Category Archives: Maintenance

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 4:01 pm on May 8, 2017
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Server Load Woes

If you got an error like this when using SVNSVN Short for "SubVersioN", it's the code management system used to maintain the plugins hosted on WordPress.org. It's similar to git. today, it’s not just you:

Committing transaction...:   Error: Commit failed (details follow):  Error: Error running context: The server unexpectedly closed the connection.  Completed!:

Or

Committing transaction...:   Error: Commit failed (details follow):  Error: Failed to start '/home/svn/repos/wp-plugins/hooks/pre-commit' hook  

There was a high server load on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ on Monday May 8th, which caused the system to have those errors. When it happens to you, just go make a coffee or bake a pie and come back in a bit.

#downtime, #server-load

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 11:10 pm on September 1, 2016
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Plugin Reviews Disabled (And More about the Support Forums)

Reviews will be broken until about September 5.

This is directly related to the support forumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. maintenance.

Per @jmdodd:

We’ll do our best to keep this window short, but for now the choice was between closing reviews for 4 days or closing all of the support forums for 24 to 48 hours.

The MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team felt (and I personally agree) that it is far more important to have support forums than the reviews. And the support forums were unsustainable. So while this is a wrench in your plugins, it’s far far better than no forums at all for Labor Day Weekend.

Updated Sept 2 0233

From @otto42

Consider this an announcement: all pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme connections to the forums are currently considered broken. We expected that. It will take a few days to restore this, and that’s considered acceptable losses, for now. We will be working to fix these issues over the next few days, and it will be corrected as we get to it. In other words, we are aware of the issues and working to fix them.

Updated Sept 2 1628

You may have noticed you can’t do some things in the forums anymore. This is known. Please read Forum Bugs and Broken Things before you complain. Here’s a list of what you’re probably trying to figure out. ALL of these are being working on. Don’t fret. Enjoy your weekend.

  • Plugin authors can’t sticky
  • Plugin committer/author support views don’t work
  • Plugin authors can’t resolve threads
  • Pinned topics are unpinned in plugin forums
  • Plugin Authors aren’t labelled as Plugin Authors
  • Cannot subscribe to plugin forums

#forums, #reviews

Andrew Nacin 7:48 pm on April 23, 2013  

Plugins SVN Repository DNS Change Today

In a short while (next 30 minutes or so), plugins.svn.wordpress.org will undergo a DNSDNS DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System - how you assign a human readable address to a website’s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252). change as part of a datacenter migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.. The TTLs are low, so this should only take a few minutes.

Nothing will go down, but the SVNSVN Short for "SubVersioN", it's the code management system used to maintain the plugins hosted on WordPress.org. It's similar to git. repository will become temporarily read-only. If you try to commit code during this time, you’ll receive an maintenance message pointing you here. PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party pages and downloads will not be affected.

Also, the associated TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. at plugins.trac.wordpress.org will be taken offline (for up to an hour) while it is migrated and re-synced.