The last two days have been quite busy for the Fedora infrastructure team. Most of us are indeed meeting up in Raleigh, in the Red Hat tower down-town and together with Matt Domsch, the original developer of MirrorManager, we have been on MirrorManager2.

It was really great for us that Matt could join. MirrorManager is pretty straight forward in theory but also full of small details which can make it a hard to understand fully. Having Matt with us allowed us to ask him as many questions as we wanted. We were also able to go with him through all the utility scripts and all the crons that make MirrorManager working.

The good surprise was that a significant part of the code was already converted for MirrorManager2, but we still found some crons and scripts that needed to be ported.

So after spending most of the first day on getting to understand and know more about the inner processes of MirrorManager, we were able to start working on porting the missing parts to MirrorManager2.

We also took the opportunity to discuss with Matt, Luke and David how things should look like for atomic and Ralph was able to make the first changes to make this a reality :-)

So yesterday evening we had all the crons/scripts (but one in fact that one isn't needed for MM2) converted to MirrorManager2 \ó/

That was a good point to stop and go quickly to the Red Hat Christmas party before meeting Greg who invited us for a dinner sponsored by Ansible. We had a really nice meal and evening, thanks Greg, thanks Ansible!

Today started the second part of the FAD: Ansible, but more on that later ;-)