The 2019 year was another busy year for the Sysadmin team, with the GitLab migration starting to get underway.

This included initial discussions with the GitLab Team, evaluating features we would likely need, and deploying a test instance to allow for KDE developers to begin evaluating GitLab. As part of this, the feedback was collected from the KDE Community and ways to address issues were developed and discussed where needed with the GitLab team. Following a final discussion with the overall KDE Community, it was decided to migrate to GitLab, a process which started towards the end of the 2019 year.

Changes were also made under the hood to various parts of KDE Infrastructure, with DNSSEC being rolled out for the vast majority of domains we operate, including KDE.org. This helps ensure that end user systems are only contacting our systems when they ask to visit a KDE.org website by preventing DNS results from being altered without our knowledge.

Changes were also made to our Continuous Integration & Delivery systems, increasing their capacity to better handle peak loads and minimize the amount of time builds spend waiting at times of high load. Improvements were also made to our Android and Flatpak build support, enabling us to publish builds to an F-Droid compatible repository more quickly and scale up builds of both across multiple builders in the future more easily.

In addition to all of this, we also undertook a number of maintenance updates during the year to various services and upgraded others to keep everything in working order.

Created/Reinstated 90 Developer accounts

Created 7 kdemail.net aliases
Disabled 1 kdemail.net aliases

Created 12 kde.org aliases
Disabled 1 kde.org aliases
Modified 8 kde.org aliases

Created 5 kde.org mailing-lists: kirigami cutehmi akademy-proposals cantor-bugs kde-kr
Disabled 5 kde.org mailing-lists: dot-editors kdepim-maintainers social-media rocs-devel krecipes-devel

Created/Reinstated 90 Developer accounts

Created 7 kdemail.net aliases
Disabled 1 kdemail.net aliases

Created 12 kde.org aliases
Disabled 1 kde.org aliases
Modified 8 kde.org aliases

Created 5 kde.org mailing-lists: kirigami cutehmi akademy-proposals cantor-bugs kde-kr
Disabled 5 kde.org mailing-lists: dot-editors kdepim-maintainers social-media rocs-devel krecipes-devel

Created 73 subversion accounts
Disabled 4 subversion accounts

Created 5 kdemail.net aliases

Created 24 kde.org aliases
Disabled 9 kde.org aliases
Modified 12 kde.org aliases

Created 6 kde.org mailing-lists: neon-commits listowners bugsquad kde-i18n-cs rolisteam kde-l10n-hi
Disabled 65 kde.org mailing-lists: kgraphviewer-devel wikitolearn-core wikitolearn-promo koffice www-pl koffice-devel kde-kamoso kde-ev-hiring kde-ev-marketing social-desktop khtml-devel kde-i18n-nds kde-hardware-devel bangarang kde-networkmanager freenx-knx kde-apps-org campkde-participants kde-pim-meeting kde-events kontact wikitolearn-tech api-comments amarok-promo kairo-devel kdeev-books open-collaboration-services kde-ux-meeting kde-metrics parley-devel kde-enterprise-web kde-oldies w2l-editors kde-connect-team funq-devel kde-events-au kde-usability-devel akademy-br w2l-editors-it noatun-bugs kde-bretzn kexi-pl raptor kde-notes-announce kde-teaching kde-usability kde-events-fr kde-hci antispam-taskforce grancanaria amarok-committee kde-graphics-devel atelier kde-services-devel kde-i18n-vi kde-press-announce-pl kde-debian-private kde-cl kde-testing kde-distro-packagers kde-sonnet kde-openserver amarok-private gluon kde-kiosk

The 2020 year was a year of substantial change for the Sysadmin team, with a number of significant systems changing this year.

The most significant of these was the migration to Gitlab, with code hosting and review being successfully transitioned from our previous Gitolite and Phabricator setup. This involved not only importing the repositories, but also developing custom tooling where needed. This custom tooling supports functionality including our custom commit keywords, syncing of user account information from KDE Identity and the automated updating of project details on Gitlab.

Another significant achievement was the deployment of BigBlueButton, an online video conferencing system. While initially trialled to allow for the first remote Akademy, it has gone on to be used extensively for remote sprints as well as other community meetings to date. In addition to this, we also replaced our previous mirror management system (Mirrorbrain) with a new setup based on Mirrorbits. This change brought support for HTTPS mirrors, full support for IPv6 and improved the accuracy of matching people with the most appropriate mirror in addition to reducing the load on the server. At the same time we also deployed a Tirex instance for rendering maps which are used in Marble and KItinerary. This has allowed to us to offer both higher resolution and more up to date maps, improving the experience for those users.

During the year, we also rolled out a new service, ActivityFilter. This replaces the Commitfilter service that was discontinued several years ago and also expands it's coverage to include Bugzilla as well as Gitlab merge requests and tasks, allowing members of the community to easily track areas they're specifically interested in. The introduction of MyKDE, a new service to centrally manage user information, was also a significant milestone and also marked the beginning of the process of replacing KDE Identity.

Going forward, we expect 2021 to be a year of consolidation, with Continuous Integration and Tasks both migrating to Gitlab and more services being transitioned to use MyKDE.