GitLab is down: urgent

howard.b.golden at gmail.com howard.b.golden at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 16:44:10 UTC 2021


Hi Ben, Richard and Davean,

I would like to help however I can. I already maintain the Haskell
wiki, and I would like to improve and document its configuration using
devops techniques, preferably consistent with gitlab.haskell.org.

Regards,
Howard

On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 12:14 -0400, davean wrote:
> There is the haskell-infrastructure group, who has access. Its
> knowledge of the peculiarities of each of the very different services
> that's harder to keep up to date between people.
> 
> If Ben was hit by a bus it is prepared to be handled. With this
> diversity and level of manpower though stepping in tends to be a high
> cost operation so it is done when necessary.
> 
> -davean
> 
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM Richard Eisenberg <rae at richarde.dev>
> wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > Thanks for getting the fix in so quickly.
> > 
> > However: suppose you were unavailable to do this, due to a well-
> > deserved holiday perhaps. Who else has the credentials and know-how 
> > to step in?
> > 
> > I feel as if we should have a resource somewhere with a definitive
> > list of critical services and who has access to what. Perhaps this
> > list should be kept private, in case the knowledge itself is a
> > (small) security risk -- but it should be written down and shared
> > widely enough that it is unlikely for all people with access to be
> > unavailable at the same time.
> > 
> > Do we have such a resource already?
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > > On Mar 19, 2021, at 9:47 AM, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org> writes:
> > > 
> > >> GHC's GitLab seems to be down.  Ben?
> > >> (I just get 502's)
> > > 
> > > Everything should now be back to normal. I have sent a post-
> > mortem
> > > describing the failure mode and fix. Apologies for the
> > inconvenience!
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > - Ben
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