Scraper Stalls

1 · · June 3, 2011, 7 a.m.
Observant vim-scripts users noticed that recently the scraper was stalled for 3 weeks. The problems that caused this have been fixed and the scraper is rolling again. While a three week outage is never good, the occasional outage is expected and even a sign of health. If you're interested, here's a bit more about why the scraper stalls. Whence Stalls The scraper watches vim.org's RSS feed, processes the updated scripts, and goes back to sleep. If there's a problem, it bails out and refuses to p...