On 2012-08-09, at 04:22, Peter Beverloo <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2012-08-09, at 03:14, Peter Beverloo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Mark Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2012-08-09, at 02:41, Osztrogonac Csaba <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > bugs.webkit.org and trac.webkit.org is unavailable again. :(
>> > Could you check it, please?
>> 
>> This is caused by a problem on a host that I don't have sufficient 
>> privileges on to be able to address the issue myself. I've pinged people 
>> that should be able to resolve the issue, but given that it's currently 3am 
>> in California it may be a few hours before they're awake and fixing it.
>> 
>> Thank you. Is there any way an on-call or monitoring system could be set up? 
>> While it fortunately occurs much less frequently nowadays than it did 
>> earlier in the year, it --please excuse my directness-- is unacceptable for 
>> a project the size of WebKit to have critical infrastructure unavailable 
>> like this for several hours. Even though it's 3am in California, there are 
>> many contributors in Asia and Europe who are severely impacted by this.
> 
> We have people online virtually 24x7 that are capable of investigating and 
> addressing issues with the webkit.org infrastructure. I'm one such person. 
> This particular case is an unfortunate combination of events: a configuration 
> error on a subset of the new hardware that webkit.org was recently migrated 
> to has unintentionally limited the number of people that can access the host 
> that is currently experiencing problems, and the person that such issues are 
> escalated to is currently on vacation. It's an unfortunate combination, but 
> also one that is unlikely to repeat.
> 
> One thing we should look in to is improving the process for reporting issues 
> with webkit.org infrastructure. webkit-dev isn't an ideal way to report 
> issues that our monitoring system hasn't noticed as there's no separation 
> between the regular discussion and more urgent issues, so the emails can be 
> overlooked.
> 
> I see. Thank you for the insight, and I hope the access issues get sorted 
> out. I presume this is something Bill or Lucas will be able to pick up? 
> Hopefully the remaining downtime won't be more than three or four hours, then.

Bill is the one that's on vacation, and Lucas is in the same boat that I am as 
far as access to the host in question.  I managed to track down someone else 
with sufficient access though, and they've fixed the issue that was impacting 
bugs.webkit.org and trac.webkit.org.

- Mark

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