Outage: hosted servers 2011-04-12 04:00 UTC
by Stephen John Smoogen
There will be an outage starting at 2011-04-12 04:00 UTC, which will last
approximately 6 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d ' 2011-04-12 04:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
Serverbeach (our service provider for our hosted and other servers)
are upgrading switches in their San Antonio (SAT) Datacenter. The
outage for our systems are supposed to be 15 minutes but can be
anywhere within that 6 hours.
Affected Services:
Email system
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Unaffected Services:
Most services should stay up, however various items depending on
fedorahosted will be affected (which may then affect other services,
etc etc.)
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to
track the status of this outage.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
"The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard
battle." -- Ian MacLaren
13 years
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Vote for your favorite Fedora 16 release name
by Jared K. Smith
The time has come to vote for the release name for Fedora 16. The
Fedora community has submitted quite a few suggestions for the Fedora
16 release name, and that list has been narrowed down to the final
nine candidates. Now you can vote on these names and assist in the
final selection for the successor of Fedora 15 "Lovelock".
This vote begins 5 April 2011 and runs until 11 April 2011 at
23:59:59 UTC. Other important facts:
* We are using the Range Voting method
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting)
* Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting
* If this is the first time you've used the voting system, you might
want to read the Fedora Elections Guide, currently located at
http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/documents/elections-guide/
* To vote, you must have a valid Fedora Contributors License Agreement
(CLA) and be a member of at least one non-CLA group
To vote, visit: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/relnamef16
Thank you to everyone who helped by contributing names for
consideration, and reviewing the names for the final ballot.
--
Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
13 years
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