openSUSE admin

2021-07-06 heroes meeting

• postgresql database issues in the last weeks should be fixed (downgraded to postgresql 12 for now)
• internal network issues caused short outages last week (caused by a misconfigured switch, fixed in the meantime)
• matrix problems
  • federated messages are delayed or lost
  • some encrypted chats cannot be decrypted - need to drop/renew keys in Elements
• ssh forward for pagure was silently removed because non-interactive updates are not done
• automatic updates should be done via cron-job applied via salt
• board wants calendar system deployed ; also for Doc ; fedora's fedocal https://calendar.fedoraproject.org/
• discourse related to vbulletin migration
  • Adrien + Jens want to help ; https://code.opensuse.org/heroes/salt
  • needs some packaging work
  • and data migration
• Adrien proposed unified API for querying openSUSE services for bots+users ; auth with id.opensuse.org openid or openidc
• add an equivalent of Fedora badges for recognizing openSUSE users across different platforms
• Telegram bots:
  • unify using above API
  • Jens' bot is already modular (https://github.com/KaratekHD/Nemesis)
  • problems in one module can break the whole thing, but output will point towards the bad module
  • there is a bot to search packages
  • one CAPTCHA bot
  • one doc search bot
• forums DDoS on 2021-07-05 from Chinese IPs