# Roll call: who's there and emergencies

Hiro and anarcat present in the meeting. Quick chat by mumble do to a check-in and resolve some issues with the installer to setup fsn-node-07 and check overall priorities.

# Roadmap review

We looked at the [issue board][] which excludes GitLab, because that board was processed in the gitlab meeting yesterday.

[issue board]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards

We went through the tickets and did some triage, moving some tickets from `Open` to `Backlog` and some tickets into `Next`. anarcat has no tickets left in `Backlog` because he's going away for a two months leave. hiro will review her ticket priorities within the week.

## GitLab workflow changes

We tried to get used to the new GitLab workflow.

We decided on using the "Next" label to follow the global @tpo convention, although we have not adopted the "Icebox" label yet. The gitlab policy was changed to:

Issues first land into a "triage" queue (`Open`), then get assigned to a specific milestone as the ticket gets planned. We use the `Backlog`, `Next`, and `Doing` of the global "TPO" group board labels. With the `Open` and `Closed` list, this gives us the following policy:

• `Open`: untriaged ticket, "ice box"
• `Backlog`: planned work
• `Next`: work to be done in the next iteration or "sprint" (e.g. currently a month)
• `Doing`: work being done right now (generally during the day or week)
• `Closed`: completed work

That list can be adjusted in the future without formally reviewing this policy.

Priority of items in the lists are determined by the *order* of items in the stack. Tickets should *not* stay in the `Next` or `Doing` lists forever and should instead actively be closed or moved back into the `Open` or `Backlog` board.

Note that those policies are still being discussed in the GitLab project, see [issue 28][] for details.

[issue 28]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/gitlab/-/issues/28

## Exciting work that happened in June

* [Trac migrated to GitLab][] * [TPA wiki][] migrated to GitLab * kvm4 and kvm5 were retired, signaling the end of the "libvirt/KVM" era of our virtual hosting: all critical services now live in Ganeti * lots of buster upgrades happened

[Trac migrated to GitLab]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/gitlab/#migration [TPA wiki]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/

# Hand-off

During the mumble check-in, hiro and anarcat established there was not any urgent issue requiring training or work.

anarcat will continue working on the documentation tickets as much as he can before leaving ([Puppet][], [LDAP][], [static mirrors][]) but will otherwise significantly reduce his work schedule.

[Puppet]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40024 [LDAP]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/34426 [static mirrors]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/34436

# Other discussions

No other discussions were held.

# Next meeting

No next meeting is currently planned, but the next one should normally be held on Wednesday August 5th, according to our normal schedule.

# Metrics of the month

* hosts in Puppet: 72, LDAP: 75, Prometheus exporters: 126 * number of apache servers monitored: 29, hits per second: 176 * number of nginx servers: 2, hits per second: 2, hit ratio: 0.87 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 12 * pending upgrades: 1, reboots: 0 * average load: 0.67, memory available: 271.44 GiB/871.88 GiB, running processes: 400 * bytes sent: 211.50 MB/s, received: 113.43 MB/s * GitLab tickets: 171 issues including... * open: 125 * backlog: 26 * next: 13 * doing: 7 * (closed: 2075) * number of Trac tickets migrated to GitLab: 32401 * last Trac ticket ID created: 34451 * planned buster upgrades completion date: 2020-08-11

Only 3 nodes left to upgrade to buster: troodi (trac), gayi (svn) and rude (RT).

Upgrade prediction graph still lives at https://help.torproject.org/tsa/howto/upgrades/

Now also available as the main Grafana dashboard. Head to https://grafana.torproject.org/, change the time period to 30 days, and wait a while for results to render.