JIRA is updated to version v6.4.5.
There will some power work done in NPCF (blue waters building) Monday the 18th. This should not affect us. There are 4 power lines going into the building and they will keep 2 power lines up at all times. However if things go wrong all power could go down, and this could bring down the networking at NPCF, which will affect all networking at NCSA as well. If this happens all external networking to NCSA will be down.
Again, this a heads up, and should not affect us unless things go very wrong.
Sunday 2015-05-03 NCSA Open Source will be rebooted (as well as all other machines machined by ISDA). This downtime should be minimal. During this downtime crowd, JIRA and FishEye will be upgraded to the latest version.
We had a short power blib that made opensource reboot around 6:06 Central Time today. After the reboot the networking did not recover correctly and the machine was unaccessible until 8:30 Central time. All services are back up and running normal again.
I'd like to introduce a new feature to NCSA Open Source, HipChat. This is a persistent chat client that allows you to create rooms to chat about your code or anything else. You can use your existing NCSA Open Source account to login into this service and start chatting right away. You can have direct conversations with people as well as group chats. You can upload attachments and it is even possible to make rooms publicly available, allowing people to join your room without creating a NCSA Open Source account.
To get started you can go to https://hipchat.ncsa.illinois.edu and use your existing account information, your will need to use your email address for your login. You can also download clients for your machine or phone, all you have to do is change the server from the default to hipchat.ncsa.illinois.edu (on the phone under advanced settings and on the desktop client under settings). Once you change it you are good to go (if you were logged in already you will need to logout first).
A new plugin is installed that allows you to create polls in confluence. Feel free to try it out and give feedback if you like this feature or not.
Date has changed from 2015-01-28 to 2015-01-29.
Open Source requires a reboot to fix the GHOST vulnerability. The machine will be down for approximately half an hour.
The default notification scheme for JIRA will be changed. You will no longer get a notification when an issue is created. Some active projects would send out many emails to large numbers of people whenver a new issue was created. The result is that people would ignore all emails from JIRA. To solve this JIRA will no longer send an email to all people associated with a project when an issue is created. However, you will still get emails when an issue is assigned to you, you created an issue, or if you watch an issue.
It is recommended to use a more flexible system of filters and notifications/subscriptions instead. For a good description on how to use this see http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/bulk-watch-meet-the-new-jira/.
For example, I have created a filter for all projects that I'm interested when a task is created in the last hour ((project = SEAD OR project = BD) AND created >= -1h ORDER BY created). Once I have this filter I can subscribe to it and get notified by email when something happens. When creating the notification you can specify how often to send the email (make sure it is the same duration as the created above). In this case I will use advanced and specify it using 0 0 * * * ? * for the advanced option.
Feel free to leave comments here with more filters and other ways to get notification.
Most services need to be updated on NCSA Open Source to resolve a critical security issue in the Atlasssian software. The services will have a brief downtime on Thursday 01-22-15 around 9PM central.
A new buildserver (buildserver-2) is online. It has the same configuration as the other buildserver. If you notice anything that is out of the ordinary please send email to opensource@ncsa.illinois.edu and we will look at it as soon as possible.
The following services have been updated to the latest version:
- Confluence
- Fisheye/Crucible
- JIRA
- Stash
- NEXUS
All services should be back to operational again.
Builds will no longer be done on opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu, instead they will be done on 2 separate machines. Both of these machines are running ubuntu 12.04 and have been configured with the same set of software. Please send email to opensource@ncsa.illinois.edu if you notice your builds failing.
Installed Software:
- ant 1.9
- buckminster 4.2
- java 1.6
- java 1.7
- java 1.8
- maven 2.2
- maven 3.2
- node 0.10
- sbt 0.13