DRAFT: CVS Restored, Help Needed in Verification

[Warren Togami]

Hey folks, this is a draft that I will soon be sending to 
fedora-devel-list and fedora-extras-list.

Anything should be corrected?

========= DRAFT BEGINS HERE ==========

Sometime Early Friday, November 17th we suffered some kind of 
catastrophic multi-disk or SCSI backplane failure in 
cvs.fedora.redhat.com.  Thanks to volunteer efforts of Fedora 
Infrastructure and tremendous help from Red Hat IS/IT, we are now 
nearing restoration of cvs.fedora.redhat.com from a backup on a powerful 
new server graciously donated by Dell.

We are restoring from a backup that began November 16th, 2006 at 8:01PM 
MST (Friday, November 17, 2006 at 03:01) and finished 100 minutes later. 
  Because this backup is not an exact snapshot, it is possible that 
checkins that happened after 8:01PM are already in the restored data.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2006-November/date.html
We require your help to verify that all checkins are properly in 
/cvs/extras and everything generally is working as expected.  Please pay 
careful attention to everything that changed in November 16th and 17th 
according to the mailing list archive.

My personal records indicate that no CVS imports happened after this 
backup, so we are fine in that regard.

PACKAGE OWNERS - especially kevin, corsepiu, remi and qspencer are to 
verify and fix their own CVS modules, or explicitly identify someone 
else to do it on their behalf.

EVERYONE ELSE - please keep an eye on CVS.  SCREAM LOUDLY on 
fedora-extras-list if you see anything that is wrong.

Sorry about any inconvenience or disruption that this unexpected problem 
may have caused.  Everyone owes a beer to the Fedora Infrastructure and 
Red Hat IS/IT teams. =)

Thank you for supporting the Fedora Project.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com