central.scipy.org and scipy-central.org down

[basnijholt]

I can't reach the website in any way except by using Google's cashed websites.

central.scipy.org gives me:

and scipy-central.org is just completely unreachable.

It has been like this for at least a few weeks now.

[rgommers]

@ksurya @pv do you agree it's time to decommision the site and remove links to it where we still have them? I think it was a good effort, but uptake was always limited and it won't be improving anymore.

[ksurya]

About this 404

I am aware of this issue. The production server currently runs on uWSGI 2.0.15 and I guess it has incompatibility issues with OpenSSL or Psycopg2. I've temporarily shut the server down.

The below is the traceback from logs:

No application detected yet
2017-09-09T14:04:40.435-04:00Error: Deployment timed out after 180s.
2017-09-09T14:04:40.435-04:00Deploy failed
2017-09-09T14:04:44.281-04:00Sat Sep 9 14:04:43 2017 - SIGPIPE: writing to a closed pipe/socket/fd (probably the client disconnected) on request / (ip 127.0.0.1) !!!
2017-09-09T14:04:44.282-04:00write error
2017-09-09T14:04:44.282-04:00:
2017-09-09T14:04:44.282-04:00IOError
2017-09-09T14:04:44.282-04:00Sat Sep 9 14:04:43 2017 - uwsgi_response_write_body_do(): Broken pipe [core/writer.c line 331] during GET / (127.0.0.1)

I have observed this issue before and I was able to fix it by setting pyOpenSSL version to 16.2.0. Apparently, its not working now!

About decommission
It seems prudent to think about shutting down the project. Perhaps, upgrading the app with features that are more useful to the community or users could improve activity?

[rgommers]

Perhaps, upgrading the app with features that are more useful to the community or users could improve activity?

Possibly, but the time investment to benefit ratio doesn't look good. At the moment I'm not sure it's a good place to direct users to, they're better off with StackOverflow and gists. Activity on this project is so low that I don't think it's realistic to see the time investment happen anyway.

[pv]

The landscape is nowadays a bit different from what it was when the idea for this got started. I think at the moment people are mainly using stackoverflow, github, gists, etc. I think it will be unlikely the site is able to compete with those in a meaningful way --- IIRC, the activity was very low, ~1 new entry in the last year.

Currently, it is looking like we cannot spare time for minimal maintenance, ie. getting the site up again. If so, it's probably best to remove links to it, and concentrate the energy on doing other things.