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Hi,

On the morning (UTC) of January 3rd we will performance general maintenance[0] on all servers. Services will be affected as follows:

Service | Expected impact --------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Login server: nightshade | See below. Login/web servers | Some software unavailable for < 30 minutes. All other services | No impact.

Start time: Monday, 3rd January, 12AM UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=1&y...

End time: Monday, 3rd JAnuary, 3AM UTC (estimated) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=1&y...

Details:

We will perform general software upgrades. A list of software to be upgraded can be found at: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Admin:Pending_maintenance_tasks Some software may be unavailable or function incorrectly during the upgrade process, which we estimate will take under 30 minutes.

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Python 2.6 (/usr/bin/python2.6, /opt/ts/python/2.6/bin/python) will be removed during the maintenance. This was announced in the previous maintenance and no problems have been reported with Python 2.7, which is currently the default Python.

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The default locale on the Solaris login servers will change to en_US.UTF-8. This was already the case for all services except "cron".

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We will reinstall nightshade, the Linux login server, as Solaris. This was announced in September and again in November. No major issues have been reported which would block the migration. For more information, see http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2010-September/000351.html and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2010-November/000369.html

- river.

[0] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Maintenance_schedule