Re: Buildfarm server move

On 01/18/2016 05:20 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> People,
>
> Apologies for the late notice.
>
> Tomorrow, January 18th, at 4.00 pm US East Coast time (UT - 5.0) we 
> will be moving the buildfarm server from its current home at 
> CommandPrompt, where we have been ever since we started, to a machine 
> that is part of the standard core infrastructure. In doing so we will 
> be moving to a) a more modern and supported PostgreSQL version, and b) 
> a machine with more disk space so that our current severe pace 
> shortage will be alleviated. In addition, the community would be much 
> better placed to maintain the buildfarm if either JD or I were to fall 
> under a bus.
>
> The outage is expected to last about 4 hours or less, and we will sent 
> out notifications when this is complete.
>
> Buildfarm owners who want to avoid getting reporting failures should 
> disable their animals during that time. We don't have an avalanche of 
> commits right now either, but it might also be nice if committers were 
> to refrain from adding changes in the hours leading up to this and 
> until we announce that we're back online, for the benefit of those 
> owners who don't see this message in time.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and understanding.
>
> And many thanks to CommandPrompt for their constant support over the 
> many years we've been in operation.
>
>


Yes, sorry about that. It will be on the 19th. Fat fingers strike again.

cheers

andrew