[Open-bio-l] [OBF Members] OBF server outage announcement / call for SysAdmin volunteers

[Andy Jenkinson]

On 6 Nov 2012, at 13:34, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Andy Jenkinson
> <andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> What's the latest on this?
>> 
> 
> Hi Andy, and everyone else :)
> 
> Latest news is:
> http://news.open-bio.org/news/2012/11/server-transition-to-aws/

Thanks Peter. I notice biojava has now been up for a couple of days now too. I don't have a lot of time and I know you say it's difficult to allocate tasks, but is there anything I can do to help get the biodas wiki back up?

> Quote from Jason:
>>> Our aging server which has run for 5+ years the OBF sites has
>>> finally reached end of its lifespan. We are currently migrating
>>> sites to AWS volumes and sites for a temporary period while
>>> we decide about how to continue to support these services in
>>> the future.  There will be some downtime while the all-volunteer
>>> OBF admin team makes time to fix this.
>>> 
>>> Nearly all projects use public source code repositories such as
>>> github or sourceforge so no problems with access to the code
>>> should be limiting. Mailing lists are still using the old server but
>>> will be moved to the AWS site in the next few days and we are
>>> working to have little downtime for the lists.  Mediawiki sites are
>>> moving in stages and so far Bioperl, Biopython, and the OBF
>>> wikis have been migrated.  This news site has also been
>>> migrated to AWS and this is the 1st post from it (will it work!?)
> 
> (and the post did work)
> 
>> What is involved in getting things fixed?
>> 
> 
> Migrating the rest of the sites from the ageing hardware to Amazon
> virtual machines. The discussions are on the root-l mailing list (used
> for OBF server administration) and a new group on basecamp.com
> (partly as a fallback as the mailing lists will need to be moved at
> some point and so the root-l list itself won't be continuously
> available). See also: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
> Several people have volunteered (thank you!), but allocating tasks
> during the urgent migrations is not straightforward. Things like
> keeping an eye on the WordPress install (making sure security
> fixes are applied etc) should be easier to share round.
> 
> Peter