Hello,
to anyone who is a client of stream.wikimedia.org (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream), so people who run tools relying on the RC stream.
In about 48 hours, on February 3rd at 20:00 UTC, we will have to reboot the backend servers of the stream.wm.org service, rcs1001 and 1002.
This service is loadbalanced and we will only reboot the 2 servers one at a time, so there should be no service downtime.
But nevertheless your clients will get disconnected and may need your intervention to reconnect.
Please be prepared to do so if your client will not automatically reconnect.
I will send another mail once this has happened.
Best regards,
Daniel