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---+ LCFG Deployers' Monthly Meetings 2018

The meetings are typically held on the first Thursday of each month, starting at 2.15pm in the Informatics Forum room 1.15 THIS IS NOT THE SAME ROOM AS 2017. Notes after the meetings are added in italic to the agenda items. See MonthlyMeetings2017 and MonthlyMeetings2016 for notes from earlier meetings.

We aim to review any [[https://bugs.lcfg.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldfrom=35d&list_id=1336&order=bug_id%20DESC&query_format=advanced][Recent bugs]]

---++ 1st November 2018

   * LCFG core speed-up work
   * ksu/kswitch with in-memory credentials caches
   * gluster versus sgeadmin UID/GID problem
   * Withdrawing Scientific Linux 7.3 support
   * New IS slave servers (is https://bugs.lcfg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115 still open and if so, can it be fixed?)
   * AnnualReview2018
   * Alternatives to NoMachine / NX Server (?)
   * Withdrawl of Mac OS support - how to retain history of components and their headers

---++ 4th October 2018

   * [[EL8PortHome][EL8 jottings]]
   * ELK stack
   * XML profile URL rewriting
   * New =lcfg/hw/hp_elitedesk800g4_mini.h=
   * cron component - ACL improvements
   * Annual Review meeting - Thursday 6th December
   * Auth component defaults, e.g. =systemdnetwork= and =systembusproxy= users in =auth.extrapasswd= in MDP layer
   * xrdp - keyboard mapping issues ?
   * systemd logging to console

---++ 6th September 2018

   * k5login component now in lcfg headers
   * Python 3 packages
   * =lcfg/hw/hp_elitedesk800g3_mini.h= includes support for NVME root disk
   * HP G4 - next !SelectPC
   * Branching LCFG Build Tools
   * IS Change Freeze
   * Disabling repos in lcfg-yummy
   * 7.4 support
   * sleep with latest kernel
   * !NaturalDocs problem

---++ 2nd August 2018

   * End of support for SL6

---++ 5th July 2018

   * SL7.5
   * UEFI support
   * GSSAPI auth for lcfg client

---++ 7th June 2018

   $ apacheconf : Various improvements, particularly new groups feature
   $ UEFI : Dealing with machines which do not support legacy BIOS mode
   $ NVM: Whether computers with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express][NVM SSDs]] (such as some HP SelectPCs) can be supported in future?
   $ mysql bug 906: [[https://bugs.lcfg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906][mysqld not always ready when setting root password]]
   $ http pxe: [[PXEBoot]] changes allow much faster initial network boot.

---++ 3rd May 2018

   $ LCFG profile security : New [[https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/DICE/LCFGProfileSecurity][project]] looking into various aspects of enhancing the security of the LCFG profile data.
   $ Privacy : Restricting user access to data from last/w, dmesg, procfs
   $ SL7.5 : Should be released soon.
   $ SL7.4 : Currently testing large set of backported security updates - to join in use =lcfg/options/test_updates.h=
   $ SL7.3 : No more security updates
   $ x509 component: With the change of emphasis to use systemd rather than components to control daemon lifecycles, it would be good to have the x509 component be able to restart/reload daemons via systemctl.


---++ 5th April 2018

   $ LCFG profile security : New [[https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/DICE/LCFGProfileSecurity][project]] looking into various aspects of enhancing the security of the LCFG profile data.
   $ journald retention : Does anyone have any objection to the setting, at the LCFG level, of journald's =MaxRetentionSec= to 1 month by default (with a flag to permit disabling)?
   $ commit hook : Could informatics borrow Kenny's svn pre-commit hook which does simple checks including cpp?
   $ mock and networking : We discovered that with the switch to using nspawn for package builds there is no network access. This can break tests for some packages so the component now has support for enabling the =rpmbuild_networking= option. [[https://bugs.lcfg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054][bug#1054]]
   $ =LCFG::Template= : It is now possible to set an _include path_ which is searched when a relative path is given for a template.
   $ IS Change Freeze : ...and the ISFREEZE release.
   $ IS Recording Open Source contributions : May ask schools and other units for submissions.

---++ 1st March 2018

*CANCELLED*

---++ 1st February 2018

   $ bugs :  We would like to see more bug reports! We all know about various bugs (whether trivial or important) or have features we would like to see. It would be very helpful if we could get these recorded. We can't promise they will get fixed but just having them in [[https://bugs.lcfg.org/]] would be a great start. I propose that to make them more useful and improve response times at each monthly meeting we review all newly submitted bugs from the previous month. 
   $ [[AnnualReview2017][Annual review 2017]] : the bits that we didn't cover
   $ chatroom : We are going to switch to slack for the lcfg chatroom. Hopefully this will result in more people being involved and more useful discussions.
   $ fstab and nvme : The fstab component cannot handle the partition naming scheme for nvme devices - [[https://bugs.lcfg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1025][bug#1025]] - _patch applied_
   $ LCFG server problems : Geosciences and Physics have recently had problems with the LCFG server which required a restart with empty caches - _systemd config altered to start server later_
   $ v4 client : Current status of new client
   $ python: 3.6
   $ pyngi: A python component framework

---+++ Component changes

[[https://svn.lcfg.org/viewvc/source/trunk/?sortby=date#dirlist][Recent source changes]]

   $ lightdm : various stuff...
   $ grub2 : Now starts after kernel component. Also calls =Configure= from =Stop=. grub config should always be correct for the next boot. [[https://bugs.lcfg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026][bug#1026]]
   $ kernel : Now only triggers a rebuild of the initramfs when dracut or systemd package changes. Ignores kernel package changes which are already handled by the post-install script for the package. Generally improved the way the initramfs is rebuilt so that errors are always caught. [[https://bugs.lcfg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034][bug#1034]]
   $ x509 / sixkts : Can now generate SSL certificates which contain _Subject Alternative Name_ information.

---++ 4th January 2018

*CANCELLED*

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Topic revision: r41 - 2019-01-30 - squinney