4:17 a.m.
Dear inkscape devels, docs and users,
OSUOUL had a major database error (they accidentally dropped all their
databases from their master database). They're restoring currently from
a backup from two weeks ago, so any changes to the website in the last
two weeks will need to be recreated.
We do have content backups (cms etc) which we do each night, so if
you've written something recently and would like content from the backup
let me know. We don't keep backups of user registrations or uploaded
gallery items so those in the last two weeks are gone.
Like last time I swapped the database to a read only sqlite db from
April. So at least the website shows base pages, there's still some
errors since I really didn't expect database fallback to be a huge part
of what we had to deal with but it's something we may want to improve if
we think osuosl's database is likely to have problems again in the
future.
Thanks for your attention.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
5:34 a.m.
New subject: [Inkscape-devel] Website Down
Hi Everyone,
A couple of thoughts.
I think this message did not go to the User list, because of the "s" in the
address, right before the "@"
(inkscape-users@lists.sourceforge.net<inkscape-users@lists.sourceforge.net>).
At least I didn't receive it there.
This has been plaguing me, ever since I joined the list (not getting
messages addressed to the user list, in my user list folder). I thought the
problem was I just can't seem to get my mail rules set properly. I threw my
hands up and finally gave up a couple of months ago. Now I just noticed the
extra "s" in Martin's message, and looked up the actual address (on SF,
since site is still down) to confirm.
It looks like the real address does not contain that "s" and I wonder if
other people have the address with the extra "s"? Maybe that explains
messages addressed to inkscape-users@...99... not showing in my User List folder?
Maybe other people have done that too? OR....does it somehow work both ways
(and I still don't have my rules correct)?
Shall I announce in forums about the website being down info? Or will going
to User list be enough?
All best,
brynn
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Hah! Yes, I just got a fatal delivery error (from my isp) on that reply.
It definitely does not work either way ;-)
brynn
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To: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...2...>; "inkscape-devel"
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Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Website Down
Hi Everyone,
A couple of thoughts.
I think this message did not go to the User list, because of the "s" in
the
address, right before the "@"
(inkscape-users@lists.sourceforge.net<inkscape-users@lists.sourceforge.net>).
At least I didn't receive it there.
This has been plaguing me, ever since I joined the list (not getting
messages addressed to the user list, in my user list folder). I thought
the
problem was I just can't seem to get my mail rules set properly. I threw
my
hands up and finally gave up a couple of months ago. Now I just noticed
the
extra "s" in Martin's message, and looked up the actual address (on SF,
since site is still down) to confirm.
It looks like the real address does not contain that "s" and I wonder if
other people have the address with the extra "s"? Maybe that explains
messages addressed to inkscape-users@...99... not showing in my User List
folder?
Maybe other people have done that too? OR....does it somehow work both
ways
(and I still don't have my rules correct)?
Shall I announce in forums about the website being down info? Or will
going
to User list be enough?
All best,
brynn
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...2...>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:17 PM
To: "inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>;
<inkscape-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net>;
<inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Website Down
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1:16 p.m.
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Hi Martin,
despite all this mess, I wish you a happy Sysadmin Day :)
Thanks for keeping us informed and dealing with the flood of bug reports!
We do have content backups (cms etc) which we do each night, so if
you've written something recently and would like content from the backup
let me know.
- Yes. There are a few things:
I had just changed all those Windows download links to the non-sf
addresses (which seems a bad move now... but I couldn't foresee this...
- we wouldn't have those Windows dl bug reports and unhappy users now if
I had not changed them.... :-( - can't kick myself as hard as I'd like
to...).
When OSUOSL has brought the db back, it would be good if you could
restore the Windows downloads pages for all languages, *if* it still
seems a good idea to use our own file archive instead of the sf ones
until they are in the resources system.
Also new:
- Animation page (all languages)
- A few smaller changes to the FAQ (at least German, English)
- To-Do list (all languages)
- Contribute page had been updated (at least German, English)
Thanks again,
Maren
We don't keep backups of user registrations or uploaded
gallery items so those in the last two weeks are gone.
Like last time I swapped the database to a read only sqlite db from
April. So at least the website shows base pages, there's still some
errors since I really didn't expect database fallback to be a huge part
of what we had to deal with but it's something we may want to improve if
we think osuosl's database is likely to have problems again in the
future.
Thanks for your attention.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:34:21PM -0600, Brynn wrote:
Hi Everyone,
A couple of thoughts.
I think this message did not go to the User list, because of the "s" in the
address, right before the "@"
(inkscape-users@lists.sourceforge.net<inkscape-users@lists.sourceforge.net>).
At least I didn't receive it there.
This has been plaguing me, ever since I joined the list (not getting
messages addressed to the user list, in my user list folder). I thought the
problem was I just can't seem to get my mail rules set properly. I threw my
hands up and finally gave up a couple of months ago. Now I just noticed the
extra "s" in Martin's message, and looked up the actual address (on SF,
since site is still down) to confirm.
Yeah we deliberately went with the singular form when setting up mailing
lists, to maintain consistency with inkscape-devel@ (rather than
inkscape-devels@)
Bryce
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