From: Jeremy Wells <jwells@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T21:09:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent RubyForge downtime

Hi Tom, I'd just like to say how much I appreciate the rubyforge 
service, and I think that the same goes for everyone who uses ruby on a 
day to day basis.

Jeremy

Tom Copeland wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> Just wanted to post about the recent RubyForge downtime.  Basically it
> was a cron job mistake on my part one evening, which is fixed, and I
> think it was a ViewVC problem the next time, and I'm looking into that.
>
> I know RubyForge has been a bit spotty lately.  I'm working to open up
> the sysadmin job a bit to help with that.  For example, Dennis Oelkers
> is now getting the Nagios monitoring emails and he's got full access to
> rubyforge.org so he can restart services, troubleshoot, etc.  
>
> I appreciate the emails of support and also those of "what can we do to
> help" that I've been getting.  I want RubyForge to be up as much as
> possible, believe me.  And we've been doing a lot behind the scenes to
> keep things running as RubyForge continues to grow - upgrading to Apache
> 2.2, adding new spam filters, tweaking cronjob timing, and so forth.
> Part of the problem probably stem from the fact that I simply haven't
> done admin duties on a machine this busy before, so I'm learning a lot
> of things for the first time.  Growing pains and all that.
>
> At any rate, please continue to report problems and slowness and
> whatever and we'll continue to a) fix things as they come up and b) try
> to be proactively improving things and c) keep learning how to run a big
> multiuser server.  RubyForge has served the Ruby community for the past
> 3.5 years and we plan to continue running it for Time.now + x.years,
> where x is a large Fixnum.
>
> Yours,
>
> tom
>
>