[racket-users] Re: Package server broken, at least five hundred intro cs students affected!

2019-10-06 Thread gfb
Thank you so much, including for the quick turnaround, on a Sunday no less, 
once you found out!

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Re: [racket-users] Re: Package server broken, at least five hundred intro cs students affected!

2019-10-06 Thread Tony Garnock-Jones
On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 3:26:13 PM UTC+1, Bogdan Popa wrote:
>
> I feel like that was me.  Sorry! 
>

It was :-) No apologies please! There was nothing wrong with your packages; 
it was the package indexer at fault here.

One thing I'd like to do is formalise and then check the contracts that 
describe the information exchanged among the various infrastructure 
services. At the moment it's all very dynamic-typey, not even contracted. 
Introducing machine-checkable descriptions of some of the protocols could 
give us enough leverage to gradually refactor things into better shape.

Regards,
  Tony

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Re: [racket-users] Re: Package server broken, at least five hundred intro cs students affected!

2019-10-06 Thread Bogdan Popa


> (The issue was that some of the packages had started to take advantage of a
> feature of the dependencies list in info.rkt that allowed regular
> expressions in the platform restriction clause. When it came time for the
> indexer to convert the dependencies list to JSON, it failed because it
> didn't know how to handle regular expressions.)

I feel like that was me.  Sorry!

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[racket-users] Re: Package server broken, at least five hundred intro cs students affected!

2019-10-06 Thread Tony Garnock-Jones
Hi Gary,

On Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 11:22:30 PM UTC+1, gfb wrote:
>
> 1. What's wrong with the package server's indexing of updated packages, so 
> my students can proceed.
>

Thanks for the report, and sorry for the delay in responding.

I've made a change that ought to resolve the issue that was preventing the 
indexer from running, and restarted the indexer. It should be back up to 
date in the next few minutes.

(The issue was that some of the packages had started to take advantage of a 
feature of the dependencies list in info.rkt that allowed regular 
expressions in the platform restriction clause. When it came time for the 
indexer to convert the dependencies list to JSON, it failed because it 
didn't know how to handle regular expressions.)
 

> 2. An official channel to report problems with the package server.
>

You found it: emailing me and Jay is as good as it gets at the minute, I'm 
afraid. We should collectively maybe figure out something better for 
infrastructural issues!

Regards,
  Tony

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[racket-users] Re: Package server broken, at least five hundred intro cs students affected!

2019-10-06 Thread Jesse Alama
Hi Gary,

On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 12:22:30 AM UTC+2, gfb wrote:

3. If funding specifically earmarked to support monitoring of and feedback 
> from that channel, fixing of issues, and general reliability work, would 
> help, because I would be happy to contribute some of my professional 
> development funds to that.
>

The core Racket guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd wager that the 
Racket folks would definitely appreciate some $$$, especially to assist 
with devops issues such as sites being down, indexing failing, etc. One way 
to get started would be to set up a recurring donation: 
https://racket-lang.org/sfc.html . I encourage everyone who relies on 
Racket for his work or business to help out in this way.

Jesse

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