Hi,
Gerrit needs to be restarted today at 18 UTC for a Java security update.
This will only take a brief amount of time (up to a few minutes), but it's
disruptive to ongoing comments/actions, so please refrain from using it
around that time.
I'll send a note to #wikimedia-operations once the
Hello everyone,
there will be a leap second on June 30th 23:59:60 UTC (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second) The adjustment of the leap
second is normally handled as part of the NTP time synchonisation protocol
(which all our hosts run): On the day of a leap second, NTP notifies the
Linux
Hi,
for a long time https://ganglia.wikimedia.org has been carrying a note
that Ganglia is deprecated in favour of Grafana
(https://grafana.wikimedia.org).
On next Monday (4th of September) we'll take that deprecation one step
further and move Ganglia behind authentication (the remaining use
Hi,
kraz, the server running irc.wikimedia.org, will be rebooted next Monday
during the CEST morning. In all previous reboots we found most
clients/tools to reconnect automatically, but if that's not case for
something you care about, please keep an eye on it (and ideally fix it to
reconnect
Hi,
the DNS name for irc.wikimedia.org [1] will be redirected to a new
instance (irc2001.wikimedia.org) tomorrow (European) morning. This new
instance is running a more recent OS (Debian 10/Buster).
Mediawiki changes are currently broadcasted to both the old server
(kraz.wikimedia.org) and the
