[Systems] Google Code-in Tasks (Sysadmin)

[Bernie Innocenti]

I'd be glad to offer guidance for any of these tasks, but can't take an
official mentoring role because I'm still supposed to minimize typing
even at work.

On 11/13/2015 04:12 PM, Martin Abente wrote:
> Hey Sam,
> 
> Just send me the email addresses and Ill invite them for you, I already
> sent Samuel C. an invite.
> 
> Martin.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Sam P. <sam at sam.today
> <mailto:sam at sam.today>> wrote:
> 
>     Great, I just added the tasks.  I don't know how to add people as
>     mentors, I don't see that button.  Maybe Walter is admin and has it?
> 
>     On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Sam P. <sam at sam.today
>     <mailto:sam at sam.today>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi Samuel,
> 
>         Those tasks look great!  I did not see anything on the gci site
>         talking about these kind of tasks.  Maybe we need to ask on irc
>         if we get accepted.
> 
>         Also, maybe we could add a task for a sugar3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3
>         docs rebuilder?
> 
>         Title:  Sugar3 documentation rebuilder
>         Category:  Coding
>         Beginner:  No
>         Description:
> 
>         In this cycle, we have introduced api documentation for the
>         sugar3 api.  This documentation is generated using sphinx.
> 
>         Your task is to create a rebuilder docker container, modeled off
>         our existing rebuilder [1][2].  It must have the correct
>         dependencies or mocks installed for the documentation generator
>         to run successfully (sphinx imports all the modules, which in
>         turn import Gtk, etc.).  The html output should be placed in a
>         volume accessible on the host.
> 
>         [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs-infra/help-rebuilder
>         [2] https://github.com/sugarlabs-infra/developer-rebuilder
> 
>         Thanks,
>         Sam
> 
> 
>         On Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 4:20 AM Samuel Cantero
>         <scanterog at gmail.com <mailto:scanterog at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>             Hello guys!
> 
>             Bernie and I have been thinking about some tasks for the GCI
>             contest. As Martin (tch) said in another email, we should
>             double check these tasks are "compatible" with the contest
>             topics.
> 
>             Below the first draft:
> 
>             *Title*: Analyze and optimize the Sugar Labs wiki performance.
>             *Category*: Research / QA / Other?
>             *Description*:
>             The main documentation for the Sugar Labs organization is
>             placed in the Sugar Labs wiki. Speeding up the wiki access
>             is important for the community.
>             Analyze and optimize our wiki using Google PageSpeed Tools.
>             Get a score of 85 or above for the Sugar Labs wiki.
> 
>             Google PageSpeed URL: https://developers.google.com/speed/ 
> 
> 
>             *Title*: New mailing list for Sugar Labs.
>             *Category*: Research / Other?
>             *Description*:
>             In Sugar Labs, as most open source organizations, we use
>             mailing lists to communicate with one another. Currently, we
>             are using mailman 2. 
>             Make some research, for example among other open source
>             organizations, to propose at least one new open source
>             package to deploy a new mailing list for Sugar Labs.
>             Implement the chosen software using Docker containers.
> 
>             *Title*: Write a Munin plugin to monitor network resource
>             usage on Docker containers
>             *Category*: Coding
>             *Description*:
>             In Sugar Labs, we use Docker container to host important
>             services. Monitoring the resource usage is critical for the
>             infrastructure health. We have written a Munin plugin to
>             monitor CPU and memory usage on Docker containers. The next
>             step is  to monitor the network usage on our Docker
>             containers. This tasks requires writing a Munin plugin,
>             preferably in Perl, for monitoring network resource usage on
>             Docker containers.
> 
>             Docker runtime metrics:
>             https://docs.docker.com/articles/runmetrics/ 
>             Git Repo: https://github.com/scanterog/munin-plugin-docker
> 
>             Maybe I have to create a new repo for this on the
>             sugarlabs-infra git organization.
> 
>             *Title*: High availability in our Docker infrastructure.
>             *Category*: Research / Other?
>             *Description*:
>             In Sugar Labs, mainly we use Virtual Machines and Docker
>             containers to host our main services. We want you to test
>             the Docker Swarm functionality in order to create a Docker
>             cluster.
> 
>             For this task, you will have two clean Ubuntu VMs in order
>             to install and configure the Docker Swarm. We will provide
>             you also two Docker images. In order to complete the task,
>             the docker cluster and the failover functionality must be
>             working.
> 
>             Any advice is welcome.
> 
>             Regards,
> 
>             Samuel C.
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> 
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