Re: Call for contribution to the Guix infrastructure

[Wilko Meyer <w@wmeyer.eu>]

Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>       - Improve infra monitoring: set up a dashboard to monitor all the
>         infrastructure, and an out-of-band channel to communicate about
>         downtime.
...
>       - Support mirroring: We’d like to make it easy for others to
>         mirror substitutes from ci.guix and bordeaux.guix, perhaps by
>         offering public rsync access.
...
>     We’re also looking for people who’d be willing to have SSH access to
>     some of the infrastructure to help with day-to-day maintenance:
>     restarting a build, restarting the occasional service that has gone
>     wild (that can happen :-)), reconfiguring/upgrading a machine,
>     rebooting, etc.

I think I could spare a couple of hours per week (approx. 4-5h
most of the time realistically with availability in the earlier morning
hours and around the evening, my current timezone is CEST) to assist
with these tasks, especially with maintenance/sysadmin things and with
uptime/infrastructure monitoring if help's still needed for these things.

Even though:

>     Prerequisite: Being a “known” member of the community, familiarity
>     with Guix System administration, with some of the services/web sites
>     being run, and with the infrastructure handbook:
>     <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/infra-handbook.org>.

I've been only around for a bit more than a year in this community, so
it's up to others to decide wether I already count as a "known" member
or not.

-- 
Kind regards,

Wilko Meyer
w@wmeyer.eu