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Roll call: who's there and emergencies

all team present, no emergencies

Normal per-user check-in

we went through our normal check-in

  • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&assignee_username=anarcat
  • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&assignee_username=groente
  • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&assignee_username=lavamind
  • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&assignee_username=lelutin
  • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&assignee_username=zen

General dashboards

We noticed a lot of untriaged issues in the web boards, and @lelutin is a little overloaded, so we picked issues off his board.

  • https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards/117
  • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/web/-/boards
  • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/boards

Roadmap review

anarcat mentioned that we need to review Q3 and plan Q4 in the next monthly meeting.

keep in mind that what we don't do from the 2025 roadmap in q4 will get postponed to 2026, and that has an influence on the tails merge roadmap!

we would really like to finish the puppet merge this year, at least.

we hope to start brainstorming a proper 2026 roadmap in october.

Other discussions

state of the onion

do we do it? what do we want to present?

we haven't presented for the last two years, didn't seem to cause an issue for the grand public, no one asked us for it...

maybe we could do a talk to TPI/TPO directly instead of at the SOTO?

But then again, not talking contributes to an invisibilisation of our work... It's important for the world to know that developers need help to do their work and sysadmins are important: this organization wouldn't immediately collapse if we would go away, but it would certainly collapse soon. It's also important for funders to understand (and therefore fund) our work!

Ideas of things to talk about:

  • roadmap review? we've done a lot of work this year, lots of things we could talk about
  • asncounter?
  • interactions with upstreams (debian, puppet, gitlab, etc)
  • people like anecdotes: wrong gitlab shrink? mailman3 memory issues and fix

anarcat will try to answer the form and talk with pavel for some help on next steps.

Next meeting

as usual, first monday of october.

Metrics of the month

  • host count: 99
  • number of Apache servers monitored: 33, hits per second: 696
  • number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 20
  • pending upgrades: 0, reboots: 99
  • average load: 1.62, memory available: 4.6 TB/7.2 TB, running processes: 240
  • disk free/total: 88.7 TB/204.3 TB
  • bytes sent: 514.4 MB/s, received: 334.0 MB/s
  • GitLab tickets: 244 tickets including...
    • open: 0
    • ~Roadmap::Icebox: 130
    • ~Roadmap::Future: 44
    • ~Needs Information: 3
    • ~Roadmap::Backlog: 38
    • ~Roadmap::Next: 12
    • ~Roadmap::Doing: 15
    • ~Needs Review: 3
    • (closed: 4198)
    • ~Technical Debt: 12 open, 36 closed

Upgrade prediction graph lives at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/upgrades/trixie/

We've past our estimated finish date for the trixie upgrades (2025-08-06), which means we've slowed down quite a bit in our upgrade batches. But we're close to completion! We're still hoping to finish in 2025, but it's possible this drags into 2026.