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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: zapta on March 02, 2014, 10:14:20 pm

Title: Is Kicad down?
Post by: zapta on March 02, 2014, 10:14:20 pm

The second day I am trying to access it and am getting an error.

http://www.kicad-pcb.org/ (http://www.kicad-pcb.org/)

Is this the correct URL? I would like to try KiCad.

Title: Re: Is Kicad down?
Post by: HackedFridgeMagnet on March 02, 2014, 10:27:43 pm

Seems to be down.

502 Bad gateway

Title: Re: Is Kicad down?
Post by: firewalker on March 03, 2014, 07:41:34 am

There is a discussion on their mailing list for the issue.

Alexander.

Title: Re: Is Kicad down?
Post by: zapta on March 04, 2014, 04:27:23 pm

According to the mailing list, it's down more than a week. That's lame. These days you can get decent web hosting for almost nothing. It doesn't reflect well on this project.

Title: Re: Is Kicad down?
Post by: Rigby on March 04, 2014, 04:51:27 pm

I doubt it's the hosting company, it is much more likely a sysadmin with the project that's on vacation or something silly like that.

I asked about it on twitter.  I find it highly unlikely that they don't already know, but I'll see if I can post an update here when I have one.

Title: Re: Is Kicad down?
Post by: zapta on March 05, 2014, 01:32:32 pm

It's up now by I couldn't find a package for Mac OSX.

Title: Re: Is Kicad down?
Post by: apelly on March 10, 2014, 11:30:20 pm

The website is a recurring issue. There has been discussion about mitigation on the dev mailing list.

zapta, this might help: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/view/head:/INSTALL.txt

Also, https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kicad-users/info