Re: Some software became inaccessible

[Timo Korhonen via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hello all,

Just an update to this issue. Sorry about the inconvenience that this has caused, and especially the delay in communication!

Like Anders wrote, our IT had to shut down the external access to our Gitlab because of recurring DDoS attacks.  This seems to become a permanent situation, so we are setting up mirroring on Github. We try to speed this up, but it will inevitably take some planning. We will come back with more details as soon as we have a plan. If there are urgent issues please let us know and we try to figure out a way to help.

Best regards,

Timo (ESS)

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Anders Lindh Olsson via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Friday, 5 June 2026 at 12:57
To: Jörn Dreyer <j.dreyer at hzdr.de>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Some software became inaccessible

Hi Jörn,

Our IT department has shut down all remote access to our gitlab server, affecting not only gitlab but also pages and container registry. We are (eagerly) awaiting further information from them.

FWIW it is incorrect that we keep most of our software on GitHub - we probably have 95% of it on our internal GitLab instance.

Cheers
A

> On 5 Jun 2026, at 10:52, Jörn Dreyer via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> today I noticed that some software ecosystem around EPICS (E3 from ESS)  that I used for one of my projects an plan to use in an upcoming facility project, became inaccessible.
>
> The link on the EPICS Extensions web site became stale for it too. ESS has moved most of there software to github.com, but note E3 and all of its documentation.
> I was running my ansible playbook to reinstall an IOC on an machine, when I noticed that the ess gitlab server is not accessible anymore.
> Fortunately I have a local copy of the e3-build-tools (the python version) but not off the wrappers. Does anybody know if they are available on github or will become available soon?
>
> Regards
>
> Jörn Dreyer
> <Jörn Dreyer.vcf>