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  KDE Core Services: Trouble In Paradise
KDE Official News Posted by Richard Moore on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @17:11
from the oh-shit dept.
As many people will have noticed, things haven't been too rosy in the KDE world for the last few days. Virtually all of our critical services have been broken, including cvs, mailing lists, kde.org mail addresses and a number of web sites (such as developer.kde.org). Unsurprisingly, this has meant that KDE 3.0 Beta 2 (originally scheduled for Monday) has been delayed.


The problems we've been suffering are the result of a number of relatively trivial problems all occurring simultaneously: a DoS attack meant that some planned maintenance on cvs.kde.org needed to be performed immediately, and this took longer than expected because it caused a schedule clash. At the same time the machine room containing master was being cleared of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, a toxic group of chemicals leaving no alternative but to take down the machine (for more info on PCBs see http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/pcb/).

Happily, I can now tell you that thanks to a great deal of generosity and hardwork by David Faure (Mandrake) and the admin team, Dirk Mueller, Adrian Schroeter (SuSE), Stephan Kulow and Chris Schlaeger (SuSE), we have been able to set up a replacement cvs server (kindly paid for by IBM) in the SuSE offices. Martin Konold now has access to master, so mail and other services will be coming back on line too. In addition, George Staikos can take credit for annoying encouraging dfaure, and 'making stupid jokes'. ;-)

All of our data is intact, so the new release, while a few days late, will continue as planned. Things will take a few days to sort themselves out, so please don't all rush to update at once. Many thanks are due to everyone involved in sorting this out.

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CVS is readonly for now
by David Faure on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @17:32
The CVS is available again (at its new location, so remove any /etc/hosts
entries!), but due to the lack of logging for cvs commits (mail setup issues),
it is currently read-only.
Any commit will fail, so don't lose time typing log messages just to see
the commits being rejected :}
This will hopefully get sorted by tomorrow.
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skr1p4 k1ddi3z must die!
by not me on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @18:34
A DoS attack is trivial? Does the CVS server suffer them often?
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Delay no problem for me.
by jorge on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @19:50
I'm still enjoying kde2.2.2 - rock solid for me, so a delay is irrelevant to me at this point. It really sucks about the DoS, I'm glad IBM stepped up to the plate and supported the KDE developers.

Considering what you guys have gone through and the quality of past KDE releases, I'm sure KDE3 will be a awesome!
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Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by reihal on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @21:58
Who could have a motive to do such a thing? It boggles the mind, I can't think of anyone, can you?
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Desktop look...
by ealm on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @06:35
I have been so blinded by KDE for the last year that I've forgot to look on "the other side".
Now it appeares even the GNOME guys do vector themes, AA, nice file management etc - and how nice it can look:
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/themes.php3?skin=2

...it's better than good
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KDE is ruled by BAD MANAGEMENT
by DB on Saturday 09/Feb/2002, @13:05
This is obviously a lie. KDE3B2 got delayed *AGAIN* due to lack of good management inside KDE team. When a project like this with 300 developers around the world gets delayed and dishonours the original schedule, it is proven that Open Source congregations sometimes are not as efficient as real Corporations. KDE this time had a BAD SCHEDULE management and other idiotic steps.
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Beta 2
by cbcbcb on Tuesday 12/Feb/2002, @14:11
Can any mailing-list surfers say how things look for the beta 2 release? Is there a scheduled date?
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