Executive summary: biojava.org new DNS is propagating as I write this email. Eventually everyone should see the new wiki-based site running on the new OBF server hardware. Read on for more info on some other upcoming changes...
Hi biojava people, Sorry for the interruption but I've got some important site and server news. People will also see multiple copies of this note as I slowly transition sites over one at a time. We are in the midst of moving all of our websites, mailing lists, developers and sourcecode repositories onto more modern hardware located in a 2nd Boston area datacenter facility. The transition is important for a couple of reasons - the most urgent being that we are going to lose internet connectivity in our current hosting facility on March 27th 2006. That datacenter belongs to Wyeth Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wyeth Research & Genetics Institute have been long time significant supporters & hosting providers for OBF servers and projects -- we owe them a great deal of gratitude and public acknowledgment for hosting our servers over many years. Speaking as a hardware geek I can tell you that the many years of high-bandwidth, trouble free hosting have been invaluable for our efforts and projects. Sadly, it is no longer possible for them to host our servers as they need to begin making some network and WAN circuit changes that will no longer support direct internet facing servers (such as ours) in Cambridge. The other major reason for the transition is our need to relocate onto hardware that can better be remotely managed (as our volunteer administrators are scattered all over the globe). My employer, BioTeam Inc. has donated new server hardware and is also providing the hosting facilities in a Tier 1 Boston area colocation facility. Infrastructure geeks can see pictures of the colocation cage and the new OBF servers online at this URL: http://bioteam.net/gallery/bioteamBDC -- those servers also host EMBOSS FTP/CVS and mailing lists. Current status of the migration: - All 57 mailing lists have been moved over to the new hardware (you may have noticed "lists.open-bio.org" showing up in your list messages) - The new anonymous sourcecode server is running at http:// code.open-bio.org. "cvs.biojava.org" is already pointing at it. - Your website (biojava.org) was moved to the new hardware (and new Wiki site!) about an hour ago - Developers with CVS accounts have *NOT* been migrated yet Basically we are trying to relocate everything but the developers over the next few days so we can spend the weekend on the developer and CVS transition. If DNS has not propagated yet, point your browser at http:// biojava.open-bio.org -- that is the new site your group has been building. What is happening now is DNS pointers for biojava.org and www.biojava.org are slowly changing over to point at the wiki and the new hardware. Eventually you'll see the same site regardless of which URL you use. For biojava users -------------------------- Please keep an eye on your website and mailing lists and let [EMAIL PROTECTED] know if there are any problems with the transition. In particular your new wiki site contains embedded links to some parts of the 'old' static website. I caught the obvious ones -- (biojava.org/downloads/ and biojava.org/docs/ but I may have missed some. Please let me know about any broken links. Also someone may want to clean up the biojava logo image now in the wiki to make the white background transparent. For developers and leaders --------------------------------------------- Whomever will be updating the static parts of the website (/downlaod/ and /docs/) in the future will need login access to our new central webserver machine, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] to request a user account for biojava website maintenance. For people with CVS commit/write access --------------------------------------------------------- Also note that when we finally do transition over to the new developer machine (where the real sourcecode lives), ALL developers will need to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to request a password reset. Although we can transition usernames, settings and home directories over from the old to the new machine we can not transition over existing passwords as they are stored in incompatible hashed formats. All developers are going to need new passwords for the new developer machine. We will likely make the developer machine swap this weekend. Reporting Problems / Help & Assistance ------------------------------------------------------ The transition will be complicated, we need your help to spot problems and glitches! The OBF has a new helpdesk ticketing system set up at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" so that all OBF admins can read and respond to issues and problems. Most troubles should be reported to that address. For urgent problems, especially during this transition period, feel free to contact me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (ichat/ aol/aim screen name: bioteamdag). Regards, Chris Dagdigian open-bio.org _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
