We posted in May about needing a volunteer to hack up a simple script. Still do!
This time we have a few pointers ready though so hopefully we can get a volunteer started before he or she gets distracted and disappear on us.
As a slightly larger task then we could use some help from someone who'd be interested in hacking on pgeodns, our geographic load balancing name server written in perl.
Email ask@perl.org if you are interested and I'll get you access to our little Wiki.
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for is here!
perlbug (http://rt.perl.org/rt3/) has been upgraded to the latest and greatest version (RT 3.6).
Here are some changes you might notice:
- a new shiny look
- no more auth.perl.org, we now authenticate directly from bitcard.org
- a public interface that doesn't require you to log in to see tickets
- a much more powerful search interface
- things that were slow before, are not quite so slow anymore
- saved searches
Likely, you'll discover some things are broken, or don't work the way they used to. Here's a few we know about:
- Old bookmarked searches can't be used anymore. (Sorry!)
- Some bitcard accounts (with accented characters in their names) can't login.
- we have a mild performance issue related to CSS caching.
If you run into issues, big or small, please send an email to perlbug-admin at perl.org. Your message will be answered in the order recieved.
-R
(special thanks to Jesse Vincent, Kevin Riggle, Thomas Sibley, and all the rest of the gang at Best Practical, for their help, patience, and for the rt.cpan.org customizations, which made this much easier than it might have been)
svn.perl.org is momentarily down while we nudge some of the underlaying berkeley db databases.
update: it's back.
Josh McAdams interviewed Robert for the Perlcast about perl.org.
There's a little quip about volunteers near the end and speaking of that: we are still looking for someone to help update our fancy DNS server. We had three volunteers a month ago, but they all got busy. The first task we need is a simple tool to convert a text file from one format to another. I hear this perl tool is good for that. :-) I'm insisting on not just fixing the old code we have that does the job because I really want to get a few more people involved with what we do...
Hi everyone,
I need someone to hack up a simple script for me. It's critical to the perl.org and CPAN infrastructure, so it's a worthwhile task even if a bit tedious.
It's a 20-30 minute job at most, but I figure if I can spend 5 explaining it to you then I'l have 15-25 minutes to work on something I can't delegate so easily.
Email me at ask@perl.org if interested in helping.
Update: I got a few volunteers, thanks!
We are having some hardware trouble with the mail/nntp server. We are working on it...
Update: Robert went to the datacenter to kick the box, check the failing disk etc. The server is up again and mail to the lists has started flowing. We need to do a little work on the nntp server before re-enabling it, so nntp.perl.org is still down.
Update 2 (~5.30pm PDT): Robert finished sorting out the NNTP setup so it shouldn't explode again. One of the drawbacks of using mostly old donated hardware is the retarded BIOSes even in "server hardware" from a few years ago. Anyway, it's all better now.
Dearest Spammer,
Sending a message to all cpan.org addresses will not get you customers. Even if you are pushing a perl related product and not penis enhancement drugs. You are now blacklisted by us and hopefully listed in spamcop and other blacklists. Do not expect it to be removed unless you bribe us in a big way. I only wish I had caught your spam before you sent it to over 600 addresses.
Sincerely,
me.
The universe is expanding. A few new faces have been added to http://planet.perl.org/. Hope you enjoy them.
ViewVC (formerly ViewSVN / ViewCVS before) starting giving semi-random server errors after Robert upgraded our Subversion server.
Yesterday he upgraded to the latest ViewVC and since then it hasn't given any trouble, so you can browse the repositories again. It might start breaking again of course; so keep your fingers crossed. :-) (If something there isn't working, please let us know).
There were a few brief service interruptions for some services while I was in the datacenter earlier (moving some cables around and trying to get an old switch to talk to our console server). All should be well now.
To everyone playing along at home, our subversion server has been upgraded, moved, vaccumed, manicured, and gotten a hair cut. It should be faster and more shiny. (Some new features aren't available yet, but will be soon.) Also coming is a new front page, with answers to all those questions you never knew you had. Let svn at perl.org know if you find anything wrong or broken.
At some point later this week, or maybe this weekend, I will be taking the perl.org Subversion server down to move it to different hardware. This most likely won't happen until after the imminent Parrot release.
From an end user perspective, nothing should change. (Although we are upgrading to a newer version of the server and associated programs.) The server will be there, and then it will be down for a fewhours... and then it'll be back, bright, shiny and happy. More details once it is complete.
You may have noticed that you didn't get any perl.org or pm.org mailing list email from 9am until 12 noon (pacific) this morning. We had a slight failure that required manual intervention. (The machine OOMed, and ssh got hosed as a side effect.)
I drove into the data center, and after a bit of fiddling to get the display working, discovered that the machine was very patiently waiting for a keypress because the cover sensor had been disturbed. That "feature" has been disabled.
No mail has been lost. Everything should have been caught up by now.
