Operations/Minutes/2022-01-27

OpenStreetMap Foundation, Operations Meeting* - Draft minutes
Thursday 27 January 2022 at 19:00 London time - Countdown
Location: Video room at https://osmvideo.cloud68.co

* Please note that this is not strictly an Operations Working Group (OWG) meeting.

Participants

Absent

Minutes by Dorothea Kazazi.

Action items

2022-01-27 [New] Paul Norman to open a ticket to move the data statistics page. [Topic: Dublin]
2022-01-27 Tom Hughes to ask Christopher Meng, who offered a server in the US, what he thinks in terms of connectivity. [Topic: Server offer in US]
2022-01-13 Paul Norman to look at page thanking people hosting cache-nodes [Low priority]. [From reportage]
2021-10-20 OWG to get back to Fastly about their blogpost draft.
2021-10-20 [High Priority] ~~OWG~~ Grant to work out potential monthly cost for moving traces to S3. [Topic: Traces to S3]
2021-10-20 Grant Slater to fix certificates, fix backups to shared OSM backups. [Topic:Discourse live this week?]
2021-10-20 Grant Slater to move Dublin, HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 [Topic: Discourse live this week?]
2021-10-20 Grant Slater to chat to AWS again [Topic: Planet on S3]
2021-10-20 Grant Slater to followup with Guillaume Rischard [Topic: Planet on S3]
2021-09-08 Grant Slater and Guillaume Rischard to capture the emails of suspended users and transfer them to an archive account before deleting them and start paying [Topic: OSMF email provider] #2021-09-22 Pending. Guillaume Rischard may have cleared some.
2021-09-08 Paul Norman to do the PR to add Fastly to the "supported-by" list. [Topic: Fastly] #2021-09-22 Added in one place. Probably still needs to be added to hardware.openstreetmap.org.
2021-05-05 Grant Slater to email Toby from WikiMedia Foundation and suggest chating to MapTiler. [Topic: WIkimedia] #2021-06-02, 2021-06-16, 2021-06-30,2021-07-14, 2021-08-11, 2021-08-25 Status: Pending. Low priority.
2021-02-24 Tom Hughes to report back on TimescaleDB again at next meeting. [Topic: Reportage] [was: 2021-01-13 Tom Hughes to evaluate TimescaleDB] [Topic: Longer term metric retention] #2021-04-21 SSD Disk Failing in US #2021-05-19 decision to leave on the agenda. #2021-06-02, 2021-06-16, 2021-06-30 nothing new #2021-07-14 deployed yesterday #2021-08-11 Failing over again after a week. Hypothesis: issue with Postgres and number of tables.Some of the autovacuum jobs stuck in loops reading the statistics. #2021-08-25 No update.
2021-01-13 OWG to send message to the servers we want to keep. [Reportage. Existing CDN servers] #2021-03-24 Three servers stopped talking to us (shenron, naga and one more) #2021-05-19, 2021-06-02
2021-01-13 Grant Slater to wipe thorn servers and the 3 other machines [AMS] [Topic: Longer term metric retention] #2021-05-19 pending #2021-06-02 Ramoth data drives wiped - decision: Grant Slater to do final wipe of Ramoth and leave it until next site visit. Discussion about 16G DDR3. #2021-07-14 Paul Norman to update ticket with the decision.
2020-12-02 Grant Slater to develop some thoughts on what is next for us using AWS. [Topic: AWS] #2021-05-19
2020-11-04 OWG to work out tile log archival and deletion policy at later stage. [Topic: Commercial CDN] #2021-03-24
2020-10-21 Paul Norman to write to Discourse ticket and email the board [Topic: Discourse] #2021-06-16 pending.
2020-09-09 Grant Slater [Topic: Amazon Web Services (AWS)] Speak to AWS person about going ahead with open data program with official OSM S3 bucket. #2021-05-19
2020-09-09 Grant Slater [Topic: Amazon Web Services (AWS)] Talk to OpenAerial Map/HOT. #2021-05-19
2020-08-12 Michal Migurski to try to rekindle excitement about people helping with imagery (on dev channel/imagery channel or Slack). #2020-08-26 No progress.
2020-07-29 Grant Slater to enable background sync to AWS S3. [Topic: Ironbelly] #2020-08-12
2020-07-29 Grant Slater to check with Wiki Admins on hCaptcha (reCaptcha replacement). [Topic: Wiki reCaptcha issue] https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/454 #2020-08-12 hCaptcha people reached out and happy to help. Blocker on Mediawiki 1.35 being released in August. #2021-05-19 blocker removed. #2021-06-02 pending.
2020-07-01 Paul Norman to create a ticket about solutions to reduce incoming comms. [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.
2020-07-01 Grant Slater to work out some of the questions for an online form as a solution to reduce incoming communications. [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.
2020-06-04 Paul Norman to update the Github ticket Adding API key support for tile.osm.org
2020-06-04 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.

Google Account transition

Guillaume did some work on that today.

Discourse

Waiting on Grant.

Any other business

Dublin

Database is now in sync.
Paul will get usage information from the #572 ticket.

Action item: Paul to open a ticket to move the data statistics page.

Server offer in US

19 January email by Christopher Meng.
Paul might modify requirements on the CDN page.
We don't see traffic going directly to render servers.

Action item: Tom to ask Christopher Meng, who offered a server in the US, what he thinks in terms of connectivity.

Suggestion: If this fells through we should look at getting another US server. West coast?

Next meeting

~~Thursday 10 February 2022, 19:00 London time, unless rescheduled.~~ Cancelled

Operations meetings are currently being held every two Thursdays, at 19:00 London time.
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