I sent an email to supp...@osuosl.org last night and got a response in 30 minutes.
OSUOSL admin says: > Looks like varnish died on the machine and I just kicked it. The site(s) > should be back online now. > > The sites have been in an unstable state for quite a while mostly > because neither we (OSL) nor Sun/Oracle had time to fix the performance > issues both of the sites entails. Couple that with the fact that the > machines they power those sites are very underpower considering the load > they take. It's gotten so bad that we've turned off notifications > because they just go off all the time. > > What really needs to happen is to have the sites completely > re-architected from the ground up with scaling in mind. At least one of > the sites is a stock Drupal 5.0 with a very hacked core. I know some > Sun/Oracle engineers had been working on fixing that into a Drupal 6 > module but I'm not sure where that left off. > > Anyways, If you would like some more help with how these sites can be > fixed moving forward, please let me know. But we are strectched thin for > resources. It looks like these two sites are going to need attention whether they are physically moved or the servers transferred to the ASF. Rob says: > Can we make it a priority to migrate these two site to Apache? We > need volunteers to do this. Nothing happens by magic here. We need > volunteers to define the technical requirements and work with Apache > Infrastructure to make this happen. Hopefully we'd make some platform > and technology choices that would be more stable than the current > site. I'd recommend moving and then asking Oracle to redirect > requests for those two subdomains to Apache. We did get a zone file yesterday, but it was missing these two domains. I think that the track is to transfer the domain and zone dns to the ASF first and then we will be able to do what we want. Regards, Dave > > -Rob > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Reizinger Zoltán <zreizin...@hdsnet.hu> > wrote: >> 2011.07.11. 15:41 keltezéssel, TJ Frazier írta: >>> >>> On 7/11/2011 07:28, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>>> >>>> Reizinger Zoltán wrote: >>>>> >>>>> The two sites works sporadically, needs four five web page refresh to >>>>> load: >>>>> http://templates.services.openoffice.org/ >>>>> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ >>>>> To help OOo present users, needs to stabilize sites work. >>>>> Somebody knows what the cause of this problem. >>>> >>>> Yes, I posted some more details in this message a few weeks ago: >>>> >>>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201106.mbox/browser >>>> and I don't have further updates available. >>>> >>>> Note that those sites are not part of the Oracle infrastructure. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Andrea. >>>> >>> Hi, all, >>> >>> Andrea Pescetti's helpful message is easier to find here: >>> >>> >>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201106.mbox/%3c1308391724.2986.34.camel@localhost.localdomain%3e >>> >>> since it is titled, "Re: Bugzilla or JIRA? ..." etc. >>> >>> Oregon State University Open Source Lab hosts the extensions site, and >>> some Apache-related things as well. Just for fun, I tried looking up >>> OSUOSL's service ticket #18367, but their website was impenetrable to my >>> relatively feeble search attempts. >>> >>> As a systems programmer (retired), I used to read a lot of tickets, and it >>> was my job to solve them. I find this protracted trouble curious, to say the >>> least. :-/ >> >> It seems to me it is an abandoned site, nobody care for it, it hurt all OOo >> effort if we not find a solution to restart, the users ask every day on >> forum which way they could find specific extensions, and we can not help >> them. It is sad thing. >> Zoltan >>
