There was no meeting this month, here's a short technical report.

# Important announcements

Those are important announcements you might have missed:

* fpcentral will be [retired][] on October 20th 2021, you are encouraged to use EFF's [Cover Your Tracks][] or [TorZillaPrint][] instead, see [ticket 40009][] for background * if you have a precious wiki page from Trac that redirects to some place no one can edit, [we welcome proposals on proper places to redirect those pages][] * we have a reliable [procedure to rename Git branches][] (e.g. to rename from `master` to `main`) globally * we set up a new onionbalance server so we can provide also v3 onion (balanced) services for all of our static websites. See https://onion.torproject.org/ / http://xao2lxsmia2edq2n5zxg6uahx6xox2t7bfjw6b5vdzsxi7ezmqob6qid.onion/ for a full list

[procedure to rename Git branches]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/gitlab/#renaming-a-... [we welcome proposals on proper places to redirect those pages]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40233 [ticket 40009]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40009 [TorZillaPrint]: https://arkenfox.github.io/TZP/ [Cover Your Tracks]: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/, [retired]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-April/003091.html

# Metrics of the month

* hosts in Puppet: 86, LDAP: 89, Prometheus exporters: 140 * number of Apache servers monitored: 28, hits per second: 162 * number of Nginx servers: 2, hits per second: 2, hit ratio: 0.86 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 7 * pending upgrades: 1, reboots: 0 * average load: 0.61, memory available: 1.94 TiB/2.77 TiB, running processes: 565 * bytes sent: 246.89 MB/s, received: 147.97 MB/s * [GitLab tickets][]: 132 tickets including... * open: 0 * icebox: 114 * backlog: 15 * next: 2 * doing: 1 * (closed: 2296)

[Gitlab tickets]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards

# Ticket analysis

| date | open | icebox | backlog | next | doing | closed | delta | sum | new | spill | |------------|------|--------|---------|------|-------|--------|-------|------|------|-------| | 2020-11-18 | 1 | 84 | 32 | 5 | 4 | 2119 | NA | 2245 | NA | NA | | 2020-12-02 | 0 | 92 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 2130 | 11 | 2259 | 14 | -3 | | 2021-01-19 | 0 | 91 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 2165 | 35 | 2298 | 39 | -4 | | 2021-02-02 | 0 | 96 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 2182 | 17 | 2313 | 15 | 2 | | 2021-03-02 | 0 | 107 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 2213 | 31 | 2351 | 38 | -7 | | 2021-04-07 | 0 | 106 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 2225 | 12 | 2364 | 13 | -1 | | 2021-05-03 | 0 | 109 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 2266 | 41 | 2394 | 30 | 11 | | 2021-06-02 | 0 | 114 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 2297 | 31 | 2428 | 34 | -3 | |------------|------|--------|---------|------|-------|--------|-------|------|------|-------| | mean | 0.1 | 99.9 | 19.5 | 7.0 | 5.4 | NA | 22.2 | NA | 22.9 | -0.6 |

Yes, the Icebox is still filling up. Hopefully this will get resolved soon-ish.

Legend:

* date: date of the report * open: untriaged tickets * icebox: tickets triaged in the "icebox" ("stalled") * backlog: triaged, planned work for the "next" iteration (e.g. "next month") * next: work to be done in the current iteration or "sprint" (e.g. currently a month, so "this month") * doing: work being done right now (generally during the day or week) * closed: completed work * delta: number of new closed tickets from last report * sum: total number of tickets * new: tickets created since the last report * spill: difference between "delta" and "new", whether we closed more or less tickets than were created