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Thursday, 24 July 2014

security.drupal.org Drupal 7 upgrade deployment

18:00 UTC (11:00am PDT)
Production outage: YES
Change affects: security.drupal.org
We will be updating s.d.o and all custom modules to Drupal 7. This will give us better automation of tickets and SA’s. We will be introducing a new criticality scale, and will also have the ability to automatically add maintainers to issues.
Contact: For security issues during the outage, please email security@drupal.org
Michael Hess, Drupal Security Team Lead (mlhess on IRC) https://www.drupal.org/u/mlhess
Neil Drumm, Drupal Association Lead Architect (drumm on IRC) https://www.drupal.org/u/drumm
Rudy Grigar, Drupal Association Infrastructure Manager (basic` on IRC) https://www.drupal.org/u/basic
Backout plan: Although the process has been tested, there is potential for the upgrade to fail. To mitigate this risk the deployment can be delayed and rescheduled. We will be able to roll back to Drupal 6 via database/code backups.

Implement render_cache module for comments

21:00 UTC (2:00pm PDT)
Production outage: NO
Change affects: www.drupal.org
Add the render_cache module to www.drupal.org to improve performance of loading comments. Initial testing shows roughly a 30% speed improvement.
Related issues:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2299547
Contact:Neil Drumm, Drupal Association Lead Architect (drumm on IRC) https://www.drupal.org/u/drumm
Rudy Grigar, Drupal Association Infrastructure Manager (basic` on IRC) https://www.drupal.org/u/basic
Backout plan:
We will roll back the deployment if we encounter any issues.

Previous week changes

There were no scheduled changes taking place last week. Unscheduled, we updated *.drupal.org sites for SA-CORE-2014-003.