openSUSE:Heroes
Introduction
Heroes Team members are volunteers helping the project with system administration related tasks. It consists of people with skills ranging from generic Administrators over to Storage and Network experts. The team also welcomes new volunteers who want to start learning new skills.
In short: the team helps the openSUSE community make their ideas and dreams come true.
Communication
As team we communicate over a lot of channels. Mostly mailing list and IRC.
- join our monthly meeting - usually at the first Thursday of a month at 20:00 CET / 18:00 UTC at https://meet.opensuse.org/heroes.
- https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/opensuse-admin/issues is our ticket system - you can create issues there directly after logging in, or by sending an email to admin@opensuse.org.
- #opensuse-admin is the generic channel where you can reach us. We have a bot there that logs the discussions. You can have a look at former discussions here.
- #opensuse-buildservice is the channel to reach build service administrators.
- We post information about maintenance of the infrastructure to status.opensuse.org.
- For ways to communicate with us individually check our list of members.
Scope
One of the main areas of work for the Heroes Team is the system administration of the infrastructure for openSUSE. Here is a short list of areas that need our/your help:
- Parts of the mirror infrastructure used for deploying images and packages over the world.
- Providing the infrastructure behind projects like the openSUSE Conference, the Documentation.
- Maintaining infrastructure as code in Git using SaltStack.
- Operating various public services -> check the mega-menu by clicking on the icon on the top right!
Out of scope
The openSUSE project also makes use of services hosted by SUSE - for example Bugzilla, OBS and openQA. Those are not operated by the openSUSE Heroes team, but the internal and external teams collaborate where possible.
Duties
Many team members have special areas of interest (others call it "hobbies") and take care of maintaining specific services, others help out generally with day to day tasks.
Talks
Check out videos of past openSUSE Conferences where we give more details about the Team and the openSUSE infrastructure and services:
Members
| Image | Name | IRC (Libera) nick | Blog | Email
(add opensuse.org behind the @) |
Area of expertise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Boltz | cboltz | - | cboltz@ | wiki server admin, admin for English wiki, salting servers and services | |
| Martin Caj | mcaj | - | mcaj@ | openSUSE Infrastructure, SaltStack | |
| Oliver Kurz | okurz | - | okurz@ | openQA (openqa.opensuse.org) | |
| Jacob Michalskie | lcp | https://lcp.world | hellcp@ | Whatever's needed | |
| Bernhard | bmwiedemann | - | bmwiedemann@ | download.o.o and co, Miscellaneous | |
| Georg | acidsys | - | crameleon@ | Infrastructure, SaltStack, Miscellaneous |
Contributions
You want to contribute to our openSUSE infrastructure? Contact us via IRC or at the mailing list.
Check the list of teams to learn more about which teams exist in the project.