MDC glitches

[Sheppy]

You may have noticed that we're having some strange glitches on the
Mozilla Developer Center, with error messages cropping up in the
middle of articles where templates are used sometimes.

For some reason, a query that happens periodically is causing our
MySQL server to crash. This is happening several times a day, and when
it happens, things don't always automatically start back up correctly,
leaving the wiki in an uncertain state.

It appears that this is being caused by a bug in MySQL that we're
running into. I've contacted folks at MindTouch to see if they can
work around it, and our IT wizards are looking at it from the MySQL
side of things, to see if they can figure out what can be done on that
side.

I'll post again when I have more information. I just wanted folks to
be aware that we know about this problem and are actively working on
fixing it.

Eric Shepherd
Developer Documentation Lead
Mozilla Corporation

[Natch]

Not sure if this is directly related, but there are a couple of
Templates that are disfunctional on devmo, the two that I've found
are:

Template.interface makes a link to devmo/iFaceName when it should
really be devmo/en/iFaceName.

Template.Cssxref adds a colon to all pseudo elements, so that
Template.Cssxref(":-moz-locale-dir(rtl)") actually redirects to /../::-
moz-locale-dir(rtl)

[Sheppy]

Neither of these are related. I've just now fixed the Interface
template; good catch! The latter was revised the other day to be
cleaner, but the revision broke things a little bit, so I've reverted
to the old version for now. We'll try the cleanup again later after we
fix some other problems we've been having.

Eric Shepherd
Developer Documentation Lead
Mozilla Corporation

http://www.bitstampede.com/

[Sheppy]

Quick note with additional information: I'm aware there are still
templates that are not working correctly. Something has changed in
terms of configuration, or in terms of processes not running that
should be, or something along those lines. I'm investigating with the
help of engineers at MindTouch. My best guess off the top of my head
is some process that should be running is not, but I hesitate to poke
at things too much until we have a better understanding of what's
wrong.

I'll post a follow-up once I have more information.