On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:54 PM, John Arbash Meinel <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 4/4/2011 6:49 AM, Robert Collins wrote: >> We've merged rev 10381 (the highest qa'd revision) of db-stable to >> devel and its wending its way through buildbot now. >> >> There were two revisions - a publisher change and comment hiding for >> questions - that were in db-stable but not qa'd. They have *not* been >> included. >> >> However, as neither contain DB changes, they can both be landed again >> on devel once we qa past the db-stable merge; and then qa'd etc and >> deployed subsequent to the complete downtime deploy. >> >> As part of making the downtime more reliable we're going to make the >> db downtime be precisely that: we'll deploy the db changing revision >> *only* during the downtime window, and do a regular nodowntime deploy >> subsequent to that. If you are changing a service which isn't part of >> the nodowntime set, it either needs to go only through db-devel, or >> organise a *partial downtime* window for it via mrevell. My strong >> preference is *partial downtime* because the DB downtime deploys are >> the single most risky event we have: making that go really well is >> crucial for decreasing the duration of complete downtime. >> >> Cheers, >> Rob >> >> https://dev.launchpad.net/Downtime for the definitions of complete and >> partial downtime. > > Should it still say that we only do scheduled complete downtime once a > month? I know you scheduled downtime just a bit ago, but I don't know > whether that was partial or complete.
We have this monthly scheduled complete downtime coming up on Wednesday; we had partial downtime today to replace the old zope FTP service for uploads of source packages with the shiny new twisted service. [yes, once a month complete scheduled downtime is correct for now] -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

