Saturday 23 September 2023 Termcom Meeting

Notes

WATIAM of the maintainer/person doing the task is placed beside the item list
To Termcom: feel free to volunteer yourself for anything below! Some things may require more subject domain knowledge and so on, but more senior Syscom members would be interested in helping!

Determine new server specs
Recap Mirror Upgrade Parts
- Upgrade BOM
- Where are the parts?
- Upgrade Logistics - mirror downtime??
- Server Room Logistics
CSCF contact for hardware purchase
- get hardware quotes
Mirror checker
- Push latest source @n4chung
- Implement remaining/missing checkers @????
- Deploy to staging/prod?
Faculty/CSCF Inheritance
- Potentially new servers (from last term) - they seem busy with their own things too
- Netapp integration (from CSCF)
Server Rack/Room Installation
- Helping hands? we need some people to bring the heavy server stuff around
- Server Room Access
- Rearranging servers - the NetApp fills a full 42U?? (It's huge)

Pyceo Issues (Notable Ones) https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/public/pyceo
- #101 - Validate usernames of new members https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/public/pyceo/issues/101
  - Should be straightforward and be good for learning about CSC infrastructure
- #99 - TLS certificates for expired members' custom domains should get deleted https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/public/pyceo/issues/99
  - IMPORTANT: for allowing members to use CSC's limited IPs for port forwarding??
- #87 - Automate custom domain VHOST support in CSC Cloud https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/public/pyceo/issues/87
  - Almost done... need to finish implementing some CI tests
- #102 - Add tracing https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/public/pyceo/issues/102
Certbot: fix errors coming from two domains (expired raymo and WICS?)
Kubernetes: sketchy PV (persistent volume) setup
CEO WebUI
- Membership Website Verification (with Webcom)
- ... (I think I missed something here) @Max
CSC Cloud Port Forwarding @j24chung
- Allow members to
Club Custom Web Stack @e226li
- "It's 2023"... it shouldn't be this sketch

Mailing List Moderation (Spam) Rotation Schedule
- Termcom could help moderate...
- Put mail in a "shared" location? Nextcloud?!?
- Rorate every two weeks?
- (Could mailman "intelligently" forward emails??)

Observability Stack: revamp logging
X99 Office Terminal
- Requires decent GNU/Linux knowledge
- Install Debian
- Configure to use (potentially sussy) CSC infrastructure