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dennis.kaarsemaker at booking

Aug 9, 2013, 12:20 PM

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Apologies and good news

Porters, CPAN testers,

As you're aware, the servers I'm maintaining for various perl purposes
have been having troubles for quite a while now. After a failed hardware
upgrade, several constraints have kept that setup in a bad shape and
with no expansion possibilities since March.

For this I can only apologize. It's not what was promised and not the
level of service you deserve. I'm sorry it took so long to get this
fixed.

But now the good news: it's fixed. Another hardware upgrade (so you're
now no longer running on hardware from 2010-2011 but current hardware)
has solved the network issues and there are 8 shiny new servers ready to
roll. In fact, dromedary is already living the good life as one such
box.

With the hardware issues solved, everything can now actually move
forward[*]. The plan is roughly as follows:

= Finish the cpantesters machine (if the cpantesters still want it and
haven't been put off by the looooong delay)
= Complete the hardware redundancy for perl5.git.perl.org
- An extra gateway will be built
- Camel will turn into a set of redundant KVM instances
- Some non-perl kvms used by Booking will move
- Merijn's perl collection will magically reappear on dromedary
= Decommission old servers that are still running (camel, kvm hosts)
- llama comes back at this point
= Build new jenkins infrastructure
- Adding 3 extra KVM hosts
- Adding lots of OS'es
- Maybe replace jenkins with something that integrates better with
perl's build/test process.

I'm not going to put a timetable to this. Though I can say that the
cpantesters machine can be used right now. Dave, please contact me on
IRC if you're still interested and we can set up the remaining needed
bits.

[*] Even though work sponsors the hardware and hosting, I do the
maintenance as volunteer work in my own time. Which is not a problem
unless it includes visiting a datacenter. It's rather hard in my
current position to schedule some time to do this.
--
Dennis Kaarsemaker, Systems Architect
Booking.com
Herengracht 597, 1017 CE Amsterdam
Tel external +31 (0) 20 715 3409
Tel internal (7207) 3409


perl.p5p at rjbs

Aug 9, 2013, 5:31 PM

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Re: Apologies and good news [In reply to]

* Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis.kaarsemaker [at] booking> [2013-08-09T15:20:45]
> [...]

Thanks, Dennis! The downtime was frustrating, but I'm sure it was a drag for
you, too. I'm very glad to see the host back (and so snappy!) and I know that
a lot of others are, too. I look forward to standing you a drink or two. ;)

--
rjbs
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sprout at cpan

Aug 9, 2013, 6:05 PM

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Re: Apologies and good news [In reply to]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> But now the good news: it's fixed.

Are you saying my pos experiments that allocated 100GB of ram had
nothing to do with it, and that it was just coincidence after all? :-)


shlomif at shlomifish

Aug 9, 2013, 11:16 PM

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Re: Apologies and good news [In reply to]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 20:31:00 -0400
Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p [at] rjbs> wrote:

> * Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis.kaarsemaker [at] booking> [2013-08-09T15:20:45]
> > [...]
>
> Thanks, Dennis! The downtime was frustrating, but I'm sure it was a drag for
> you, too. I'm very glad to see the host back (and so snappy!) and I know that
> a lot of others are, too. I look forward to standing you a drink or two. ;)
>

Thanks for fixing it.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish



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dennis.kaarsemaker at booking

Aug 10, 2013, 1:06 AM

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Re: Apologies and good news [In reply to]

On za, 2013-08-10 at 01:05 +0000, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > But now the good news: it's fixed.
>
> Are you saying my pos experiments that allocated 100GB of ram had
> nothing to do with it, and that it was just coincidence after all? :-)

No, those were the straw that broke the camel^Wdromedary's back :)

They crashed the already sick dromedary, which then refused to do
anything useful until the body transplant.
--
Dennis Kaarsemaker, Systems Architect
Booking.com
Herengracht 597, 1017 CE Amsterdam
Tel external +31 (0) 20 715 3409
Tel internal (7207) 3409


sprout at cpan

Aug 10, 2013, 4:27 AM

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Re: Apologies and good news [In reply to]

> But now the good news: it's fixed.

Thank you for your work!

Could you check one thing: Why is the repository at /perl.git
not updating?


dennis.kaarsemaker at booking

Aug 11, 2013, 3:09 PM

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Re: Apologies and good news [In reply to]

On za, 2013-08-10 at 11:27 +0000, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> > But now the good news: it's fixed.
>
> Thank you for your work!
>
> Could you check one thing: Why is the repository at /perl.git
> not updating?

It is now.

D.

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