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Apple Dev Center outage

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Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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The entire Apple dev center is down. That makes it impossible to download the iOS or Mac SDKs, including the iOS 7 beta. It's also not possible to provision new devices or update expired certificates. The developer forums are down too, which is somewhat frustrating since that's the only place we can discuss the still-under-NDA iOS 7. iTunes connect appears to be up. Apologies for those who posted this earlier. The he…

No forum means no complaints which future developers can look back on...

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#12
post #4

The entire Apple dev center is down. That makes it impossible to download the iOS or Mac SDKs, including the iOS 7 beta. It's also not possible to provision new devices or update expired certificates. The developer forums are down too, which is somewhat frustrating since that's the only place we can discuss the still-under-NDA iOS 7. iTunes connect appears to be up. Apologies for those who posted this earlier. The he…

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Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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I've had an active developer program account since 2008. While various tools have gone offline now and then, and there are planned shutdowns around the holidays and during keynotes, this incident seems unique. Wonder what's going on over there. This outage makes the provisioning portal inaccessible. That could mean very real work disruptions, since no new code signing credentials can be made.

I've managed to successfully provision new devices and run dev apps on them yesterday using xcode's organizer, so at least there's that.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Is it still possible to provision devices through Xcode while it's down? The message they've went with is very strange: "This site is undergoing maintenance for an extended period today." Normally they give a few weeks warning for maintenance.

I think so, yes. I provisioned a few devices yesterday through xcode during the outage and it updated my provisioning profiles successfully.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Nothing like discovering your recently released app crashes on iOS 7 and being unable to download the SDK to find out why, or fix it.

Is that really so urgent? The majority of the people using iOS 7 are developers, understand apps will be buggy under it and wouldn't leave a bad review. I'm sure an extra few hours wait won't make too much difference :)

I don't know about that. There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones. I'd wager they outnumber legitimate developers using the beta by a hefty margin. And a lot of them don't understand the implications of doing this.

Stories of unjustified bad reviews being left by users like these due to poor behavior on iOS 7 are really common in the community.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Is it still possible to provision devices through Xcode while it's down? The message they've went with is very strange: "This site is undergoing maintenance for an extended period today." Normally they give a few weeks warning for maintenance.

If it was planned maintenance, it probably would have happened before WWDC and the iOS 7 betas.

Why? They do maintenance at different points throughout the year.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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I've had an active developer program account since 2008. While various tools have gone offline now and then, and there are planned shutdowns around the holidays and during keynotes, this incident seems unique. Wonder what's going on over there. This outage makes the provisioning portal inaccessible. That could mean very real work disruptions, since no new code signing credentials can be made.

I've managed to successfully provision new devices and run dev apps on them yesterday using xcode's organizer, so at least there's that.

Did you need to do anything special? Keeps timing out when I try to use it.
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