Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] 'Gentoo in 2020' summary

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 12:10 -0800, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:35 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, everyone.
> > 
> > I think it would be really great if we could publish a summary of
> > (good) things that happened in Gentoo in 2020.  We weren't able to
> > maintain Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, nor Monthly.  However, we might be
> > able to manage at least a yearly Newsletter ;-).
> > 
> > I know I'm going to regret this but I volunteer to take care of
> > combining and publishing the data.  Nevertheless, I'd really appreciate
> > if you could reply to this mail with ideas of what you think would be
> > worth listing.  I'd also use a native English speaker for editorial
> > help.
> > 
> > 
> > Please reply with your ideas in the form of:
> > 
> > [sort-key] **A short sentence summarizing the change.**  1-3 sentences
> > of detailed explanation.
> 
> 
> [infra] Bugzilla DB migration, performance improvements.
> We migrated bugzilla to a newer database cluster (mysql galera) and
> ported bugzilla from CGI to mod_perl, resulting in a large performance
> improvement (sometimes as much as 800ms faster per request.)

I think faster Bugzilla actually counts towards a major change ;-).

> 
> [infra] CFEngine migration 90% complete.
> Infra remains on an older version of cfengine. We have deleted about
> 5000 lines of config with 2 major services to migrate off of. We began
> using cfengine in 2002; and started using puppet in 2010. In 2021 we
> will
> be free of cfengine.
> 
> [infra] Capacity shuffle.
> We turned down 3 machines this year (grebe, grouse, brambling) and
> have at least 5 machines to replace in 2021 (gannet, godwit, nightjar,
> nightheron, noddie) Most infra machines are around 10 years old. We
> onboarded some new machines as well (pardalote, petrel, vanga) and
> have additional machines coming online in 2021. In 2020 we renewed our
> OSS credits with Amazon Web Services and we signed a contract with
> Fastly to provide OSS credits that we are using for CDN services to
> make our offerings faster for our users.
> 

I think these two would probably be better in 'other changes'.
I suppose CDN might also mean improved performance but I don't think we
have had noticeably bad performance before.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny