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Title: Back On Line (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: rocksteady on January 17, 2010, 03:07:39 PM
Hey Everyone,

We'll take the forum offline today @ 22:00 UTC/GMT in order to complete the planned set of changes we've been working on during the last days.

We encourage everyone to hold their questions for a while. So far all the updates went smooth and we should be up + running shortly after. Please keep in mind that this is not a typical forum upgrade, we're upgrading the back-end that runs all of our projects/hosts.

I'd also like to inform our funky moderation team to keep an eye on their mailbox since communication -if any- during the upgrades would be via email instead of PMs.

Cheers

TimeZone conversions FYI:

Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: rocksteady on January 17, 2010, 04:32:01 PM
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Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: zef on January 17, 2010, 06:24:29 PM
Budapest:  23:00 GMT+1 :)
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: Blackosx on January 17, 2010, 11:25:21 PM
  • London:  22:00 UTC / GMT
Has it been done with all systems back online?  ;D
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: rocksteady on January 17, 2010, 11:33:55 PM
heh! no not yet, bit of procastrination due to family time...

Gents, we're going offline in 5 minutes, please save any drafts you may have
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: Blackosx on January 19, 2010, 11:32:20 PM
Wow.. All Change!
I like the new look and am looking forward to an exciting future.

It was worth the wait ;)
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: rocksteady on January 20, 2010, 12:46:33 AM
Thanks Blackosx :)

For everyone's  info:

-I'm aware of Safari's rendering glitch and I'm in contact with the devs of SMF about this. Every other Mac browsers works fine (Camino, Firefox, Opera, Chrome Omniweb). If you spot anything else, please drop a heads up here.

-1st priority was security, anti-spam + moderation updates, the new look came as the cherry on top of the new  version. I do agree that is easier to read, esp for people with not-so-perfect eyesight like me.

-Stay tuned for updates, the best things to come happen come from people getting together, contributing talent + work.

[Special note for my mod ninjas: Please take a screenshot of the Moderation panel as displayed in your favourite browser/OS and PM it to me. I'm still finessing this one]
Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: prasys on January 22, 2010, 01:43:47 PM
Just a suggestion guys , how about having patch contribution section to the Vodooo projects , whereby folks can post their patches , it would be easier. Don't you think ?

Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: rocksteady on January 22, 2010, 01:50:41 PM
Good idea prasys, we've been talking about this now let's see how it should be integrated. Maybe under each project ie Chameleon patches should go under Chameleon boards, VoodooHDA patches under VoodooHDA, etc.

A child board under DevTalk maybe..

Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: zef on January 22, 2010, 01:53:36 PM
Good idea prasys, we've been talking about this now let's see how it should be integrated. Maybe under each project ie Chameleon patches should go under Chameleon boards, VoodooHDA patches under VoodooHDA, etc.

Yeah, I think each board(~project) could have its own "Patches" section.
Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: rocksteady on January 22, 2010, 01:56:51 PM
Sweet, i'll come back to this later zef/prasys

i'm almost done with the anti-spam filters :)
Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: rocksteady on January 26, 2010, 01:54:37 PM
@ prasys + anyone else contributing patches, the dedicated section (http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/board,28.0.html) is now under DevTalk  :)
Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: rocksteady on January 27, 2010, 09:43:02 PM
Safari / Webkit browsers seem to work fine now, if anyone mentions any glitches, please let us know
Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: Blackosx on January 28, 2010, 08:17:05 AM
Safari / Webkit browsers seem to work fine now, if anyone mentions any glitches, please let us know
That's better now, all rendering issues are gone far as I can tell.
Good work rocksteady
Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: rocksteady on January 30, 2010, 03:07:31 AM
Thanks for confirming so B.

More test here on my end, Safari, MobileSafari (iPhone/Pod Touch), Chrome, OmniWeb, Shiira all render fine.

Back to finish w/ the filters
Title: Re: Back online (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: rocksteady on January 31, 2010, 09:17:01 PM
We'll take the forum offline today for minor maintenance. Should take no more than 1 hour

London: 21:00 GMT/UTC

New York: 16:00 UTC-5
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: Blackosx on January 31, 2010, 09:28:47 PM
Thanks for the reminder rocksteady.  8)
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: rocksteady on January 31, 2010, 09:49:32 PM
Save any drafts you may have Gents,

Going offline in 10mins
Title: Re: Back On Line (Was: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime)
Post by: rocksteady on January 31, 2010, 11:20:53 PM
OK done!

As usual if anyone mentions any glitches, please let us know by posting in this thread.

No aesthetic changes this time, just minor checks.
Title: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime
Post by: rocksteady on December 01, 2010, 01:17:05 PM
Hey y'all

We'll take the forum offline for some minor maintenance today @ 18:00 16:00 GMT.
Should take a few hours to come back online.

@DevTeam: Repo Server will stay unaffected
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime, Dec. 1st 2010
Post by: rocksteady on December 02, 2010, 10:34:32 AM
Most updates are completed

Might need to take the forum offline for intermittent checks

Registration temporarily unavailable
Title: Re: Forum Maintenance + Planned Downtime, Dec. 1st 2010
Post by: rocksteady on December 02, 2010, 04:42:26 PM
All critical stuff completed, registration is available again.

If anyone spots any glitches, please let us know.