Author Archives: Christer Edwards
A little uneventful
I think it’s been a little while since my last post, so I thought I’d toss something out there to our loyal readers (all three of you!). What have we been working on this week? Let’s see… I pushed hard … Continue reading
Migration aftershocks
As you may have read, we’ve finally made the move to WP 3.1 and migrated from the WPMU installation to the integrated multi-site support in the mainline WordPress latest release. This happened yesterday afternoon, and other than some DNS propagation … Continue reading
Upgraded to 3.1 and Migrated to RHEL6
In preparation for the big release next week the GNOME Sysadmin team has been kickin’ ass and taking names! Today (finally, my fault) we have finished the migration and upgrade of the blogs.gnome.org WordPress installation to 3.1. The site has … Continue reading
Downtime Report : After the dust has settled…
Late last week the main GNOME database server suffered a major crash which resulted in extended downtime for major services such as bugzilla, blogs, and anything else requiring a MySQL backend. There was some data loss, but less than 24hrs … Continue reading
Another busy week
I realized today that it’s been a week or two since my last public update regarding the GNOME Sysadmin team. We’ve been working away on things and are making good progress. Let me just toss out a few things that … Continue reading
Progress Report – Jan 10, 2011
I thought I’d give a quick progress report after taking a long three day weekend. While my break was nice, I came back to quite a few tickets and emails to take care of. I think I’ve managed to get … Continue reading
Monitoring and Security Improvements
Here I am sneaking in some last minute updates before the end of the year. I know I just posted an update a few days ago, but I’ve implemented some additional improvements since then that I wanted to share. First … Continue reading
December Update 2010
Just before the end of the year I thought I’d give one last status update on what I and the team have been working on. As you may imagine, things have been slow due to the holiday season, but we’re … Continue reading
New Additions
The month of November was a very interesting one for me and my family. On Nov 25 (Thanksgiving) our first son was born. Welcome Jack Christer Edwards If he looks a bit grumpy it is because he spent the first … Continue reading
Weekly Report : Week of 2010-11-14
This week has been yet another adventure in my little part of the world. I’ve primarily only been able to do regular maintenance on the GNOME Infrastructure, not having been able to make time for any of the larger projects … Continue reading