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Bug tracker temporarily offline

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:28:00 GMT

A fault has developed in our bug tracker that causes it to consume all CPU on our web server when we attempt to start it. The problem seems related to the Subversion repository and causes sufficient load of the back-end database that the rest of the web site becomes unable to respond – this was the cause of our brief site down time earlier this week.

I’m investigating the problem but other commitments mean it may be a while before it can be resolved. In the mean time, if you have bugs to report or discuss, please use the bugs forum.

Thanks for your patience!

Posted in Web site, Community | Tags bug, downtime, tracker | 2 comments

Planned web site down time

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:28:00 GMT

The RISC OS Open web site will be undergoing a few changes in the next day or two. These include an evolution of the existing site design which renders more quickly in NetSurf and replacement of the problematic Wiki engine with one which will hopefully prove more reliable.

It is necessary to take the site offline completely during the upgrade process. Data must be migrated from the old to new Wiki and no changes can be permitted during that time. The web server architecture is being overhauled too. As a result we are planning for an hour or two of downtime in the next couple of days.

Posted in Web site, Community | Tags downtime, maintenance, upgrade, upgrades | 8 comments

Scheduled downtime

Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:36:00 GMT

The server hosting the ROOL web site and source repository services will be offline for maintenance work later today. It should only take an hour or two.

Posted in Web site, Miscellaneous | Tags downtime, server | 1 comment