service news

2024-08-31 - DoS on git:// protocol took anonymous-git down for a few hours; https: & ssh: continued working.
2024-06-03 - Level3 internet backbone DNS PTR screwup in Europe made some outgoing sourceware+subnet mail undeliverable in Europe.
2023-12-04 - Fiber cut & ISP routing problems resulting in partial network unreachability.
2023-11-20 - Fiber cut & ISP routing problems resulting in partial network unreachability.
2023-10-15 - ARC milter configured.
2023-06-05 - DNS PTR misconfiguration delayed outbound email.
2022-09-23 - Welcome to the pacme project.
2021-06-01 - Experimenting with VERP for mailman, which changes the outgoing Sender: header, for better delivery tracking.
2020-06-30 - 24 hour bugzilla outage due to epel8.playground perl package regression
2020-06-29 - 12 hour system load crazy due to mariadb hang & client spin-loop
2020-03-20 - 90 minute data center network outage
2020-03 - Migration across systems & datacenters
2020-02-28 - Numerous moin wiki spam/DoS attackers blacklisted
2018-12-13 - One outage due to physical move within data centre, one network outage due to router misconfiguration.
2018-11-06 - Double drive replacement in main server, moving to 1TB SAS (cheaper than the original 500GB ones).
2018-07-10 - Another drive replaced in main server (sdd).
2018-07-09 - More /viewvc/ web spiders vanquished after DoS.
2018-05-30 - That drive is replaced.
2018-05-18 - One drive died in main server (sdc). Accelerating plans to move to new RDU servers.
2018-03 - New server hardware are being prepared in a RDU data center. Transition should be seamless but will take some time.
2018-01-15 - One drive died in main server. Replacement drive also dead. Cannibalized one drive from backup server, so main server is back up. New replacement drives incoming to backup server.
2017-12-04..08 - System physical move https://sourceware.org/ml/overseers/2017-q4/msg00029.html
2017-08..2017-09 - NVMe SSD installation, filesystem corruption & recovery https://sourceware.org/ml/overseers/2017-q3/msg00060.html

projects

2021-03 Welcome to the debugedit project.
2020-07 The gnu-gabi project now has a git repo https://sourceware.org/git/?p=gnu-gabi.git
2018-08 Welcome (back) to the BZIP2 project. https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
2018-03 Welcome to the Springfield project (mailing list).
2017-11 Welcome to the Annobin project.
2017-07 Welcome to the Valgrind project. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=valgrind.git
2017-05 Welcome (back) to the LVM2 project. https://sourceware.org/lvm2/
2017-02 Welcome to the Publican project. https://sourceware.org/publican/en-US/index.html
2016-12 Welcome to the elfutils project. https://sourceware.org/elfutils/
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