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

[Ed McNierney]

picky, picky, picky.....

On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> Thanks for doing this.. now if someone could do the same for
> https://dev.laptop.org/translate as well :-P
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Ed McNierney<ed at laptop.org> wrote:
>> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>>>>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>
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> Sayamindu Dasgupta
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