Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Load Balancer Rebuilds
July 8th 18:00 UTC (11:00 PDT)
Production outage: YES
Change affects: www.drupal.org
To finish our load balancer rebuilds, we are moving traffic from our old load balancer to our new load balancer. During this process, there may be a five minute period of brief instability.
Related issues:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2087331
https://www.drupal.org/node/2297537
Contact: Rudy Grigar, Drupal Association Infrastructure Manager (basic` on IRC) https://www.drupal.org/u/basic
Backout plan: The switchover to our new load balancer may result in brief instability. If there is prolonged instability after the switch we are prepared to roll back to our old load balancer. Impact that could cause backout will be limited to services provided by the Drupal.org infrastructure.
Tuesday, 8 July, and/or Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Semantic Versioning Deployments
Times vary (see @drupal_infra for specific times as changes times are finalized)
Production outage: NO
Change affects: www.drupal.org
This change needs to be coordinated with the Drupal core maintainers. Drupal Core will branch 8.0.x from 8.x. The next tagged core release will be 8.0.0-{alpha|beta}N. A new release node will be made for the new dev branch. Issues, testbots, and other integrations will be switched to 8.0.x.
Related issues:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2170443
https://www.drupal.org/node/2296183
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:
In the event the switchover has unforeseen impact for Drupal.org, we will keep using 8.x. We are not prepared to backout if third-party services outside of our control are affected (i.e. Dreditor, Drupal Office Hours, SimplyTest.me, etc.) The change is being made in advance of Druapl 8.0.0-beta1 for these systems to have time to retool or upgrade.
Note
This is our first change notification using the process outlined in https://www.drupal.org/news/change-notifications-drupalorg. We will be posting a planned changes notification each Thursday for the following week's worth of changes to Drupal.org sites and infrastructure.
Change notification messages will also be posted to ‘News and announcements’ forum on Drupal.org and linked from a change announcement posted to our @drupal_infra Twitter account.
Additionally, this list may be used to announce emergency changes to the Drupal.org environment.
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Anyone interested in knowning about planned changes to the Drupal.org enviornment may subscribe. To post to the list, contact a member of the Drupal Association technology team (tvn, basic, drumm and joshuami are good starting points).
