Apple Developer System Status

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by kroger • 13 years ago

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kroger• 13 years ago

Apple created a status page to show the recovery progress.

jstsch• 13 years ago

Ughhh. Just noticed that I can't install the XCode Command Line Tools because the dev center is down... no stdio.h on my system. What is this, the dark ages!? :)

nonchalance• 13 years ago

temporary workaround: https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

recuter• 13 years ago

I seem to remember you could just Brew Install this and in fact that's what prompted Apple to provide an official standalone gcc de-bundled from XCode.

PedroBatista• 13 years ago

Unfortunately, it seems to be the future.

Just like everything, the price of having an all knowing central authority must be paid somewhere sometime.

briandear3• 13 years ago

This has nothing to do with an "all knowing central authority." This only affects people selling or developing using Apple's tools or distibution. Turning this into George Orwell borders on ridiculous. When AWS goes down, which is far more frequent than the Apple Dev center, are you still making tin foil hat assumptions, despite the fact that AWS outages affect a significant portion of the web, while the dev center means that we can't download a particular tool to build an App that obstensibly makes us money. If the freeway gets shut down because of an accident, I don't think we equate that with a totalitarian plot.

If I subscribed to Art Bell/Coast to Coast theories of the world, I'd be far more concerned about Google (and Facebook) than Apple. Google's product is you, sold to advertisers. Apple's product is primarily hardware. Apple has no financial incentive to know everything about you because that data doesn't really help them sell more stuff, if it does, it's marginal. While with Google, the more they know, the more they can then sell that information in the form of targeted advertising. Remember, Google is the one that wants(ed) to store health records. They store every single search query, indexed by IP, and if you're logged into to Gmail, to your name and every email you've ever sent. I don't hate Google or Apple, but to bring up some dystopian future because a dev center is down?

AsymetricCom2• 13 years ago

You agreed to this...

You know there's a well known and simple solution...

YOu could always...

You know what, I know you know better, but perhaps you'd be interested in forfeiting your rights for a bit of convenience? Great!

briandear3• 13 years ago

I love pseudo-haikus wrapped in dystopian drama.

sambeau• 13 years ago

You can. I've just done it without hitch.

bluedino• 13 years ago

I installed them yesterday just fine on a new machine. Weird.

teuobk• 13 years ago

I successfully installed the XCode command line tools on a new machine yesterday via the Preferences dialog box in XCode. The web installation route is definitely unavailable, but the Preferences route appears to continue to work.

jrochkind13• 13 years ago

If you don't yet have XCode though... out of luck? Man, I'm glad I bought and setup my new mac two weeks ago, and not one week ago.

reggplant• 13 years ago

Here is a copy of the email I received:

We apologize for the significant inconvenience caused by our developer website downtime. We've been working around the clock to overhaul our developer systems, update our server software, and rebuild our entire database. While we complete the work to bring our systems back online, we want to share the latest with you.

We plan to roll out our updated systems, starting with Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, Apple Developer Forums, Bug Reporter, pre-release developer libraries, and videos first. Next, we will restore software downloads, so that the latest betas of iOS 7, Xcode 5, and OS X Mavericks will once again be available to program members. We'll then bring the remaining systems online. To keep you up to date on our progress, we've created a status page to display the availability of our systems.

If your program membership is set to expire during this period, it will be extended and your app will remain on the App Store. If you have any other concerns about your account, please contact us.

Thank you for your continued patience.

1qaz2wsx3edc• 13 years ago

What's interesting about this rebuild is it tell us Apple tightly couples it's services.

I would except at Apple's scale they would have followed a Service Oriented Architecture. This doesn't seem to be the case at all.

And whatever happened to static hosting for videos/downloads.

ashishgandhi• 13 years ago

As of now right now (~1374712460) there are two systems that are online: iTunes Connect and Bug Reporter. And both seem to use the cannot-be-killed* WebObjects. You can clearly see that in the URLs as they mention "WebObjects" and end in ".woa" (assuming it means Web Objects Application).

*I've no idea what WebObjects are but I've heard people poke fun at their mention. Would be interesting if someone had more details to share.

Side Note: If you are looking to install Command Line Tools and seem to be unable to install Xcode from the App Store. You can go to Xcode > Preference and install it. Screen shot from a couple of minutes ago: http://i.imgur.com/KEhjkE3.png

philipbroadway• 13 years ago

Glad that they have this page now

dan1234• 13 years ago

Still no timescale for getting anything back up…

navs• 13 years ago

Better than nothing and that's what we had before...nothing.

jeffgreco• 13 years ago

Does anyone know when the current iOS beta expires? If they don't get it together by then, going to be a lot of sad eager adopters...

cmelbye• 13 years ago

A month from now, or so.

plorkyeran2• 13 years ago

The OTA update to beta 3 from previous betas still works, so pushing beta 4 via that probably wouldn't be an issue.

RKearney2• 13 years ago

But you can downgrade an iOS 7 device to iOS 6 using iTunes, so I even if iOS 7 did expire, it's not the end of the world.

LokiSnake• 13 years ago

Also, developers are told that they should not install iOS 7 on a mission critical device, and should only use it on a development device.

drewying• 13 years ago

I see iTunes Connect is still up. Does that mean that apps can still be submitted, assuming you all ready have the needed provisioning and certs?

yohann305• 13 years ago

Yes, I updated an app today and submitted it without any issue.

coldcode2• 13 years ago

IC is a much older application. I wish they would rewrite it though because it sucks bigtime.

morkfromork• 13 years ago

I submitted an app 1 week ago. This morning a received an e-mail stating the approval process is delayed. No other details.

janardanyri• 13 years ago

Well, the Bug Reporter is now online; that's one system restored, 13 to go. At least they're making progress.

https://bugreport.apple.com/

briandear3• 13 years ago

we should file a bug report that the dev center is down. That would be metafun.

EDIT: (I forgot to use the <sarc> tag.) Apologies all.

Watabou• 13 years ago

No. They're already busy. Let's not bother them.

atomicbird• 13 years ago

Bug reporter has never been offline through the recent outage. That's not progress, that's just things not getting even worse.

kmf• 13 years ago

I created a Ruby gem/command line tool that pulls the ADC status page and returns a pretty output:

https://github.com/imkmf/adc

grey-area3• 13 years ago

This is getting really frustrating - I'm waiting for several clients now in order to update profiles with new device info, and can't do so because the Apple service is offline, so no new betas for those clients. Most of their online services are not critical - things like online documentation and forums are really unimportant to me as a developer (that's what SO is for), but certification and adding device ids has the potential to sabotage a lot of their developers' schedules if this lasts much longer.

An outage of a few days is understandable to me if they're trying to do a security audit and update their systems, but an outage of a week?

For a large company like this with huge resources that just smacks of incompetence. They should be able to reproduce their systems on completely new hardware and up to date system software and frameworks within a day, surely? Does anyone know or care to speculate as to why this might take them so long?

revicon• 13 years ago

I'm guessing they're doing a re-write.

grey-area3• 13 years ago

That would be truly insane, I refuse to believe that's the case!

My best hypothesis is that they've upgraded all their software/frameworks which haven't been updated in 6 months, and have found a boatload of bugs related to running the old code on the updated software. I can't think why else they'd be doing that would take so long, and I sincerely hope there is no significant rewriting going on.

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