Dear OpenAFS developers: For the last five years Stanford University has graciously provided and maintained the machine named openafs.stanford.edu which hosts the OpenAFS Gerrit review service, Git source code repository, and OpenAFS Jabber service. Due to the age of the machine and the end of life of the operating system version which it runs it is time for a replacement. I am happy to announce that MIT has agreed to provide and maintain a new host machine on behalf of the OpenAFS community. We wish to thank Stanford University and its staff for all they have done on behalf of OpenAFS.
In order to perform the migration the OpenAFS Gerrit, Git and Jabber services are going to be turned off on Monday April 28th at 10am UTC. The Buildbot server will be shutdown the night before to ensure that all is quiet before Gerrit is turned off. Over the course of the next two days the git repository and the gerrit database will be cloned, DNS records will be updated, and the new service instances will be installed, configured, and tested. The existing Jabber service instance is not going to be migrated but will be replaced by a new Jabber server product. The existing Jabber server software was configured to be open permitting anonymous individuals to create @openafs.org Jabber IDs and to create arbitrary conference rooms. These capabilities were locked down several months ago as a security precaution. When the new Jabber server is deployed the existing conference rooms will be recreated but existing @openafs.org Jabber accounts will not be migrated. Further details on how to access the new Jabber service will be posted when it is brought online. All Jabber logs will be preserved. Thanks to Garry Zacheiss and Ben Kaduk at MIT for the provision of the new host. Thanks to Simon Wilkinson and Daria Brashear for managing the migration. Jeffrey Altman OpenAFS Gatekeeper
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