Is rubyforge down?

ruby-talk
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Hm:

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On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:53:05 +0200, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

ping rubyforge.org
PING rubyforge.org (66.92.167.78): 56 data bytes

I waited 10 minutes, but no response … when can we
expect rubyforge to be up again ?

OK…10 minutes later, RubyForge is back again.
I wonder what the problem were ?

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[tom@rubyforge gforge]$ uptime
7:49am up 16 days, 12:22, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[tom@rubyforge gforge]$

Maybe our network connection dropped off the line for a couple minutes…
RubyForge seems to have been fine…

Yours,

tom

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OK…10 minutes later, RubyForge is back again.
I wonder what the problem were ?

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[tom@rubyforge gforge]$ uptime
7:49am up 16 days, 12:22, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[tom@rubyforge gforge]$

Looks good.

Maybe our network connection dropped off the line for a couple minutes…

How could this happen ?

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On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 21:41:10 +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:53:05 +0200, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

–
Simon Strandgaard

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Could be fallout from our ISP’s recent network maintenance downtime…
hard to say.

Yours,

Tom

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On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:50, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

Maybe our network connection dropped off the line for a couple minutes…

How could this happen ?

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Maybe our network connection dropped off the line for a couple minutes…

How could this happen ?

Could be fallout from our ISP’s recent network maintenance downtime…
hard to say.

Right now I cannot get in touch with Rubyforge… ISP problems again :slight_smile:

BTW: what were your ISP fixing during the scheduled downtime ?

date
Sat 2 Aug 2003 12:04:00 CEST
ping rubyforge.org
PING rubyforge.org (66.92.167.78): 56 data bytes
^C
— rubyforge.org ping statistics —
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

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On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 23:28:16 +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:50, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

–
Simon Strandgaard

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Right now I cannot get in touch with Rubyforge… ISP problems
again :slight_smile:

Back up again now… sigh… very odd.

BTW: what were your ISP fixing during the scheduled downtime ?

I’m not sure… their email just said “upgrading and maintenance”…

Yours,

Tom

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I’ll bet it was the Cisco flaw. ISPs everywhere,
including Time-Warner, were rushing to fix it
quietly before anyone could exploit it. Or so I
hear.

Hal

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----- Original Message -----
From: “Tom Copeland” tom@infoether.com
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: is rubyforge down ?

Right now I cannot get in touch with Rubyforge… ISP problems
again :slight_smile:

Back up again now… sigh… very odd.

BTW: what were your ISP fixing during the scheduled downtime ?

I’m not sure… their email just said “upgrading and maintenance”…

–
Hal Fulton
hal9000@hypermetrics.com

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Tom Copeland wrote:

Right now I cannot get in touch with Rubyforge… ISP problems
again :slight_smile:

Back up again now… sigh… very odd.

BTW: what were your ISP fixing during the scheduled downtime ?

I’m not sure… their email just said “upgrading and maintenance”…

The site appears to be up and stable, but I registered for an account
several hours ago but have yet to get my E-mail confirmation.

Also, two questions:
How hard is it to change a project name? I have something I think I
might put on RubyForge, but I’m not really sure what to call it. If I
change my mind later, is it trouble some to rename it?

Is RubyForge hooked to RAA, such that items on RubyForge get listed
automagically in the RAA?

Thanks,

James

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BTW: what were your ISP fixing during the scheduled downtime ?

I’m not sure… their email just said “upgrading and maintenance”…

I’ll bet it was the Cisco flaw. ISPs everywhere,
including Time-Warner, were rushing to fix it
quietly before anyone could exploit it. Or so I
hear.

Rich and I set up a ping-o-matic to keep an eye on RubyForge; if the
connection goes away again at least we’ll know when and for how long it
was down.

Incidentally, I changed the display name of the RubyForge “ruby mirror”
project to “Ruby Release Mirror”. It’s climbing rapidly up the download
stats chart :slight_smile:

http://rubyforge.org/top/toplist.php?type=downloads

Yours,

Tom

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The site appears to be up and stable, but I registered for an account
several hours ago but have yet to get my E-mail confirmation.

I registered 2.5 hours ago and the receipt arrived within 5 mins.

Is RubyForge hooked to RAA, such that items on RubyForge get listed
automagically in the RAA?

Aren’t you being tooo demanding :slight_smile: ?

I’d guess you would list your download page (and, possibly homepage)
on RAA as RubyForge.

daz

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“james_b” james_b@neurogami.com wrote:

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That might not be a question for Tom because if you mailed
him, he could probably rename it in a jiffy.

There’s the impact it has on the collective Ruby consciousness
to consider. Once your project is public, we know it as ‘X’
and henceforward recommend it as ‘X’ even though you’re now
running it as ‘Y’ and keep screaming at us for getting your
name wrong.

Another guess: You could announce that project ‘X’ is mature
and superseded by project ‘Y’. Tom doesn’t have to be
bothered apart from the possibility of ‘clutter’.

daz

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“james_b” james_b@neurogami.com wrote:

How hard is it to change a project name?
[…]
If I change my mind later, is it trouble some to rename it?

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The site appears to be up and stable, but I registered for an account
several hours ago but have yet to get my E-mail confirmation.

The email seems to have been sent:

[root@rubyforge gforge]# cat /var/log/maillog* | grep britt
Aug 3 01:56:33 dsl092-167-078 sendmail[30372]: h735uXPN030372:
to=james@jamesbritt.com, ctladdr=noreply@rubyforge.org (516/518),
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30149,
relay=localhost.localdomain. [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
(h735uXDY030374 Message accepted for delivery)
Aug 3 01:56:34 dsl092-167-078 sendmail[30376]: STARTTLS=client,
relay=jamesbritt.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL,
cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA, bits=168/168
Aug 3 01:56:36 dsl092-167-078 sendmail[30376]: h735uXDY030374:
to=james@jamesbritt.com, ctladdr=noreply@rubyforge.org (516/518),
delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=30455,
relay=jamesbritt.com. [66.246.52.127], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK
id=19jBfr-0005YD-VV)
[root@rubyforge gforge]#

but please let me know if you don’t get it and I can either delete your
account and you can reregister or I can just manually activate your
account.

Also, two questions:
How hard is it to change a project name? I have something I think I
might put on RubyForge, but I’m not really sure what to call
it. If I
change my mind later, is it trouble some to rename it?

It’s not too much trouble… just have to hunt down all the usages -
the CVS repo, the Webalizer the docroot, httpd.conf, the unix group, the
database… I think that’s all. It’s a bit of a pain, but not too bad.

Is RubyForge hooked to RAA, such that items on RubyForge get listed
automagically in the RAA?

Not yet - Hiroshi Nakamura and I began discussing some ways to make this
happen. Hiroshi, what do you think?

Yours,

Tom

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BTW: what were your ISP fixing during the scheduled downtime ?

I’m not sure… their email just said “upgrading and maintenance”…

I’ll bet it was the Cisco flaw. ISPs everywhere,
including Time-Warner, were rushing to fix it
quietly before anyone could exploit it. Or so I
hear.

What must not happen, happens.

Rich and I set up a ping-o-matic to keep an eye on RubyForge; if the
connection goes away again at least we’ll know when and for how long it
was down.

Really nice… stability and robustness.

AFAIK, there exists some version-control-systems which is capable
of doing offline-commits. Everytime I cannot get in touch with the
central CVS-server, I wish myself a cvs-replacement which has this
feature :slight_smile:

Do you consider other version control systems than CVS for RubyForge ?

Incidentally, I changed the display name of the RubyForge “ruby mirror”
project to “Ruby Release Mirror”. It’s climbing rapidly up the download
stats chart :slight_smile:

http://rubyforge.org/top/toplist.php?type=downloads

Yes alot of changes is going on in the ‘Top Project Downloads’.

(67) RMagick
(52) AEditor
(38) jabber4r Jabber client library for Ruby
(20) Vapor
(17) Vim/Ruby Configuration Files

My AEditor is doing pretty good for a ‘alpha’ stage project… wow :slight_smile:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/aeditor/

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On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 01:27:10 +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:

–
Simon Strandgaard

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daz wrote:

How hard is it to change a project name?
[…]
If I change my mind later, is it trouble some to rename it?

That might not be a question for Tom because if you mailed
him, he could probably rename it in a jiffy.

Do you know this to be true, or are you just guessing?
I’d like to actually know before I add a project.

There’s the impact it has on the collective Ruby consciousness
to consider. Once your project is public, we know it as ‘X’
and henceforward recommend it as ‘X’ even though you’re now
running it as ‘Y’ and keep screaming at us for getting your
name wrong.

The main reason I would rename something is because users, or potetial
users, express displeasure with the name. So the plan is to get it
named something that matches how people think of it.

James

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“james_b” james_b@neurogami.com wrote:

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Tom Copeland wrote:

The email seems to have been sent:

but please let me know if you don’t get it and I can either delete your
account and you can reregister or I can just manually activate your
account.

I decided to try registering again; that e-mail reached me in about 2
minutes.

Also, two questions:
How hard is it to change a project name? I have something I think I
might put on RubyForge, but I’m not really sure what to call
it. If I
change my mind later, is it trouble some to rename it?

It’s not too much trouble… just have to hunt down all the usages -
the CVS repo, the Webalizer the docroot, httpd.conf, the unix group, the
database… I think that’s all. It’s a bit of a pain, but not too bad.

Ug. I Think I’ll spend some time picking a name, and hang the code of
my own site for a bit to see who’s intersted and if they name makes sense.

Is RubyForge hooked to RAA, such that items on RubyForge get listed
automagically in the RAA?

Not yet - Hiroshi Nakamura and I began discussing some ways to make this
happen. Hiroshi, what do you think?

It would be sweet, and keep people from having to maintain project info
in more than one place. Perhaps RAA can slurp an RSS feed.

Thanks for all the effort,

James

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Yours,

Tom

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AFAIK, there exists some version-control-systems which is capable
of doing offline-commits. Everytime I cannot get in touch with the
central CVS-server, I wish myself a cvs-replacement which has this
feature :slight_smile:

Do you consider other version control systems than CVS for RubyForge ?

Hm. I’m most familiar with CVS, and there seem to be lots of tools
around for it. Subversion seems to be an up-and-comer, but the recent
discussion of DB corruption make me a bit leery of it.

Incidentally, folks may be interested in this status page:

http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/5/11/rubyforge_site_status.html

I’ll try to keep this updated as various events occur on RubyForge.

Yours,

Tom

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[Simon:]
AFAIK, there exists some version-control-systems which is capable
of doing offline-commits. Everytime I cannot get in touch with the
central CVS-server, I wish myself a cvs-replacement which has this
feature :slight_smile:

Do you consider other version control systems than CVS for RubyForge ?

BitKeeper is probably the only VCS that handles offline commits (I’d
love to be told I’m wrong), and it may (or may not) be unsuitable for
use in RubyForge as it is not open-source.

Gavin