From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office.

Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UTC). So it might become a long weekend especially for developers – but we plan to avoid restrictions for endusers during this downtime.

So far, the following services are affected by this downtime:

• Build Service
• Mailing lists
• …and more

Please have a look at the “downtime” wiki page to see the full list of affected hosts.

Not affected:

• news.opensuse.org
• <lang>.opensuse.org (all opensuse wikis)
• forums.opensuse.org
• irc.freenode.net/opensuse* channels
• bugzilla.novell.com
• download.opensuse.org (replacement host)
• software.opensuse.org (search will not work as the buildservice is down)

With kind regards,
Lars (on behalf of the openSUSE-Admins)

From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office.

Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UTC). So it might become a long weekend especially for developers – but we plan to avoid restrictions for endusers during this downtime.

So far, the following services are affected by this downtime:

• Build Service
• Mailing lists
• …and more

Please have a look at the “downtime” wiki page to see the full list of affected hosts.

Not affected:

• news.opensuse.org
• <lang>.opensuse.org (all opensuse wikis)
• forums.opensuse.org
• irc.freenode.net/opensuse* channels
• bugzilla.novell.com
• download.opensuse.org (replacement host in place)
• static.opensuse.org (replacement host in place)
• software.opensuse.org (search will not work as the buildservice is down)

We plan no replacement for the other services as the downtime is not too large.

We will try to reduce/disable building on build.opensuse.org on Thursday, so all mirrors should have “up-to date” packages over the weekend.

With kind regards,
Lars (on behalf of the openSUSE-Admins)

From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office.

Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UTC). So it might become a long weekend especially for developers – but we plan to avoid restrictions for endusers during this downtime.

So far, the following services are affected by this downtime:

• Build Service
• Mailing lists
• …and more

Please have a look at the “downtime” wiki page to see the full list of affected hosts.

Not affected:

• <lang>.opensuse.org (all opensuse wikis)
• forums.opensuse.org
• irc.freenode.net/opensuse* channels
• bugzilla.novell.com

The discussion to host at least download.opensuse.org and static.opensuse.org somewhere else is work in progress. We plan no replacement for the other services as the downtime is not too large.

We will try to reduce/disable building on build.opensuse.org on Thursday, so all mirrors should have “up-to date” packages over the weekend.

With kind regards,
Lars (on behalf of the openSUSE-Admins)

I’m proud to announce that the download area of http://www.opensuse-education.org/ is sponsored now by 6 (!) mirrors. A big “thank you” to each of them:

• InterNetX GmbH (special thanks for the biggest bandwith ever!)
• Unixheads
• Peter Poeml (special thanks for the help with mirrorbrain)
• openSUSE (sponsoring two mirrors)
• Skynet
• Belnet

Like openSUSE, the openSUSE-Education team use a great software named MirrorBrain from Peter Poeml, which makes it possible to redirect download requests transparently to the nearest mirror. As result, our endusers normally didn’t even noticed that they get their files from a mirror instead of the original system.

Result: even if our current hoster still limits the bandwith of our main server, our users get their software faster than ever.

From openFATE’s launch in January ‘09 the addition of a new feature was limited to openSUSE members. Due and thanks to several requests out of the openSUSE community we changed this and are happy to announce today that openFATE now allows feature requests for non-members as well. This will lower the bar again to participate directly in the project and in the development of openSUSE, openSUSE Build Service and openFATE itself.
We’re looking forward to receive more qualified feature requests to make our openSUSE distribution and the project itself fit your needs better from day to day. To use openFATE please check first here

Have a lot of fun!

We do a number of software and hardware updates this week for our openSUSE servers. That means that some services will not be available for some time.

Tuesday 10:00 UTC
Maintenance of our content delivery infrastructure for about 1 hour. That means the following service will not be available:

• download.opensuse.org
• stage.opensuse.org

Wednesday 12:00 UTC
Maintenance of our Build Service infrastructure for about 1 hour. That means the following service will not be available:

• software.opensuse.org
• build.opensuse.org
• api.opensuse.org
• users.opensuse.org

Thursday
We will update the Factory development projects according to the new discussed list. So Build Service packages should expect a high load on the system, it will most likely not really usable at this day.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but lets hope that a larger and stronger infrastructure will offer the services to you afterwards

Stephan Binner reported on -announce that there’s a problem with the DNS for Planet SUSE at the moment. If you’re trying to reach Planet SUSE, you can still reach it at planet.opensu.se.

Good news, everybody! The download.opensuse.org and stage.opensuse.org systems are now fully restored, and all services should now be available.

DNS has been changed to point to the new system from widehat, which is standing by in the event that the new system were to go down. We also have a second system that will be configured to back up download.opensuse.org and stage.opensuse.org in the near future.

We apologize for any inconvenience. The openSUSE infrastructure is one of our top priorities. As mentioned previously, we will continue improving the openSUSE Project infrastructure and working to ensure that we have as little downtime as possible.

Thanks much to Peter Poeml for his work over the last two days to resolve this situation, as well as Christian Schneemann, Nat Friedman and his team, and everyone else who jumped to get this fixed as quickly as possible.

We appreciate the patience and words of encouragement to the openSUSE team while this was being fixed.

We’ve restored user services to download.opensuse.org and are working to restore all services and add redundancy to the system.

The repository inconsistencies last night were caused by a missing configuration on the system, which caused it to redirect requests on metadata to mirrors, which are often outdated. That is now fixed.

A few services have not been restored yet. Specifically, Publishing new Factory snapshots is disabled right now, and build server publishing is stopped. These services will be restored when the new system is fully integrated – which we expect to happen by tomorrow. We are copying content to the new system now, which will take about 12 hours.

This will also add mirror stage serving to the services offered by download.opensuse.org. When the restore is complete, we will also add redundancy, so the problem of having a backup will be solved.

In addition, we’re re-examining the openSUSE.org infrastructure to ensure that we reduce the risk of overall and unscheduled downtime. This will be an ongoing process, and we will notify the community of progress here.

Thanks for your patience while these issues are taken care of. Thanks to Peter Poeml, Christian Schneemann, Nat Friedman and his team, and everyone else who jumped to get this fixed as quickly as possible.

Peter Poeml has reported that the storage array is down for download.opensuse.org. We don’t have a definite time for it to be up again, but it could be more than one day. We’re working on the problem and will be getting a backup in place shortly.

In the meantime, the openSUSE mirror network is still available. See mirrors.opensuse.org to find a mirror near you.