Re: [OpenStack-Infra] ask.openstack.org down for some days
Typically we give a cry for help and people pay attention and start moderating again for a month or so. Then it falls off of people’s radar again. The site needs massive improvements: better spam filtering, smarter suggestion engine to discourage duplicate posts, better tagging and search, etc... most questions go unanswered or unmoderated for months. I’d love it if someone took up that task, but I fear it won’t happen. Ifwecant find a champion, I believe we should think about winding down the service. In its current state it’s doing more harm than good. Thanks, Jimmy > On Nov 9, 2019, at 7:06 PM, Bernd Bausch wrote: > > Yes, I guess it's still useful. Traffic is not very high, perhaps 5 > questions a day (if there are logs, it should be easy to confirm this), both > from absolute beginners and advanced users. > > No idea what time and skill is required to maintain an Askbot site, but I am > certainly curious. > > Bernd. > >> On 2019/11/10 2:07 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >> For some reason Apache has been failing to restart during daily log >> rotation all week. I've manually started it again. Most of the >> sysadmins have been busy with other things in Shanghai (myself >> included), but I had a few free minutes on a layover just now. >> >> It's worth keeping in mind that the ask.openstack.org site has >> basically been unmaintained for years, ever since the AskBot >> maintainer OSF was contracting to run it disappeared. If folks are >> still finding the service useful, then we probably need to have a >> conversation about finding a maintainer for it. > > ___ > OpenStack-Infra mailing list > OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra ___ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
Re: [OpenStack-Infra] ask.openstack.org down for some days
Yes, I guess it's still useful. Traffic is not very high, perhaps 5 questions a day (if there are logs, it should be easy to confirm this), both from absolute beginners and advanced users. No idea what time and skill is required to maintain an Askbot site, but I am certainly curious. Bernd. On 2019/11/10 2:07 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: For some reason Apache has been failing to restart during daily log rotation all week. I've manually started it again. Most of the sysadmins have been busy with other things in Shanghai (myself included), but I had a few free minutes on a layover just now. It's worth keeping in mind that the ask.openstack.org site has basically been unmaintained for years, ever since the AskBot maintainer OSF was contracting to run it disappeared. If folks are still finding the service useful, then we probably need to have a conversation about finding a maintainer for it. ___ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
Re: [OpenStack-Infra] ask.openstack.org down for some days
On 2019-11-09 10:35:07 +0900 (+0900), Bernd Bausch wrote: > ask.openstack.org has been down for most of the week: > >/Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at >ask.openstack.org./ > > I wouldn't mind helping if I knew how. For some reason Apache has been failing to restart during daily log rotation all week. I've manually started it again. Most of the sysadmins have been busy with other things in Shanghai (myself included), but I had a few free minutes on a layover just now. It's worth keeping in mind that the ask.openstack.org site has basically been unmaintained for years, ever since the AskBot maintainer OSF was contracting to run it disappeared. If folks are still finding the service useful, then we probably need to have a conversation about finding a maintainer for it. -- Jeremy Stanley signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
