Wednesday, September 26, 2007

svn.perl.org password/account management

For a long time we had a confusing thing where to get a svn.perl.org subversion (and groups.pm.org webdav) account you had to go to auth.perl.org and set it up there.



We've improved it a bit now so resetting your password (or just setting up the account initially) you just go to svn.perl.org. Whee!



Let me know (ask@perl.org) if you have any trouble with the new site.



Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Week of failures!

Geez! This week it seems like everything is falling apart over here. Servers that have been running for hundreds of days are acting up. Configuration files last changed 3 years ago needs tweaking. Programs not changed for 4 years have bugs popping up.



We had an outage of cpan.org mail (mail bounced) early this morning and later in the afternoon many of the perl.org sites were unavailable for a few hours. One of our database servers got "stuck" and it had a cascading effect on some of the web services.



Apologies! IM me at xmpp:ask@plys.net if you see anything else amiss and we'll get it fixed in a hurry.



Monday, September 10, 2007

CPAN Search adds Gravatar icons

At the request of Michael G Schwern gravatar icons have been added to author pages on CPAN search.



Any author can get a gravatar icon on their page by registering at gravatar.com using their CPAN email alias.