Operations/Minutes/2023-04-06

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OpenStreetMap Foundation, Operations Meeting - Draft minutes

These minutes do not go through a formal acceptance process.
This is not strictly an Operations Working Group (OWG) meeting.

Thursday 6 April 2023, 19:00 London time
Location: Video room at https://osmvideo.cloud68.co

Participants

Background/notes by OPS, action items and links by Dorothea Kazazi.

Absent

New action items from this meeting

  • Tom Hughes to check if we have set-up alerting for overpower usage. [Topic: Power Usage @ Amsterdam]
  • Paul Norman to ask for quote for going up to 3.5 KW in AMS. [Topic: Power Usage @ Amsterdam]
  • Grant Slater to create a ticket for not monitoring AMS RAID controller batteries. [Topic: HE.net]
  • Tom Hughes to ask Martijn to clarify if he meant that the link would be to an external website. [Topic: Adding Rapid to editor menu]
  • OPS to draft a policy regarding adding editors to the editor menu. [Topic: Adding Rapid to editor menu]

Power Usage @ Amsterdam

Action items:

  • Tom to check if we have set-up alerting for overpower usage.
  • Paul to ask for quote for going up to 3.5 KW in AMS.

HE.net

Action item: Grant to create a ticket for not monitoring AMS RAID controller batteries.

Ironbelly retirement?

Ironbelly - Site gateway server at Equinix Amsterdam.

  • Disks are old / dying. Disks need replacement if we re-purpose.
  • Supybot needs moving
  • Gateway needs moving
  • Will be used short term for imagery processing / storage. Long term scrap.

Prometheus long term storage?

https://prometheus.openstreetmap.org

Drop long term storage and use built in storage?

  • Backup if the machine crashes.
  • Now: increase prometheus retention time from 30 days -> x
  • Retire Promscale

Adding Rapid to editor menu

OWG should likely have a policy
- Top usage editor (users? changeset? Changeset is open to abuse)
- Require a way to call?
- Embedded vs External Site?

Action items:

  • Tom to ask Martijn to clarify if he meant that the link would be to an external website.
  • OPS to draft a policy regarding adding editors to the editor menu.

Technical desire raised by Mateusz

- Different lists per mobile / desktop / android / iphone?

Action items

  • 2023-03-23 Grant Slater to create a Github issue for discussion regarding dockerising Mediawiki. [Topic: Dockerising Mediawiki (Yuri)] https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/873s
  • 2023-03-09 Guillaume Rischard to try to provide options for 1G connectivity for AM6 by the next OPS meeting. [Topic: Network Upgrades]
  • 2023-02-23 [Bureaucracy] Grant to migrate OWG action items to GitHub tickets. (https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/823)
  • 2023-01-12 Grant Slater to experiment with Netbox. [Topic: Asset management]
  • 2022-12-15 Grant Slater to produce a pull request and finish the OSQA one. [Topic: Containerisation of small services https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/807] # 2022-12-29 In progress.
  • 2022-11-03 [Network upgrades AM6] Guillaume Rischard to talk with Clement / Open Source ISP about reliability and get insurances that the virtualised Layer2 links to Paris will be reliable. # 2022-11-17 Pending # 2022-12-29 Changed from "OPS" to "Guillaume".
  • 2022-09-22 [Network upgrades @ AM6] Grant Slater and Guillaume Rischard to talk to Clement about the options for network upgrades. # 2022-10-06 Guillaume talked with Clement.
  • 2022-09-22 [Network upgrades @ AM6] Guillaume Rischard to provide a schema at next meeting.
  • 2022-09-22 [Network upgrades @ AM6] Grant Slater and Guillaume Rischard to work out all the costs involved for option 1.
  • 2022-09-08 Grant Slater to document Chef testing. [Topic: How to get more people involved] # 2022-09-22 Chef kitchen tests running locally. # 2022-11-03 pending. #2022-11-17 Pending # 2022-12-29 In progress. # 2023-01-12 In progress - one of the rests fails randomly.
  • 2022-07-14 Guillaume Rischard to ask Brian Sperlongano about OpenMapTiles and YAML, to do a test run. [Topic: Vector tile status]. # 2022-09-22: Suspended for a while. Brian is back at school and has no time to work on this. Guillaume will try to move vector tiles forward with someone else. # 2022-12-29 Still suspended.
  • 2020-12-02 [AWS] Grant Slater to develop some thoughts on what is next for us using AWS. [Topic: AWS] # 2021-05-19 & 2021-06-02 & 2021-06-16 postponed for a few weeks. # 2022-12-29 In progress.
  • 2020-07-29 [AWS] Grant Slater to enable background sync to AWS S3. [Topic: Ironbelly] #2020-08-12&26 & 2021-06-02 Manually run, automated scripting to be added. # 2021-05-19 Grant to run the script again. # 2022-04-09 Still manually run. # 2022-09-22 wants to make sure there are absolutely minimum permissions. # 2022-12-29 In progress. # 2023-01-12 Still manually run. Grant to look at the policies together with Paul.
  • 2020-07-01 Paul Norman to create a ticket about solutions to reduce incoming communications. [Topic:Revision of acceptable use policy to reduce incoming comms] # 2021-05-19 decision to leave the action item open. # 2021-06-02 discussion about priority for account deletion. # 2022-04-09 Grant can show Paul how to do that with autoresponder which Tom built. Might be better to work on an online form (action item below).
  • 2020-07-01 Grant Slater to work out some of the questions for an online form as a solution to reduce incoming comms. [Topic: Revision of acceptable use policy to reduce incoming comms] 2020-08-12 need to think about the reply # 2021-05-19 decision to leave the action item open. # 2022-04-09 Grant is thinking about examples. Suggestion to add what is considered large for tile usage.
  • 2020-04-10 Grant Slater to work out a table of different data bits, work out how they are backed up and what can be potentially improved. [Topic: High Availability / redundancy of OpenStreetMap.org (and primary services)] # 2021-05-19 decision to leave the action item open. # 2021-06-02 pending.

Next meeting

Thursday 20 April 2023, 19:00 London time, unless rescheduled.

Operations meetings are currently being held every two Thursdays, at 19:00 London time.
Online calendar showing the OPS meetings.

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