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Common tasks performed by the Sysadmin team

These are some of the jobs commonly performed by the members of the Sysadmin Team.

Creating special packages needed by project servers and then Submit to Infra repository
SOP Certificate update
Mageia Wiki upgrade
SOP Install server
Pushing new puppet configurations to servers
Installing new RPMs from infra/updates to servers
SOP Freeing disk space on servers when full

Removing and SOP Adding user to group
SOP Rename user
SOP Change user e-mail for users who no longer have access to their old e-mail addresses
SOP Change SSH key
SOP Delete user on request
SOP Reset password
SOP Sysadmin access revocation
SOP Adding groups
Blocking users in Bugzilla due to spammy behaviour (this is currently done by Bugzilla admins, not Sysadmins)
Unlock user account
SOP robot credentials renewal

Pushing updates including security and bug-fix updates
Removing RPMs from Cauldron (that were improperly created or submitted to the wrong media)
SOP Moving RPMs from one media to another on Cauldron that were submitted to the wrong one
Restoring RPMs that were improperly removed from a media (due to bad obsoletes or bad upgrade)
SOP Killing builds on the build system that are taking too long or have hung
SOP Restarting builds for one architecture that failed due to a temporary issue
SOP Increase build timeout for large packages
Running rebuild_perl_iurt (after a perl upgrade)
Cleaning out testing/* packages after a new Mageia release
Updating GPG package signing keys (before expiry)

SOP Version and Release freeze
Releasing a new Mageia version checklist
Sysadmin New Release
Submit or move a package on request of a developer during release freeze ("Freeze push")
Trigger full distribution rebuild of packages
Pushing isos (after a new Mageia release)