New website live! Feedback welcome
by Dave Neary
Hi everyone,
The new oVirt website is now live!
http://www.ovirt.org
We have made some changes to the infrastructure (the website is now
running on MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org on Red Hat's Platform as
a Service offering OpenShift: https://openshift.redhat.com) and also to
the look and feel. There is a new theme, designed and laid out by
Garrett Lesage, some new content to discover, and best of all, since the
entire website is now a wiki, it will be much easier to maintain over time.
We have been careful to ensure that all of the old website links
redirect to appropriate pages on the new site. If you find any dead
links, or redirects which do not make sense, please let us know! And as
the site has had limited exposure up to this point, we are happy to hear
your feedback on things you like, and things we can improve.
Thank you all for your support, assistance and understanding throughout
this process!
Regards,
Dave.
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Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13
11 years, 11 months
Re: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov
by Karsten 'quaid' Wade
This outage is now over.
The wiki is writeable again, redirects of old content to new locations
are working, and you should be able to go about reading, writing,
creating, and collaborating. Enjoy the new look&feel:
http://www.ovirt.org
There are a lot of small components making *.ovirt.org run, it's fairly
certain we've missed something. If you see anything wrong, broken, or
confusing a, you can drop by IRC, email infra(a)ovirt.org, or file a
ticket here:
http://fedorahosted.org/ovirt
Thanks to everyone for making this migration happen. It's going to be
nice not having to manage the platform for these non-core-technology
components. The Infra team will be able to focus a bit more on the
deeper parts of the oVirt infrastructure of participation.
In particular, thanks to:
* Garrett Lesage lead the effort to improve not only the look&feel of
the ovirt.org website, but to reconsider the user experience. He worked
on making the top-level of the site show what the technology is, what
the project is, and what you can download and do here. He took on the
challenge of making MediaWiki look good for all the user classes -
casual browser through to regular contributor. (And thanks especially
for saving the front page this week when we realized we didn't have the
desired video content and feed widgets available.)
* Dave Neary focused on taking the framework of the new site and
breathing life in to it with content pages, redirects, MediaWiki
extensions, and so forth. He worked on troubleshooting our transfer
details, tracking project details and progress, and generally beating on
parts until he hammered them in to shape.
Thanks also to Jason Brooks, who took advantage of the tradition of IRC
to just get involved in what was happening. Jason helped troubleshoot
and fix some of the transfer details, such as http rewrite rules.
Overall, I've been pleased with the transparency and accessibility of
the process. I hope others feel the same, but regardless of how you
feel, your feedback is very appreciated.
Thanks - Karsten
On 11/29/2012 01:02 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> This outage is now starting. We'll be freezing the wiki at
> wiki.ovirt.org for the duration of the outage window. If you want to
> watch, participate, or have urgent questions, we're on #ovirt on
> irc.oftc.net.
>
> On 11/28/2012 10:48 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
>> We are having a four-hour freeze and short outage of the wiki and www
>> portions of ovirt.org to migrate to OpenShift.
>>
>> 2100 UTC Thu 29 Nov to 0100 UTC Fri 30 Nov
>>
>> date -d '2100 UTC Thu Nov 29'
>>
>> We are targeting the DNS switch to happen at 2359 UTC Thu 29 Nov.
>>
>> This migration includes updating to a new theme for the site. We expect
>> there to be no downtime for access to content on the website. During the
>> four-hour window we'll be working to make sure URLs linking in to the
>> old content forward directly to the new website. The freeze on the wiki
>> is expected to complete on or before the four-hour mark.
>>
>> The new theme and information layout have been presented and discussed,
>> this is just the final portion where we turn the lights on in a new
>> location, and dim the lights in the old.
>>
>> Any questions, concerns, ideas, etc. just let us know. We'll do a final
>> minute reminder via email and IRC when the outage window starts. Status
>> updates will also by via email and IRC, as arisen.
>>
>> == Affected services ==
>>
>> www.ovirt.org
>> wiki.ovirt.org
>> ovirt.org/releases
>> ovirt.org/meetings
>> ovirt.org/stats
>>
>> == Future considerations ==
>>
>> If we had a strict infrastructure change management process, we would
>> have coordinated better with the rest of the contributor teams to be
>> sure this work didn't interrupt their workflow.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Arch mailing list
>> Arch(a)ovirt.org
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
>>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Arch mailing list
> Arch(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
>
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth
http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com
@quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41
11 years, 11 months
Fwd: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov
by Karsten 'quaid' Wade
Hi:
I should have sent these to the announce@ and users@ mailing lists, just
in case there are wiki editors on those lists who are not reading arch@
(which is ideally the central all-contributors mailing list.)
We'll adjust the Infra team methods in the future to send outage
announcements to all these lists for maximum coverage.
Below are details of this outage, which began 30 minutes ago. The wiki
is in readonly mode until it is migrated fully to OpenShift.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:48:03 -0800
From: Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat
To: <arch(a)ovirt.org> <arch(a)ovirt.org>
CC: infra <infra(a)ovirt.org>
We are having a four-hour freeze and short outage of the wiki and www
portions of ovirt.org to migrate to OpenShift.
2100 UTC Thu 29 Nov to 0100 UTC Fri 30 Nov
date -d '2100 UTC Thu Nov 29'
We are targeting the DNS switch to happen at 2359 UTC Thu 29 Nov.
This migration includes updating to a new theme for the site. We expect
there to be no downtime for access to content on the website. During the
four-hour window we'll be working to make sure URLs linking in to the
old content forward directly to the new website. The freeze on the wiki
is expected to complete on or before the four-hour mark.
The new theme and information layout have been presented and discussed,
this is just the final portion where we turn the lights on in a new
location, and dim the lights in the old.
Any questions, concerns, ideas, etc. just let us know. We'll do a final
minute reminder via email and IRC when the outage window starts. Status
updates will also by via email and IRC, as arisen.
== Affected services ==
www.ovirt.org
wiki.ovirt.org
ovirt.org/releases
ovirt.org/meetings
ovirt.org/stats
== Future considerations ==
If we had a strict infrastructure change management process, we would
have coordinated better with the rest of the contributor teams to be
sure this work didn't interrupt their workflow.
--
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth
http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com
@quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41
11 years, 11 months
[Fwd: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov]
by Mike Burns
Just FYI for people
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com>
> To: <arch(a)ovirt.org> <arch(a)ovirt.org>
> Cc: infra <infra(a)ovirt.org>
> Subject: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30
> Nov
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:48:03 -0800
>
> We are having a four-hour freeze and short outage of the wiki and www
> portions of ovirt.org to migrate to OpenShift.
>
> 2100 UTC Thu 29 Nov to 0100 UTC Fri 30 Nov
>
> date -d '2100 UTC Thu Nov 29'
>
> We are targeting the DNS switch to happen at 2359 UTC Thu 29 Nov.
>
> This migration includes updating to a new theme for the site. We expect
> there to be no downtime for access to content on the website. During the
> four-hour window we'll be working to make sure URLs linking in to the
> old content forward directly to the new website. The freeze on the wiki
> is expected to complete on or before the four-hour mark.
>
> The new theme and information layout have been presented and discussed,
> this is just the final portion where we turn the lights on in a new
> location, and dim the lights in the old.
>
> Any questions, concerns, ideas, etc. just let us know. We'll do a final
> minute reminder via email and IRC when the outage window starts. Status
> updates will also by via email and IRC, as arisen.
>
> == Affected services ==
>
> www.ovirt.org
> wiki.ovirt.org
> ovirt.org/releases
> ovirt.org/meetings
> ovirt.org/stats
>
> == Future considerations ==
>
> If we had a strict infrastructure change management process, we would
> have coordinated better with the rest of the contributor teams to be
> sure this work didn't interrupt their workflow.
>
> --
> Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth
> http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com
> @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41
>
> _______________________________________________
> Arch mailing list
> Arch(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
11 years, 11 months
Updated oVirt Engine Packages now available
by Ofer Schreiber
The oVirt Team is pleased to announce that an updated build of ovirt-engine is now available.
This update resolves bug 869457 [1]. A previous update to the oVirt SDK would cause installs with the AllInOne plugin to fail.
To update your existing system, you can use the engine-upgrade command.
To install a new system from scratch, then follow the normal installation process of:
# yum install ovirt-engine
# engine-setup
New Packages:
ovirt-engine-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-backend-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-config-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-genericapi-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-notification-service-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-restapi-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-setup-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-userportal-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm
All packages are available at http://www.ovirt.org/releases/3.1/rpm/Fedora/17/noarch/
Thanks
The oVirt Team
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/869457
11 years, 12 months
oVirt 3.2 Released Delayed
by Mike Burns
Due to a desire to support Fedora 18 and the Fedora 18 schedule slip, we
have delayed the upcoming 3.2 release. The new target dates are now:
Devel Freeze/Beta: 2012-11-28
Test Day: 2012-12-11
GA: 2013-01-09
Thanks
The oVirt Team
12 years