Hello, while the Gerrit switchover was completed successfully; we were made aware of an unrelated issue on fetching data from Git, and this is currently being investigated (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T417536).
Best regards, On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM Arnaud Bran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We will perform maintenance on Gerrit on Monday, Feb. 16, from 09:00 to > 10:00 UTC. During this window, we expect a ~30-minute write outage while we > switch over Gerrit's service from the current primary (gerrit1003) to the > spare host (gerrit2003). To make sure the downtime stays minimal, we’ll run > warmup transfers and the emergency local backup ahead of time. The web UI > downtime on the read-only primary instance has been fixed, so reviews and > code will be browsable during most of the switchover. > > As before, we’ll perform the switchover live with Release Engineering. > This operation will allow us to unblock a few things: > > - > > System daemon user: gerrit2 → gerrit (T338470) > - > > OS upgrade (T392464, T384595), Java (T392465) version update and > Gerrit (T379714, T392448) version update > > *Expected impact:* A ~30-minute read-only window; reads (browsing, > cloning, reviewing) should remain fine. Pushes, votes, comments, etc. will > be blocked during that period. We’ll post start/end updates during the > window. > > *Links:* > > - > > Documentation: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gerrit/Operations#Switch_over > - > > Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387833 > - > > Deployment Calendar: > > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20260216T0900 > > Best, > -- > *Arnaud Bran* (he/him) > Senior Site Reliability Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >
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