Today at 6.46am Dirk Mueller switched the mail handling for KDE to a new server. This includes all the mail to @kde.org addresses, including the complete handling of all mailinglists. So far there has been zero complaints and zero downtime, so we can say the switch has went smooth and successful. There are some area’s [...]

Maybe it’s a good idea to summarize a bit about the activities the sysadmin has done the last few weeks. We have been working on KTown. This is one of the older machine’s we maintain and we need to shut it down. Due to it’s age we can’t depend on it anymore. KTown was a [...]

Due to a failed disk, one of our anonsvn/anongit servers is down. while other servers have taken over most services, the repository browser on projects.kde.org and quickgit.kde.org depend on that local mirror. That is why they are currently unavailale….

This week we have implemented a system which makes it possible to return the geographically closest anongit and anonsvn mirror available for you. We have three mirrors for both. One not located in europe and two are. If you are europe you want to use the ones in europe and if you are physically closer [...]

Today is a historical day. The last 5 free blocks of IPv4 blocks were assigned to the regional organisation. Which means the central organisation is now out of IPv4. Why would you care and why should KDE care? In 6 months to a year we can expect the first users who only have IPv6 who [...]