What's going on with proposed migration?

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 07:57:45PM -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Thursday, February 16 2023, Brian Murray wrote:
> 
> > First off I want to apologize for not sending this earlier. The Ubuntu
> > QA team was focused on restoring the service but could have been more
> > communicative regarding what was going on.
> >
> > In brief there was an outage with some underlying infrastructure
> > provided by Canonical IS which took us a little while to catch and then
> > a while longer to work around due to a multitude of failures. However,
> > the set of failures we encountered have exposed some issues with
> > the service running the autopkgtests which we plan to address in the
> > near future.
> 
> Thanks for your and the QA team's work on this, Brian.

Agreed, keeping infrastructure running happily makes all of our jobs
easier and more efficient.

> > If anybody is interested in the potentially boring nitty-gritty details
> > I'd be happy to send a follow up email.
> 
> I'm personally interested in the details, and I also think it's a good
> idea to leave a more detailed record for posterity.

Ditto, and I'd be keen to hear things us devs could do to help minimize
or avoid problems in the future.  E.g. things to avoid or check for when
writing autopkgtests?

Bryce