DSA Team (System Administration)
Infrastructure
Website: http://dsa.debian.org and http://db.debian.org
Documentation:
LDAP documentation: http://db.debian.org/doc-general.html
DSA wiki contains most of DSA-related documentation: http://dsa.debian.org
instruction on how to contribute are available in the wiki
Unix group: adm
- Services handled by the team:
- /org/admin.debian.org on spohr.debian.org
- and generally all services which are not handled by another team
Interacting with the team
Read the FAQ first: FAQ
Email contact:
<debian-admin AT debian DOT org>: DSA members (use this address ONLY if the mail contains confidential data). As this address is spammed by cron and other error mails, your mail is likely to be overseen here.
<debian-admin AT lists DOT debian DOT org>: DSA members and local admins of all debian.org machines (use this address for non-confidential data, almost every request falls here)
Request tracker: introduction ( current DSA tickets)
Public IRC channel: none (there's a private channel however)
Members
- Peter Palfrader (weasel)
- Stephen Gran (sgran)
- Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel)
- Luca Filipozzi (lfilipoz)
- Tollef Fog Heen (Mithrandir)
- Faidon Liambotis (paravoid)
Task description
Debian System Administration team members handle the basic infrastructure of the project. They are responsible for tasks that include:
- Maintaining the central user (LDAP) database listing all the Debian developers. This includes:
- account creation and deletion based on requests from the Debian Account Managers
- correlation of GPG keys to the according accounts based on requests from the Debian Keyring Maintainers
- Setting up and administering Debian-owned machines, ensuring that they are kept secure, operational, and running.
- Coordinating with local admins of the machines regarding network connectivity and (if needed) asking for remote hands
- Granting required rights to other developers who need them to maintain a particular service
- Handle standard services like the debian.org email alias that each developer has or keeping DNS up to date
- complete install requests for porter chroots
- maintaining the Debian Machine Usage Policies (DMUP), within the following limits:
- the DMUP cannot directly cause the expulsion of a developer from the project; it can however propose the developer for expulsion to DAM, on the basis of DMUP violation
- changes to the DMUP shall be announced to the debian-devel-announce mailing list at least 2 months in advance with respect to when they are supposed to become effective
Delegation
DSA team members are DPL delegates (as per Debian Constitution ยง8). The current delegation text is available.
Get involved
Find a task in the request-tracker and send a patch.
More stuff
Some documentation
http://dsa.debian.org/howto/backup/ documents how to setup backups with da-backup.
http://dsa.debian.org/howto/new-machine/ describes how to setup a new debian.org host.
http://dsa.debian.org/iana/ is the reference for the Debian OID namespace.
DSA specific software / tools / configuration files
DSA has a package repository with customized/specific software. The corresponding APT sources.list entries are:
deb http://db.debian.org/debian-admin/ lenny main deb-src http://db.debian.org/debian-admin/ lenny main
VCS repositories for DSA can be found at https://db.debian.org/bzr/ and https://db.debian.org/git/. Some mirrors can be found on git.debian.org.
Ideas of things to document
The DSA team doesn't have much documentation. It would be interesting to use this space to provide some more information. Here are some ideas of what could be interesting:
- define what responsibilities local admins have and what is the resort of DSA only
- define criteria of acceptance of new services on debian.org hosts
- explanations on userdir-ldap and how to replicate the setup on db.debian.org
Ongoing Tasks
?Machines hosted in HP's FortCollins Datacenter need to move/shutdown