Launchpad downtime later this week

[Martin Pool]

There will be some planned downtime on Launchpad later this week to
upgrade the servers.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christian Robottom Reis <kiko at canonical.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:51 AM


Hi there. Maybe the last announcement of today! I've confirmed with all
parties involved the times for the different Hardy upgrades that will
affect us. The main change is moving Soyuz upgrades one week forwards,
and including here information on vostok and macquarie.

They are as follows:

    1. Thursday or Friday, June 18 or 19
       Non-user-visible
       Upgrade of macquarie

        Currently macquarie runs our librarian Apache front-end, and
        that's going to be moved across to vanadium -- James and Herb
        will do that work first.

        macquarie also runs the authserver, but there's a plan to do
        this transparently via a DNS switcheroo to a backup machine
        during the upgrade. Nothing should be affected.

    2. Next Tuesday, June 17, 22:00 UTC
       User-visible, 5h upgrade window
       Upgrade of our Apache front-end, script runner and the production
       Librarian
        (vanadium, forster, mizuho)

        This implies downtime for pretty much everything, because of the
        Librarian. Total ETA is again 5 hours.

    3. Next Wednesday, June 18, 22:00 UTC
       User-visible, 2h upgrade window
       Upgrade of vostok, our codehosting server.

        Loggerhead, branch pushing and pulling operations for
        Launchpad-hosted code won't work during this upgrade.

    4. Next Thursday, June 19, 22:00 UTC
       User-visible, 5h upgrade window
       Upgrade of soyuz-related servers
        (cesium, drescher, germanium)

        This implies downtime for the distribution team and PPAs -- no
        source package uploads, builds, or publishing of changes to
        archive.ubuntu.com or PPA archives.


-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>