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Team Reports 2024/2025
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AffiliateProgramme
24 The only programme that works really is the parthernsh booking.com. Thank you very much for each booking it's travels with this portal, using the CAcert link. The price is the same, but we get some %.
24 The webshop with T-shirts, caps, mugs and more was run by secureU, a partner association from CAcert in Germany. The benefit was used to pay bills for us. At the moment, this service is not in service.
24 Furthermore, there is a puzzle book for children (Rätselspass für junge Computerfritzen) that can be ordered directly. The whole roalty goes to CAcert.
Amazon
Since April 2018, CAcert has Amazon Affiliates links. Unfortunatley, there are different links for each different language/shop:
On the wiki, we have Google Ads on the top corner. To help CAcert, please allow your adblocker to show this ads. They are small, discrete and do not disturb you while writing or reading on the wiki.
Arbitration
No activity in 2023/2024.
Assurance
24 In the last 12 month about 1500 new user joined the CAcert community. The grow of assurers on the other side came to a stop (after several years with no ATE). The community has 388'000 members.(ru)
ATE
A member organised an on-demand-ATE-week in July 2024 in the Swiss Alps during holliday times. The success was restrained.
Audit Team
ABC BGC
24 One/two more back ground checks were done. (ru)
Critical System Administrator Team
24 * implemented new software deployment process using git and repositories from code.cacert.org that has been started at Datenspuren 2023 in a live session with Dirk (jd)
On-site work
Outages of critical hard/software
Day to day operation
New processes/software
Current status
Future outlook
Access Team
Education
The old CATS certificate did state that the holder is a CAcert Assurer. This leads to the problem that beside the fact that the test has been passed, the number of Assurance Points of the applicant have to be verified. The current procedure to do this was to send a request to support@c.o. and ask them to check the account. Given our current active workforce this leads to considerable delays, and adding more work for support (and me) this is not really helpful.
So the new certificate only states that the test has been passed. This has the following advantages:
* An Education Officer can verify all information without help from support. * The certificate elaborates more on the tested areas of knowledge, instead on the fact that the owner is CAcert Assurer. This may be more useful for applicants for usage in job applications or similar situations. * In the long run, it would be possible to issue such a certificate automatically on the CATS server. (Ted 07/24)
EventsTeam
24 CAcert was present in three countries: Elsene/Brussels, Karlsruhe, Köln/Bonn, Mildenberg and Männedorf/Zurich at well known events like FrOScon, FOSDEM, Gulaschprogrammiernacht, Chaos Communicationn Camp but also for the first time at CAcert Stubete.
If you look at Events, you will see, that the new year 2024/2025 has started promising as well with four events in three countries. (ru)
Infrastructure
* added new external infrastructure monitoring system based on latest Icinga2 with IcingaDB, started rework of infrastructure monitoring to use the new system, added additional monitoring checks for several systems * improved setup of the OpenID Connect systems (authserver and idp) * setup OpenID Connect authentication for code.cacert.org and bugs.cacert.org * regular maintenance and updates of all infrastructure systems
We have two systems (wiki and translations) that still rely on Python 2 and are therefore kept at Debian 10. The Wiki software (moinmoin) is used by other projects (i.e. Debian itself) too and we will see whether there will be a Python 3 variant that will allow an upgrade of the wiki system. Translations uses the Pootle software which has no active upstream. The infrastructure team suggests to switch to Weblate. We suggest to use the Hosted Weblate SaaS offering, as we have no active administrator for the translations system. (jd)
New Root & Escrow Project (NRE)
Organisation Assurance Team
Policy Group
During 2022/2023 (from 07-2022 until 06-2023 and even until 09-2023) was no discussion in the policy group. (ru)
PublicRelations
Software Development Team
24 They repair our systems, expand them and adapt them to new requirements. Put new functions through their paces. They deal with errors and find innovative and pragmatic solutions. They also plan, develop and programme new pillars for CAcert. We are talking about a dedicated small group of volunteers known as “Software Team”. When you talk to them, you can immediately sense the enthusiasm with which they work in their free time to create new things together and make progress.
24 The fact that various small projects have been completed in recent months, that age-related weaknesses have been ironed out and errors rectified, and that a major new project has been brought to the finishing line, is not only thanks to the dedication of these people, but also to the fact that they have succeeded in winning over others. The software team has actually grown this year, with new members joining the team. In fact, the software team has actually grown this year, with new members joining the team.
24 New recruits initially take on small tasks, working hand in hand with volunteers who know our systems inside out like nobody else. Once they have passed the security check, formerly known as ABC, replaced some time ago by BGC, they also help with work on system-relevant software. Welcome to the Software Team of CAcert! (from the blog
* primary repository has been moved to https://code.cacert.org/cacert/cacert-webdb * several smaller improvements have been merged and deployed using the new
- deployment process (jd)
Support Team OLD
Triage
- cca 13-18 new messages daily
- one hack tries to overflow Support/OTRS with thousands of spam messages
- several series of spam messages, each row about 10-20 ones
Delete accounts
- still unable to delete accounts which issued any certificates
- now more than 50 such accounts are locked
- average delete requests: cca 1 per 3 days
Advices
- average cca 3 a week
- some advices are unsuccessful as some users give up e.g. trying their password recovery
- recently many users want to know the deadline for renewing CAcert operation, info needed
Translation / Localisation
There was some discussion to switch from pootle to weblate (as a service) in 2023, as the upstream is dead. As there is no localisation activity at the moment, this is not pushed.
- compleatlty translated: spanish, dutch, czech, italian, french, german
- translated 33-82%: brasilian portugese, swedish, hungarian, finish, japanese and catalan.
Some activity at CATS translation with two pull requests at the moment.
- compleatly translated: french, german, english, czech??
- other languages welcome (ru)
Finance Team
There is no official finance team at the moment. To resolve the troubles with Paypal, the treaurer got some help by Frédéric Dumas and the secretary. (Ru)