DMOZ Major Upgrade

Just a quick heads-up

[victor]

The long trailed DMOZ major hardware and software overhaul has just started in earnest.

That means adding sites or applying to be editors won't be possible for about a week -- estimated restart date is noon PST on Monday, July 21.

So it's a good breathing space to polish up that editor application, or to complete that "under construction" site ready for the new DMOZ era!

[coosblues]

Editor Outage
The ODP editing scripts are temporarily offline due to a system upgrade. Expect to see the editor side up and running by noon PST on Monday, July 21. The editor forums will remain open during this time. We do realize that this is inconvenient; please consider this a well-earned vacation. Thank you for your patience!
ODP Staff

Just to let you all know not to expect anything to change about your submission status for a bit - that's the message I got today when I logged into my editor account.

[mack]

I just tried a Submit....

"The ODP public cgi scripts, including the 'add url' and 'apply to be an editor' scripts, are temporarily offline due to a system upgrade. Expect to see the scripts up and running by noon PST on Monday, July 21. We do realize that this is inconvenient; thank you for your patience.
ODP Staff"

Hope it's a change for the better.

Mack.

[edit_g]

Hope it's a change for the better

Seeing as a change for the worse would be impossible without turning off DMOZ for good, it will have to be a change for the better...

[kctipton]

>>Seeing as a change for the worse would be impossible without turning off DMOZ for good, it will have to be a change for the better... <<

Uhh, where's that 'notify a moderator' link when you need it?

[edit_g]

Uhh, where's that 'notify a moderator' link when you need it?

Well, submitting a url has been impossible for quite some time, this is well known fact, so could you perhaps tell me how an upgrade could possibly be a change for the worse?

[skibum]

It must depend on where and when the URL is submitted. From here they've been going through with little or no problem whatsoever up until last week (the last time we tried to submit).

[totalXSive]

Whenever I've done test submissions to see if the system really is broken, my submissions have gone through, and I've not really noticed a huge in submissions lately so someone must be getting through.

The new servers should keep us going for some time, and I'm pretty sure the new machines will be more reliable than the last bunch. This week's downtime is mostly so that a backup can be made of the existing server without it being affected by new submissions or editor activity. Normal (and I do mean "normal", not "reduced") service should be resumed shortly.

The editors are also getting new forum software in the next week or so, and, eventually, a new editing system. A research server has already been added, and is being used for various quality control purposes.

[John_Caius]

Hi totalXSive - nice to see another senior dmozer make it over to WW! :)