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Hi
Can someone please explain all the downtime joomlaforge is haven at the moment??
Cheers,
Aron

I'm also experiencing downtime, but nobody with an explanation?

Been down for at least 1 1/2 to 2 hours now.


Let's hope it is an upgrade in progress.

Down on this end as well. I have the 1.0.4 tar file if anyone needs it with a few other mods. Hopefully we shouldn't have long to wait.

Looks like someone was kind enough to put up a notice page:

Joomla! is not available

developer.joomla.org is currently down for maintenance.
For extended maintenance periods, status will be posted to the Joomla forum at:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,152.0.html

I dont mind the forge being down for a while. I DO mind not being able to download the basic things such as Joomla. 1.0.4 ?!? and the  upgrades. When the forge is going down, put a mirror on a different location for these importent files!

MarkV wrote:I dont mind the forge being down for a while. I DO mind not being able to download the basic things such as Joomla. 1.0.4 ?!? and the  upgrades. When the forge is going down, put a mirror on a different location for these importent files!

Ever heard of http://www.joomlaya.com?

I should not have to go to a external website to get the latest Joomla! version.
But thats just my 2 ct.

I always keep an the tar file to the latest Joomla version on my hardrive. If anyone ever needs it uploaded should the Forge be down, I'd be more than happy to help.

I had opened a ticket on this and this is the last comment from them:

"I found the issue. Our monitoring tool is setup such that when it detects certain kinds of small issues, it attempts to correct them. It seems that the latest change to the tool inadvertantly reversed a check and the tool was trying to 'fix' a problem that didn't exist. When the
tool goes to fix things, it creates a special file on the filesytem that causes the 'site is down for maintenance' to appear. I've corrected the monitoring tool...I'm terribly sorry about that."

So, please let me know if the problem still exists and i will re-open the ticket.

Cheers.

I'm getting that message now (for the first time). Have been like this since I first checked 15 minutes ago

Down again ....  :'(

and up again...

Arghhh !!
Can you believe that, sometimes I really miss $amboforge, it is so fast and reliable. Maybe less crowded I must admit 

But please DO something !!!

It seems to be working again?

I go along with MarkV.

I don't want to get registered somewhere to download core-files.
Needing an additional (coming close to 130 passes) Username & Password
"whaa ?!?!" scares me.

A mirror would be fine.

greetz
stefan

I've mirrored the most recent core files on my personal site just in case the forge goes down again:

http://www.saintlink.com/downloads/joomla/

Help yourself to whatever files you need.

I'm not sure I follow you here? 130 passes at what?

phreak_02 wrote:I go along with MarkV.

I don't want to get registered somewhere to download core-files.
Needing an additional (coming close to 130 passes) Username & Password
"whaa ?!?!" scares me.

A mirror would be fine.

greetz
stefan

rhuk: I'm guessing he meant 130 useraccounts, on "various internet sites". Loads to keep track of, you know.
(btw rhuk: a joomla christmas wish: that you start redesigning the forge to be as nice and useful as your other work (this site in particular)  )

unfortunatley as has been outlined in other threads, the forge is very unskinable. 

When is developer.joomla supposed to be up again?

It's up now

It's up, it's down...
when it's up, it's slow
when it's down, it sucks 

rhuk wrote:I had opened a ticket on this and this is the last comment from them:

"I found the issue. Our monitoring tool is setup such that when it detects certain kinds of small issues, it attempts to correct them. It seems that the latest change to the tool inadvertantly reversed a check and the tool was trying to 'fix' a problem that didn't exist. When the
tool goes to fix things, it creates a special file on the filesytem that causes the 'site is down for maintenance' to appear. I've corrected the monitoring tool...I'm terribly sorry about that."

So, please let me know if the problem still exists and i will re-open the ticket.

Cheers.

Down today - 2006.01.05 - 15:47 (GMT +1) since 2 hours.

It's back (huzzah)!

I finally managed to grab 1.0.5, but without the aid of my trusty Free Download Manager. The only file it could grab was "forbidden.html." Downloading normally through Firefox worked fine, though.

It's down again.
And it's so damn slow that I even had to wait several minutes for this message to appear...


Edit: It's responding now, but there is an error message below the banner:

[Exception in:/sfmain/jsp/site_news_tile.jsp] An unexpected system error has occurred


Edit 2: And down again

We are currently upgrading the forge to version 4.3 of SFEE.

It would be useful to have a downtime schedule, where one could find the reason and expected duration of the downtime. In case of an unexpected downtime, there should be at least some kind of confirmation that somebody (of yous guys ) is aware that the server is down.

Also it would be useful to have some kind of message popping up when the forge is going down. Now, I was working on my Wiki page and the save button didn't work and my work was lost (kinda, I was able to go 'back' and copy it onto my clipboard).

The forge page shows:

For extended maintenance periods, status will be posted to the Joomla forum at:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,152.0.html

Seeing is believing....

Other than that, keep up the good work! 
Matthijs

Thanks for the input, I will see what we can do to better inform u about downtime.