Hi all, James Troup and I have just finished moving bugs.debian.org from master.debian.org to a new system, spohr.debian.org. For those interested in such details, it's a dual hyperthreaded Xeon hosted at Oregon State University, with lots of disk space and I'm told 3 OC-48s' worth of bandwidth. The reason for this move is that master has been getting rather low on disk space of late, it's difficult to add more to that particular machine, and it's become obvious that trying to run the lists.debian.org web archives and bugs.debian.org on the same machine is an increasingly painful proposition. This has caused some operational difficulties and, in a couple of cases, restricted the set of things we might be able to do with the BTS. CPU load has also been a perpetual problem. The new system has more than enough resources for our current needs and plenty of room for expansion. With any luck, most people won't notice too much in the way of difference for the moment. The main exception will be people who are running BTS-related scripts on master. For the moment, you don't need to do anything. spohr is currently restricted-access (which may change - I think James will be posting about this and auric/klecker soon), but the BTS scripts and spool data will continue to be mirrored to master in the same place as before, so your scripts should keep working transparently. The one known issue is that, if you've been referring to public_html directories on master using http://bugs.debian.org/~username/ URLs (debbugsgtk was mentioned, and there may be others), then those won't work any more. Sorry about this, and about the lack of advance notice - please contact owner@bugs and/or debian-admin if changing them is impractical and perhaps something can be arranged. Many thanks to Brainfood, the site where master and murphy are hosted, for sponsoring this service for the last number of years. Obviously, no slight to them is intended in moving bugs.debian.org away: the opportunity came up and there were a number of good reasons to take it. Debian mailing lists, the list archives, and debian.org mail handling will still remain in Brainfood's care. Please report any problems to owner@bugs.debian.org, as usual. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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