Infrastructure

Quick update:
We have an infra network issue, more VMs are affected - will follow-up
with details later

There's no need for this machine to depend on network backup; some weekly backups would be enough.

Cloph also said yesterday on the IRC that it has a rotating disk - so I guess the best here would be to get there a SSD & unplug it from any networking filesystem or what it has; I am sure this would make the crashtesting even faster.

It's not a backup issue - we seem to have general network issues between
the machines all of a sudden, intermittently happening

When ordering the machines we explicitly asked for SSDs and were told
they make no sense at all, so we didn't buy them. Can you check back
with Moggi on that maybe?

In other words: Sure, we can look into that - but I'd like to be sure
that makes sense, as thoughts on that differ ;-)

I've talked to Moggi now; wrt. the SSD, that was a lack of info on my side - sorry about that!

But we'd really need this machine not to be bound to any networking trouble - ie. it should work regardless of what's up with the network :-) - it should be only crashtesting over and over again, even if the net is down... Moggi said that he was experiencing the slow i/o issue for something like the last 2.5 weeks.

I agree that the crashtesting users have been suffering quite heavily,
and I can only excuse for that

The initial idea - having the VM in our infra to stabilize all systems
and share resources is still charming, but we hit a couple of unexpected
issues that mainly the crashtesting VM was suffering from

I will discuss with Alex during FOSDEM how to proceed, whether we're
safe now, or should untie it from the other machines

Sorry again for this, I understand you're not the happiest at the moment :-)

currently both bugs.documentfoundation.org and gerrit.documentfoundation.org are down -- is this related?

(note there likely will be a major release tomorrow --- extended parts of our infra being down would be a Bad Thing)

That's related to the same issue indeed - following-up with details on
the public lists as soon as possible