Savannah Administration - News
posted by Beuc, Fri 20 Nov 2009 11:29:57 PM UTC - 1 reply
We just experimented with the nice pytz/python-tz library, to display the local time in all time zones:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/tz.cgi
What do you think? Do you know about tools that would help people with setting up a meeting time when working from different countries? Probably a good thing to add to Savannah :)
posted by Beuc, Wed 21 Oct 2009 08:23:30 AM UTC - 3 replies
We moved these services to a new hardware, but within around 1 hour, there was a filesystem error, making everything read-only.
We moved back these services to their old hardware, and are now investigating.
Further info:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-users/2009-10/msg00011.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-users/2009-10/msg00013.html
posted by Beuc, Sat 08 Aug 2009 06:48:55 PM UTC - 0 replies
We changed the way users and groups are replicated on the system (where they are used for SSH access): now the system can query the database directly. This means most account operations will be immediately effective (group memberships), while others will only have a 5-minutes delay (ssh keys updates).
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posted by Beuc, Thu 30 Jul 2009 01:06:03 PM UTC - 11 replies
We're currently working on a new web front-end that will be easier to improve and maintain.
When working on data migration we saw that more than 1/2 user accounts are inactive, that is, they registered more than one year ago, they didn't submit ...
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posted by Beuc, Thu 11 Jun 2009 05:37:06 PM UTC - 0 replies
All services are running fine now, except for a few things to fix in webcvs replication.
CVS/SVN/Git/Hg: no need to send new recovery requests, all repos are restored, either from your instructions, either from the May 27 backup.
Arch/Bzr: restored from May 29
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posted by Beuc, Thu 04 Jun 2009 07:08:47 AM UTC - 4 replies
The system is now completely functional.
It's time to decide what to do with your data.
(see first explanations at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-users/2009-05/msg00023.html)
Please discuss and send questions at -unavailable- !
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posted by Beuc, Mon 01 Jun 2009 08:16:50 AM UTC - 0 replies
Here's a summary:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-users/2009-05/msg00023.html
Here's where you can get real-time infos:
http://identi.ca/group/fsfstatus
Services online: web frontend (this page), download, arch, bzr, audio-video.gnu.org
Services down: cvs, svn, git, hg
ETA: work on this will start at 5PM GMT on june 1st (waiting for backup and disk space)
posted by Beuc, Tue 03 Mar 2009 09:22:44 PM UTC - 6 replies
The whole Savannah infrastructure has now switched from Debian Etch (4.0) to Debian Lenny (5.0). Thanks to the VServer technology, we could upgrade each part independently over a few days with only a few minutes of downtime.
posted by Beuc, Tue 13 Jan 2009 09:27:20 AM UTC - 0 replies
Due to a recent change in the GNU mail system, some of the mails could not be delivered between the 7th and the 12th. This is now fixed and handled differently so that the savannah and gnu mails won't lost sync again.
Commit notifications sent to lists.gnu.org in that interval were lost.
Trackers notifications could be recovered and have been reinjected in the mail system - you should be receiving them.
posted by Beuc, Mon 12 Jan 2009 06:41:11 AM UTC - 1 reply
Let us know if one of the download mirrors is slow!
Our tools allow us to check if a mirror is up-to-date, but can't check if it has bandwidth issues. We'll retire slow mirrors and contact their maintainers to see if this can be improved.
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