The Mer OBS is long overdue for an upgrade and thanks to Oleg porting the Mer mods forward this should happen during this week. There will be a number of short outages to the various OBS services as prep work happens. These will be announced on #mer.
I'll do my best to provide early announcements for any longer outages (with an email too). David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."