[RFC]: Downtime of serveral KDE sites

[Jason Bainbridge]

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I think this issue is starting to become a critical one as it has been about 2 
weeks since downtime on these sites begun, which isn't really acceptable at 
all.

I propose that firstly the source for these sites be moved into CVS (if they 
aren't already, but I don't think so), but who has the source anyway?

Then the server side stuff needs to be done on the master.kde.org server 
(KTown?) with the usual 3 hourly cron job to update the sites from CVS, plus 
the database for apps.kde.com would also need to be setup. Then finally the 
DNS for the sites would have to be updated accordingly.

I'm willing to maintain the web stuff and the PHP once the sites are in CVS if 
required, but unfortunately I wouldn't be of much help with the initial 
setup.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I think it is important that some 
action is taken on this pretty much straight away, it could still be likely 
that Andreas will soon get the sites back online but we have no way of 
knowing this at the moment.

I'm not saying what I have recommended is necessarily the best thing, it could 
be far from it, but I'm merely putting suggestions out there so some sort of 
action can begin.

Regards,
- -- 
Jason Bainbridge
KDE - Conquer Your Desktop
The KDE Usability Project - http://usability.kde.org

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 23:39, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> Moin!
>
> As you most probably know, many pages are down.
>
> The affected sites are:
>
> apps.kde.com
> www.kde.com
> www.kdeleague.org
>
> Those are hosted by Andreas. I have no idea why they are down. Could anyone
> please clarify?
>
> edu.kde.org
> and other random *.kde.org sites
>
> Those were kindly hosted by Bero at RedHat. Since he has quit, that hosting
> opportunity went away. Who is responsible for those pages? My last
> information is that they were supposed to move to ktown, does this happen?
>
> I see a major problem in the downtime especially of apps.kde.com since it
> informs users with vital 3rd party applications. A summary of all new
> applications from appsy was regualry posted by linuxtoday, which can't
> happen atm anymore either. In case appsy doesn't come up soon, we should
> think of an alternative. I have no idea how important the resuming of
> kdeleague.org is, but given that the first partners ask, I assume they are
> very interested that it comes up again (That's what they pay their bucks
> for ;).
>
> Cheers,
> 	Daniel


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