[Olpc-sysadmin] Fwd: translate.laptop.org is not responding at all

[Ed McNierney]

An excellent suggestion, and overdue, so I did it.  Let me know if you  
find any problems with it.

	- Ed


On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> I put up big bold notices on all L10n related pages : please use the
> template {{L10n-sl-migration}} if you find that I have missed any
> page.
> However, despite that, I noticed on IRC that some people were getting
> confused - while we wait for translate.laptop.org to come back, can we
> temporarily redirect dev.laptop.org/translate to
> translate.sugarlabs.org ?
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Chris Leonard<cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>>
>> Automated re-directs are great. . . until they don't work :-(
>>
>> I've copied this to the wiki-gang so that they are aware of the  
>> opportunity
>> to chip in on updating the documentation (repointing links) for the
>> Localization process on the wiki.
>>
>> cjl
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll probably put up a large notice on as many l10n related wiki  
>>> pages
>>> I can find to use translate.sl.org or translate.laptop.org so that
>>> this confusion does not repeat.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sayamindu
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Ed McNierney<ed at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>> Chris -
>>>> Thanks.  Yes, he should, and would have - if he had known.
>>>> There are two problems here.  Users had been using
>>>> dev.laptop.org/translate,
>>>> which had been redirecting to translate.laptop.org.  That was/is  
>>>> still
>>>> working, but it should be redirecting people to  
>>>> translate.sugarlabs.org.
>>>>  The server running translate.laptop.org was supposed to also  
>>>> redirect
>>>> users
>>>> to translate.sugarlabs.org, and it would have done so if the  
>>>> machine
>>>> were
>>>> working.  It seems that that machine went down sometime about a  
>>>> day ago
>>>> and
>>>> no one noticed or responded to it.
>>>> So what happened was that dev.laptop.org/translate redirected to
>>>> translate.laptop.org, which went nowhere.  What should have  
>>>> happened is
>>>> that
>>>> dev.laptop.org/translate redirected to translate.laptop.org, which
>>>> should
>>>> have been a DNS alias to translate.sugarlabs.org.  This would have
>>>> produced
>>>> the right result even if awk (the server responding to
>>>> translate.laptop.org)
>>>> was offline.
>>>> Deep is back in action thanks to Sayamindu's help last night, and  
>>>> I'm
>>>> responsible for fixing up the DNS work.
>>>> - Ed
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Chris Leonard wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't Deep be using http://translate.sugarlabs.org/  ?
>>>>
>>>> The Tamil and Sinhala projects respectively.
>>>>
>>>> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ta/
>>>>
>>>> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/
>>>>
>>>> cjl
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org>
>>>>> Date: June 18, 2009 7:16:04 PM EDT
>>>>> To: sysadmin at laptop.org
>>>>> Subject: translate.laptop.org is not responding at all
>>>>> Deep from Sri Lanka is trying to use http://dev.laptop.org/translate
>>>>> and
>>>>> it is not working at all.  I can't connect to it, either.  The URL
>>>>> redirects
>>>>> to translate.laptop.org, which doesn't respond.  This seems  
>>>>> relatively
>>>>> urgent and serious for the folks doing the Tamil and SInhala
>>>>> translations.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>
>>
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>
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> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]