From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204FB138247 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2049DE0DA1; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B25BE0D86 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (unknown [114.91.186.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: patrick) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2A27C33F9C3 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:04:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52DA278E.2010703@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:04:46 +0800 From: Patrick Lauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlays.gentoo.org restoration & post-mortem References: <20140118050256.GF3378@orbis-terrarum.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 83ced1a4-19cf-427b-bb39-bcf12ae3e5b4 X-Archives-Hash: 4344082062fa7daa5750eb4537220bfe On 01/18/2014 01:23 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On 18 January 2014 18:02, Robin H. Johnson > wrote: > > - More people need to use the infra-status page to learn about the state > of Gentoo services. > > > > A service middle layer like fastly or cloudflare No, These services break SSL and most of the time just lead to redirection loops and other "fun". Also ClownFlair doesn't work properly without Javascript ... So it'd actually reduce availability and the size of our wallet, which doesn't sound like a good strategy to me. > which could link to the > infra page would be good here perhaps, so when an outage occurred ( at > least on the web side ) appropriate links to infra could be given. The more sane fix would be low DNS TTL and rotating DNS to a different IP if things are down. > And the infra status page is not exactly obvious. Its not listed on the > "gentoo sites" list on the top right, and perhaps it aught to be. Yes, that might be quite nice (plus maybe posting longer outages in a way that they are visible on the frontpage?) Have fun, Patrick