I have forwarded this to the Outages mailing list, so that people who want to know/get complaints about such things have advance warning.
Cheers, -- jra ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ct Woo" <[email protected]> > To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]>, "Development and > Operations Engineers" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:07:15 PM > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – > target date is week of 1/22/13 > All, > > The Migration team is in the last lap on completing the remaining > tasks to > ready our software stack and Ashburn infrastructure for the big > switchover > day. > > Per my last > update,<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063668.html> > with the Fundraising activity behind us now, the team has scheduled > the *week > of 22nd January*, 2013 to perform the switchover. We are going to > block a > 8-hour migration window on the *22nd, 23rd and 24**th*. During those > periods, *17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours (9am to 5pm PST*), there will > be > intermittent blackouts and they will be treated as 'planned' outages. > You > can follow the migration on irc.freenode.org in the > #wikimedia-operations > channel. > > The team is putting the finishing touches to the last few tasks and we > will > make the final Go/No decision on 18th Jan, 2013. An update will send > out > then. For those interested in tracking the progress, the meeting notes > are > captured on this wikitech > page<http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switchover> > . > > *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that > week, > allowing only emergency and critical ones only.* > > Thanks. > > CT Woo > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
