[Dune] Problems with server in Heidelberg

[Christian Engwer]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:44:05AM +0200, Steffen Müthing wrote:
> 
> > Am 28.08.2015 um 18:30 schrieb Christian Engwer <christian.engwer at uni-muenster.de>:
> > 
> > Hi Steffen, alternatively, we could move the mailing lists to the new
> > server already, they are all standard mailman stuff, so there
> > shouldn't be a big problem.
> 
> But that still wouldn’t solve the problem of only having a single communication channel, would
> it? If the network here in Heidelberg falls over for a day, the mailing lists are gone. Having some
> other means to at least tell people what’s wrong and how long it will take to fix it might be
> useful.

that is true, but how many people on this list follow twitter?

I honestly have no clue, which cannel would work out. Some people use
irc, again only a few. My feeling is that a split infrastructure
should be sufficient... but I would not insist on the one or the other
solution.

Ciao
Christian

> > - git is more work, as we should discuss a switch to gitlab
> > - website is more work, due to a lot of reasons
> 
> Yes, we should discuss the infrastructure at the developer meeting…
> 
> Steffen
> 
> > 
> > Christian
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:00:49PM +0200, Steffen Müthing wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> 
> >> the server in Heidelberg that hosts
> >> 
> >> - the web site
> >> - the bug tracker
> >> - the mailing lists
> >> - the repositories
> >> 
> >> spontaneously restarted this morning and subsequently failed to boot (in fact, it got stuck
> >> during the BIOS verification, so it is a hardware problem). I finally managed to get it up again,
> >> but I’m not convinced of its stability - as I don’t know what triggered the error, it might happen
> >> again at any time.
> >> 
> >> If the issue appears again, we might have to think about speeding up the move to the new
> >> server, but that might take several days.
> >> 
> >> Unfortunately, the mailing lists also depend on the server, so it’s impossible to inform people
> >> about problems as long as it is down. Maybe we should think about an independent place to
> >> post updates in that case? A Twitter account maybe?
> >> 
> >> Steffen
> >> 
> > 
> > 
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