Reminder: this outage will happen today in about 90 minutes.
On 4/13/22 11:15 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
Next week (Tuesday, 2022-04-19 15:00 UTC) we will be
upgrading the
operating system that hosts the shared Toolsdb servers. This upgrade
may take an hour or more, during which time the databases will not be
available.
This outage will be VERY DISRUPTIVE to many toolforge tools, as all
database access will fail during the upgrade. Toolforge users may want
to disable tools before the outage and/or check in to verify proper
recovery after service is restored.
There is likely to be a similar (or longer) outage in subsequent weeks
as we also need to upgrade the database servers themselves. Toolsdb
has grown to an ungainly size and can't be easily handled using
standard rolling upgrade procedures; the WMCS team is in ongoing
discussions about long-term solutions for this issue. In the meantime
you can help us out by engaging in periodic cleanup of your database
usage and dumping or dropping data that's no longer of use.
-Andrew + the WMCS team