Re: [libreoffice-website] infra status for 4.0 release

Hi,

You can count me in to help out if next Wednesday you need an extra pair of
eyes/hands on the system.



On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Florian Effenberger <
floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> as you know, the 4.0 release will most likely happen next week on
> Wednesday. At the same time, we have been experiencing load issues on
> kermit, our main webserver, leading to slow web sites and a slow wiki from
> time to time.
>
> For 4.0, we expect a strong interest and therefore more access to our
> websites than usual, and at the same time, since it's a PR-relevant
> release, where any bad impression on our web site should be avoided.
>
> I am therefore working hard to migrate the first websites to the new
> server soon, and making good progress. However, especially for the web
> server documentation, a lots of things have happened, done by many hands in
> the past, but severely lacking documentation. Lots of improvements and
> tweaks have happened in the early hours of September 28th, 2010, when we
> went live and had to cope with a high server load.
>
> I have collected every piece of information from early on, but it's
> tedious to incorporate everything, and chances are something got missed. To
> avoid missing documentation in the future, we already have set up a new
> rule to only accept properly documented new productive services, but then,
> we still have to cope with the legacy of the past. (And that being said, we
> couldn't have done otherwise anyways, since in 2010, we had to act quickly
> to make a good impression on day #1, and not spend time with documentating
> instead of dong.)
>
> Luckily, Alex Werner and Christian Lohmaier, both infra experts and valued
> members of the admin team, have time on the release date, and join forces
> with me to provide a stand-by team to react on high load situations in
> time. All three of us have worked in this area in the past already, so we
> bring in some experience.
>
> Thank you so much, folks, this is really appreciated!
>
> We are reachable on the usual channels, ideally on #tdf-infra at
> irc.freenode.net, or via email to the hostmaster list.
>
> Maybe having three people as "hot standby" is exaggerated and all runs
> well, but then, I feel more comfortable if nothing happens, rather than it
> does, and we cannot react quickly.
>
> The infra team wants to support the 4.0 release as good as it can.
>
> Florian
>
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