31 10:00 - 12:00) - Minutes 2014-02-05

Present: Craig, Graham, Toby, Alastair, Neil, Stephen, Alison, George, Ian, Gordon, Iain, 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]
• 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]
  • Look at the support contact page to see if we can migrate into Drupal. [Action Alastair]
• Deploy Git/Gerrit as full services
  • Make a change to iptables to restrict further ssh from the host. Done.
  • 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. Still considering. [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 Toby]
• Windows 7 Upgrade
  • Take to CEG for ratification. Done.

New actions this meeting.

• Password strength checks
  • Speak to Kenny to get an update on status. [Action George]
• Account reconciliation
  • Setup a process to snapshot our UIDs every six months or so. [Action Toby]
• Deploy Git/Gerrit as full services
  • Circulate documentation. [Action Craig]

3. Approved Projects

See Activity with annotated comments from meeting.

4. Project Status Changes

• Further AFS development and automation - Signed Off
• Display SAT info on AT foyer display screens - Signed Off

5. System Blog Articles

• Git

6. Technical Talk

Alastair did a talk about systemd in SL7.

7. AOB

-- TimColles - 03 Mar 2014