svn.perl.org shutdown in one month

We just sent the below email to active module authors who use svn.perl.org.  If we missed you, please accept our apologies and read on....

Dear very short list of module authors who still use svn.perl.org, 

  Due to declining usage and increased maintenance costs, we've decided to shut down the SVN hosting on svn.perl.org. 

  We are currently planning to shut the service down in a month, on April 27th, 2013.  For various reasons, we'd love to do so sooner, so it would be appreciated if you could migrate quickly. 

  Google Project Hosting and GitHub are popular hosting options, but you can use anything you want.   

  After you have migrated, please commit a note to your repository updating the README or adding a MOVED file that says where you've moved to.  You do not need to delete the old files unless you want to. 

  You can find a filtered svndump file at http://svn.perl.org/modules-dumps/ that contains only your project for easier migration using svnsync or svn2git.

Thanks!

Network Glitch

The main perl.org cluster is currently experiencing a network connectivity issue (since around 9:45pm TZ=America/Los_Angeles).  This primarily affects www.perl.org, www.perl.com, www.pm.org, several other hosted websites as well as email services (mailing lists, forwarding.)  We are in contact with the our providers and are working to identify and resolve the issue.

Update: 
  Everything is back to normal.

Seeking "list-owner" help

We have an RT queue for when people email somelist-owner at perl.org for help subscribing or unsubscribing. It's pretty rare, but it adds up and the current volunteers have been falling off their routine keeping the ticket queue in check.

Therefore we seek new volunteers! There are a few hours of work clearing up the backlog (maybe less, most are probably taken care of and can just be bulk closed/replied to) and then it's a few minutes of work every few days.

Email ask at perl.org if you are interested in helping. Basic email skills (send, reply, headers) and optionally familiarity with RT is all that's required.

pause.perl.org moved

A couple of weeks ago the PAUSE server was moved to be hosted with the other perl.org servers and infrastructure bits we look after here. Considering the few emails we got about it, it appears that everything is running smoothly!

Andreas is still running PAUSE, we (Robert & Ask) are just providing hosting and an occasional helping hand.

Two changes that might be meaningful to you:

• The new server doesn't have FTP enabled, so you have to upload via HTTP(S). HTTP really is a better protocol for this.
• The CPAN master mirror is now on the same network as the PAUSE server, so there's really no reason to mirror directly from PAUSE. The master mirror server is much better equipped for rsync, too.

Happy Birthday, CPAN!

Today CPAN turns 17, happy birthday! There are many reasons to use Perl for software development, but few as uniquely compelling as the amazing repository and community that makes CPAN.

We've Moved!

As you may have noticed, log.perl.org has moved to Blogger!

We want to thank TypePad for hosting us for the past seven years.

You may notice that you've got a lot of unread posts in your RSS reader, apologies for that.  It's a hard to fix side-effect of changing services.

Beyond a slightly different look, you shouldn't notice much different.  This is still the place to come for technical updates about the perl.org family of sites.

Network outage

Some switch between us and the upstream provider went boom about half an hour ago.  The appropriate technicans are working on it.

Update: All is well again.

Hardware failure of the day

A server hosting a few virtual servers died some hours ago, giving downtime to rt.perl.org, cpan.org mail forwarding and a few other services. Thankfully we got many of the other things running on that server setup with proper redundancy in the last couple of months!

We're going to replace it this evening with another server provided by YellowBot. The new server is similar enough that the plan is to just move over the disks and hope it comes up. :-)

Brief Downtime This Afternoon

You may have noticed that some perl.org services (including www.perl.org) were unavailable for a short time this afternoon.  For the past few days we've had issues in the middle of the night where one of our primary servers would grind to a halt.  We believe we've isolated that to a bad disk, and have replaced the disk.  We also took this opportunity to upgrade some of our networking hardware and reboot a variety of systems.  Everything should be back to normal now.

more rt.cpan.org updates

The Best Practical blog has some updates related to rt.cpan.org.  Click through to read about some useful new features!

Network trouble

One of the primary network links to the main perl.org servers is having some trouble causing lots of packet loss and other such unpleasantries.  Our providers are looking into it and we expect all should be back to normal shortly.  (Famous last words?)

SSL 4th

Happy 4th of July to all our readers in the US.  Belated Happy Canada Day to our friends to the north.

Two weeks ago, Best Practical announced that rt.cpan.org had been updated to be SSL (https) only for increased security and to fix some bugs.

Today, we've made similar changes for rt.perl.org.

For both sites, you will be redirected to the SSL version if you attempt to go to the non-SSL version.

Faster perldoc.perl.org

One of the more popular sites we host over here is perldoc.perl.org with about half a million visits a month.

It's cleverly built to be an entirely static site.  As part of upgrading, modernizing and moving things around the hosting for the perldoc site got a bit of an upgrade today so it should load even faster than it did before.

In related news then yesterday the CPAN Ratings site got an extra upgrade too to enable caching, CDN serving of the static resources and so on and so forth.