Hang in there, John. Even super-humans make mistakes. :) This email that you wrote is just one more reason that I love working with jQuery. Cheers to you for having the honesty and integrity to post this message to the group.
Karl ___________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com On Aug 31, 2006, at 1:45 PM, John Resig wrote: > Hi Everyone - > > Due to negligence on my part, the jQuery servers and code have been is > a strange state the past couple days - to summarize: > > 1) For the past couple days the jQuery server has been crashing every > night. I had no idea why until the a few minutes ago. It was related > to the nightly backups that I make of the site. The problem was that > one backup failed at one point (leaving a .tar file) which was then > encompassed by the next backup (which also failed) - then the next and > next, etc. This meant that every night when it tried to make the > nightly backup it ran out of space and caused a whole bunch of > critical services (web, mail) to crash. > > Short story: If there are any sysadmin-types who also care deeply > about JavaScript that want to join the jQuery project, please let me > know. I've been talking with some companies about donating servers and > bandwidth, so that's an option in the future. > > 2) The 1.0.1 release, last night, was quite spotty. I released the > code with a syntax error in it (ugh!). I fixed that late last night. > However, I also forgot to check the release against the test suite - > so I left in an obvious bug with selectors. This has since been fixed. > If you downloaded 1.0.1 last night, please re-download it now. > > Sorry, again, for all the troubles - I'm going to try to be more > thorough in the future. > > --John > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
