[PW] Status Announcement

[John Franklin]

A few weeks ago, I announced that there might be some problems  
because one of the two hosting companies which is used by Project  
Wombat was going to make some major changes, but that this would  
occur no earlier than the 17th of July. Furthermore, I said I would  
send a message when they were done.

Well, it never happened. Or rather, they tried, and everything  
stopped working right away so they never actually completed the  
transition.

A bunch of the URLs on the website failed testing because they are  
built by server-side includes. The SSI puts together "http://" +  
server name + rest of the link. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell,  
the testing program parsed the links before executing SSI, so that it  
ended up looking for "http://QAservername/file" when it should have  
looked for "http://QAservername/internal_redirecting_path/file".

As a result, the status page has read:

> Status: In QA
> Attempt scheduled for 7/17/2006 [ More ]
> Attempt finished on 7/17/2006 at 5:15 AM
> We attempted to complete the migration of your site and encountered  
> a quality issue. Our migration team is currently reviewing your  
> site to attempt to correct the problem. If we are able to do so, we  
> will complete your migration and notify you when it is complete.

Since the 17th. I tried going in and telling it to ignore the  
problems (which were ALL of this type) but nothing happened, which is  
hardly surprising because now that I read the fine print, once you  
touch the controls they assume you want manual control and stop doing  
anything more.

In a way, that's fine, since it means the whole thing will happen  
today (Saturday). In a way, though, that's also bad, because it means  
that I won't be around for about 12 hours, because I'm in the  
morning, I'll be off to do some volunteer work.

The point I am trying to make: the list may be a bit wonky this  
weekend. I will attempt to make sure everything is working by Monday,  
though. (No guarantees, though -- this involves DNS swapping.)

-John Franklin