Poll: when to migrate code to the new server?

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Jan 21 16:03:19 EST 2014


On Tuesday 21 January 2014 21:51:58 Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014, 10:54:19 schrieb John Ralls:
> > On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:52 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The new-code server is just about ready for migration.  I've got
> > > most of the services already installed and tested, (although some
> > > less vital services have not been fully tested yet).
> > > 
> > > My main question is when to migrate?  One thing to keep in mind is
> > > that the new server will not support subversion (except in a
> > > read-only fashion so existing trac URLs will work).  This means
> > > that once we migrate the 2.4 series will be dead, unless we
> > > upgrade the build server to handle 2.4 from git.
> > > 
> > > Migration will require downtime, probably a good 4 hours (or more)
> > > in
> > > order to make sure data isn't changing as the migration occurs. 
> > > I've
> > > pre-copied most of the data already so subsequent rsyncs should be
> > > faster.  But then I'll also need to test everything to make sure
> > > it's
> > > working, and I'll have to migrate/upgrade mediawiki by hand.
> > > 
> > > So this is a long-winded way of asking when we think 2.4 will be
> > > completely done and when I should schedule the migration?  I know
> > > 2.6.1 is planned for this weekend, so I'm assuming it'll be at
> > > least the following week, so maybe the weekend of Feb 1-2?
> > 
> > As far as I’m concerned 2.4.15 was the last release. Feb 1-2 is fine
> > with me for conversion.
> 
> Same here: Conversion is good. Feb 1-2 is good. Feel free to go ahead
> :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Christian

Yep, 1-2 feb is good.

Geert


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