November 2012 - Announce - oVirt List Archives

New website live! Feedback welcome
by Dave Neary 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

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. -- 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

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Re: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov
by Karsten 'quaid' Wade 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

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 > -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41

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Fwd: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov
by Karsten 'quaid' Wade 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

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

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[Fwd: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov]
by Mike Burns 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

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

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Updated oVirt Engine Packages now available
by Ofer Schreiber 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

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

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oVirt 3.2 Released Delayed
by Mike Burns 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

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

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