[development] drupal.org is down <eom>

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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Dries Buytaert schrieb:
> 
> On 10 Jul 2007, at 17:09, Dries Buytaert wrote:
>> The down time seriously hinders my patch reviewing -- I tried for 30
>> minutes today, but I simply couldn't get two pages to load in a row
>> (two reviews were lost). Instead of reviewing patches the next couple
>> of days, I'm going to dedicate my time to help with the infrastructure
>> instead.
> 
> Gerhard, I'd like to take a lead in managing a small team of people that
> are willing to help with code changes or other things that don't require
> shell access.  It would be great if you could give us some starting
> points.  What are the steps required to tackle this, and what steps can
> we open up to more people?

Dries, it is very nice to offer some of your not so copious spare time
for this good cause. Sadly, there actually isn't that much you, I, or
any OSUOSL outsider can do when it comes to our hardware and its setup.

After discussing your offer with Narayan, we agreed that it would be
best if you do that what you can do best: review patches. Especially
patches which would help our infrastructure.

The number one patch to review is David's master-slave patch at:

http://drupal.org/node/147160

Since we can't move drupal.org to Drupal 6 right now, we'd actually need
a Drupal 5 version of this, thus there shouldn't be too much reworking.

It would probably be best if we'd just send specific queries to the
slaves in a round-robin fashion.

Any resulting patch should be tested a lot especially for inserts and
updates when the server is under high load.

There are also a number of other performance related patches in the
patch queue. These won't help use immediately, but will in the long run.

Of course, there's always the game of "review slow sql queries" to be
played. The project module has a lot on offer and we can provide slow
query logs.

Cheers,
	Gerhard
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