Monday 3 February 2020

No more downtime window required

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:51:49AM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 05:36:36PM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> > which I'm currently expecting to be in the week of 2020-01-27. I will
> > follow up with the exact day closer to the time.
>
> I was travelling last week and I'm afraid I didn't get enough time to
> line up all of the preparation work required for this. I'm now aiming to
> do this next Friday, 2020-02-07.

Working with Canonical's IS team we've realised / figured out that it'd
be both possible and better to *re-deploy* autopkgtest into a new space,
get it fully working and then cut DNS names etc. over before destroying
the old deployment. This means that there's no need for a protracted
period of downtime any more.

I'll be stopping proposed-migration for a brief period while we are
actually modifying the DNS entries, so that requests stop going to the
old environment. But this will not cause very much disruption, so
there's no need for an explicit downtime window any more. When the time
comes I'll be announcing progress on #ubuntu-release.

Cheers,

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Iain Lane [ iain@orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer [ laney@debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer [ laney@ubuntu.com ]