code.dlang.org major outage

rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 23 19:17:27 PST 2017


On 24/02/2017 11:55 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> The virtual server that is running code.dlang.org has frozen about an
> hour ago and fails to boot further than to the bootloader. Initial
> attempts to recover from within Grub have failed and it's unclear what
> the root cause is. I will instead set up a replacement server with the
> latest backup from 20 hours ago as soon as it becomes available.
>
> It's really about time to install a permanent backup server to keep the
> registry available in such cases. I will try my best to allocate time to
> make this happen, but I'm severely constrained currently and any helping
> hand would make a big difference. What needs to be implemented is a mode
> for the DUB registry [1] that works without the userman database and
> instead just polls code.dlang.org for changes (may also require some new
> REST API end points to be able to acquire all needed data).
>
> [1]: https://github.com/dlang/dub-registry/

Another thing I would like us to have is a local cache of all packages 
known, so that when outages do happen it can be managed ok-ish for how 
are up to date.


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