A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for Wednesday, 2018-10-31 from 12:00 to 13:00 CDT. GitLab services provided by gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 13:00 CDT, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue inconvenience please let us …

What we’re doing: Changing mailman configs to use a "From:" header of the listname rather than the sender. This change will happen on all mailing lists hosted by CELS Systems. We will also make that setting the default for any new list created. When we are doing it: Monday, October 29, between 3 and 5 …

Hey, everybody! So you’ve seen a couple of announcements about the lab’s setting “DMARC” policy on outgoing mail. If you’re a mail wonk, you get it. If you’re not, and I’m sure most of you aren’t, I’m going to explain a few things about it and what it means to you. I’m really trying to …

Hi, everyone! First of all, if you currently use Dash (https://dash.anl.gov) to access Dayforce and are happy with that, just stop reading. There’s nothing of interest to you here and you’re using the approved and supported method for accessing Dayforce. Okay, if you’re still reading, perhaps you don’t like using Dash for that, or you …

Hi, everyone. From time to time, you may receive an e-mail from the lab’s vulnerability scanner telling you about a vulnerability on your laptop.  These are important, and you should contact us ([email protected]) with any questions you might have about them.  But I want to focus on a very specific one I’m seeing a lot …

Hi, everybody. Due to staffing changes and space constraints, we’re going to be making some changes to the concept of the “Help Desk” for CELS. First up, we need to convert the existing location into a regular office. That’s happening this afternoon (September 17). With the loss of that location as a help desk, I’d …

Maintenance of our GitLab services has been completed. Please let us know if you encounter any issues by emailing [email protected] Merge request code review should be working properly again. – CELS Systems

Beginning work to update our GitLab services at https://gitlab.cels.anl.gov and https://xgitlab.cels.anl.gov Services will be disrupted during this maintenance window. Service is expected to be restored by 18:00 CDT and may be available sooner than that. We will send a followup email upon completion of the work. – CELS Systems

In order to resolve the issue with merge requests on GitLab we will be updating to a later release starting today (2018-09-10) at 17:00 CDT. Maintenance is scheduled for 17:00 to 18:00, and service may be restored sooner than that. – CELS Systems

We have been notified of an issue affecting the CELS GitLab instances that impacts the ability to view changes when reviewing a merge request. We have opened an issue with the gitlab-ce project, and others have reported the same issue. We are hopeful that we will be able to update to a later release where …