This Week

• Alastair
  • Inventory project
    • continue working through TartarusWorkFlow
    • complete new order file processing code and deploy into existing system
    • document new parser and API and integrate testing into RPM package
  • Need to remove default bridge from kvmtool create
    • make necessary changes to live/mpu_kvm_server.h (support both methods)
  • Remove default pool if ops meeting agrees
  • Schedule firmware upgrade for DS3254
  • Look at SL6 install hang - speak to Carol - possibly LCFG bug #877 ??
  • Revisit upstream package list sync - script doesn't work => needs updated for SL6.5 and later
  • Blog the final SL7 project report
  • Take creation of mdp-installbase profiles to LCFG deployer's meeting (bug #878) (On July meeting agenda)
  • Looking at adding extra disks to an LVM pool and to a KVM pool.
  • Add support to kvmreport to flag if /var/libvirtd doesn't have sufficient space for suspending all guests - also in web report
  • Talk to Phil Wadler about machine upgrade - ask for a list of software he requires built
  • Look at use of i386 under SL6 - is any required27 active hosts, not including test and build hosts - list circulated
  • Experiment with different window managers under VNC (making the assumption that performance under NX will be similar)

• Chris
  • url shortener
    • Talk at development meeting
  • Inventory project
    • continue working through TartarusWorkFlow
    • code review parser
  • Finish work on SL 7.1
  • Look at pkgsearch for SL7
  • Deploy azul (new KVM server)
  • Double check that we have no SSL certificates to deploy (and remove from meeting page if none)
  • Review MPU server rack locations (ala OPs meeting action)

• Stephen
  • LCFG client refactor stage 1
    • schedule debrief meeting
  • LCFG client refactor stage 2
    • finish off C code
  • Think about PD - Interested in ZeroMQ
  • Add extra memory to waterloo (and if those work, order up more memory for hammersmith)
  • Finish off window manager selector code
  • !PkgForge -> 7.1
  • Update pxe installroot (to deploy new version of lcfginstall (0.106.2)

-- AlastairScobie - 30 Jun 2015