[OpenStack-Infra] ask.openstack.org down for some days

Bernd Bausch berndbausch at gmail.com
Sun Nov 10 01:06:16 UTC 2019


Yes, I guess it's still useful. Traffic is not very high, perhaps 5 
questions a day (if there are logs, it should be easy to confirm this), 
both from absolute beginners and advanced users.

No idea what time and skill is required to maintain an Askbot site, but 
I am certainly curious.

Bernd.

On 2019/11/10 2:07 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> For some reason Apache has been failing to restart during daily log
> rotation all week. I've manually started it again. Most of the
> sysadmins have been busy with other things in Shanghai (myself
> included), but I had a few free minutes on a layover just now.
>
> It's worth keeping in mind that the ask.openstack.org site has
> basically been unmaintained for years, ever since the AskBot
> maintainer OSF was contracting to run it disappeared. If folks are
> still finding the service useful, then we probably need to have a
> conversation about finding a maintainer for it.



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