8/18/08 10PM - Paul Frields: - (Newest Post):

Our team has been hard at work for several days now, restoring services
in the Fedora infrastructure. We started with what we identified as
Fedora's "critical path," those systems required to restore minimum
daily operation. That work to be completely finished by the end of the
day. We then move on to our other value services to complete them as
soon as possible.

Please give the infrastructure team the time they need to do this
demanding work. They have been doing a spectacular job and deserve the
absolute highest credit.

The systems that are now back online and usable include the following:
* Puppet, Xen and FAS hosts
* app1, app3, and app4
* database and proxy servers
* the majority of the Xen guest machines
* serverbeach5, serverbeach4
* Fedora Hosted**

The systems that should be available very soon:
* asterisk1 and collab1
* cvs1
* builders, x86 and ppc
* Fedora People

We know the community is awaiting more detail on the past week's
activities and their causes. We're preparing a timeline and details and
will make them available in the near future. We appreciate the
community's patience, and will continue to post updates to the
fedora-announce-list as soon as possible.


EDIT: 8/17/08 4:20pm - YUM's BACK ONLINE (No idea about the rest)


This was posted by Paul Fields on 8/14:

Originally Posted by Paul W. Frields
The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in
the infrastructure systems. That process may result in service outages,
for which we apologize in advance. We're still assessing the end-user
impact of the situation, but as a precaution, we recommend you not
download or update any additional packages on your Fedora systems.

We'll share updates as we develop more information. Those updates will
be published here on the public fedora-announce-list:
http(s)://redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
(Edit: fool url won't work properly as a link - put it in a browser and remove the parentheses from around the "s")

Thanks for your patience as we continue working on this.

and on 8/16, this was a followup:

The Fedora Infrastructure team continues to work on the issues we
discovered earlier this week. Right now, we're getting the account
system restored to service, along with some of the application servers.
We're also taking advantage of the outages to upgrade a few systems at
the same time.

Some services such as the Account System and the wiki should return to
normal over the weekend, but we expect outages to continue for some
other systems. Please be patient as we continue to work the problem.