darcs hub outage update, 2018-06-25

Another update. 

I have moved hub.darcs.net <http://hub.darcs.net/> to a new VPS of its own. Note the IP address has changed to 173.255.219.113.

The web UI is up again and should be working normally. I have added status info to the front page. 

The ssh server is not yet operational, I am still working out a few problems with it. For now, you can get or pull repos using their http url (eg darcs get http://hub.darcs.net/simon/ssh).

Thanks for your patience, and please watch the #darcs IRC channel, darcs-users list or http://hub.darcs.net <http://hub.darcs.net/> front page for more news.

Best
-Simon




> On Jun 17, 2018, at 3:17 PM, Simon Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all. Here's an update on the current outage at http://hub.darcs.net <http://hub.darcs.net/> .
> - All data is safe and service will be restored asap. 
> 
> - This is the fourth day of the incident. Though this is a best-effort free service provided in my "spare" time, I do care about reliability. This is the longest outage we've had. I'm very sorry about it.
> - Unfortunately due to press of life events just now I'm not able to drop everything and work on it; I have windows of time. This is contributing to the delay.
> 
> - This is an upgrade that went wrong. In short, I upgraded the VPS on which darcs hub runs, without realising that couchdb was not available for the newer OS. (See below). 
> 
> - Rolling back the VPS upgrade was not practical, as I run other things there as well.
> 
> - I guessed wrongly that the new couchdb packages would appear within hours. It now looks like that could take a week, or more. (https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1314 <https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1314>)
> - In parallel I started building a new VPS, but last night it got compromised. So I must start over with this.
> 
> - Hopefully, you all are working productively from your local repo copies. But if you are urgently blocked, there may be something helpful I could do; let me know.
> 
> I'll update you when things change. Thanks for your patience. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> -Simon
> sm on #darcs IRC channel
> 
> 
>> On Jun 14, 2018, at 2:57 PM, Simon Michael <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I apologise for the darcs hub outage in progress at the moment. I began a systems upgrade to ubuntu bionic, and too late discovered this is a problem for couchdb:
>> 
>> - ubuntu's couchdb packages are gone
>> - couchdb's ubuntu packages are not yet ready
>> - building couchdb from source is too costly
>> - https://launchpad.net/~couchdb/+archive/ubuntu/master <https://launchpad.net/~couchdb/+archive/ubuntu/master> can't be added to my system for some reason
>> 
>> If you know a quick solution, please contact me here or on #darcs. Otherwise, I'm afraid we will be waiting until https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1314 <https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1314> is complete. I think and hope this will be quite soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. 
>> 
>> Best,
>> -Simon
>> 
>

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