Friendly reminder that this is happening in about 2 hours! -Chad
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Chad Horohoe <choro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, > > So the time is upon us to finally upgrade Gerrit. I thank everyone in > advance for all of your patience > and good work testing things out for us. The plan is outlined in detail on > Phabricator[0], but I'll give > everyone the short version here. > > The downtime will be on Monday, July 25th from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC; that's > Sunday night for those > of us who are US-based. This time was picked based because it's one of our > lowest traffic times > on Gerrit. There's never a *good* time to bring it down, it's always being > used, but this looks like it'll > impact the fewest number of users. I do not anticipate the process > actually taking the full 3 hours, > but I'm giving us a lot of extra time just in case. > > Jaime will be on hand to assist with a final DB snapshot of the old > version and possible rollback, > and Daniel Z. is going to assist me with the puppet work. Most of this is > already prepared so the > amount of "change" to do the swap has been kept to a minimum. > > Gerrit is a critical service to all developers, so the plan includes a > generous provision to roll back > if things are not operating properly--I'd rather us be on the old version > that works on a Monday > morning than be stuck broken going into the work week. > > I'll be sure to send a last minute reminder Sunday night prior to taking > services offline. > > Thanks again! > > -Chad > > [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70271#2482308 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l