pythonlabs.com website down -- 2.0c1 still available!

[Jim Fulton]

Thomas Weholt wrote:
> 
> Does this mean the problem was related to Zope ( since Digital Creations was
> in the picture )?

Not really. I got involved to help PythonLabs debug the problem.

> The main Zope homepage was also down for a long time some
> weeks ago. It doesn't exactly do a good job at marketing Zope as a viable
> platform. Could we get some info on how the problem occurred so we can avoid
> it?

The PythonLabs site application (as opposed to the Zope system code) 
used a Python method that had a logic error that could cause an 
infinite loop under some circumstances.

We sometimes use zope.org as a bit of petri dish. For example, 
during the time you refered to above, we used zope.org
to test (and, as it turned out, debug) a new release of ZEO.
Maybe we shouldn't use zope.org this way, but it sure is convenient
having a site that gets hit hard to try new software out on. :)

Jim

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