[Buildroot] Autobuilder site back online

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 08:03:32 UTC 2013


Hi Thomas,

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As many of you have noticed, the autobuild.buildroot.org web site has
> been down for a number of days. It was hosted on a Virtual Private
> Server that I have been using since 10+ years, but it was getting short
> on disk space, was not very powerful, and more importantly, I did not
> have access to the host machine, which means that whenever something
> bad/wrong was happening, there was nothing I could do, except rely on
> people who didn't always had enough time to take care of the issue in a
> timely fashion.
>
> Therefore, I have migrated the service to a dedicated server that I
> own. I have direct access to the support team, I can reboot the server,
> access the logs. And this server has more disk space (1 TB) and is much
> more powerful than the previous one.
>
> This new service is temporarily available at:
>
>         http://autobuild.humanoidz.org
>
> The build results from the Free Electrons build server have already
> started to flow into this new infrastructure.
>
> There are a few things that remain to be done:
>
>  * Changing the autobuild.buildroot.org to point to this new server.
>    I've already asked Peter to do so.
>
>  * Changing the configuration of the build servers maintained by Peter
>    so that they send their results to the new infrastructure. I've also
>    asked Peter to do so.
>
>  * Re-add the daily e-mails to the new infrastructure. However, since I
>    couldn't access the old server to turn them off, the old server will
>    start sending them (empty probably when it goes up). So as soon as
>    I'll have access to the old server to turn it off, I will migrate
>    the daily e-mails to the new infrastructure.
>
>  * Import the history of build results. This also requires me to have
>    access to the old server and transfer all the results to the new
>    server. It might take a bit of time.
>
> Sorry again for the noise. At least, the build results are back up,
> which is the most important during this -rc cycle.

That is all great to hear, thanks a lot for taking these actions!

Best regards,
Thomas



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