Re: Upcoming web platform upgrade

Is there a time you plan on starting, and/or will you send follow up
emails when you start and when you think you are done?

Robert Treat
play: xzilla.net
work: omniti.com
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> Hi!
> The web and sysadmin team have tentatively scheduled an upgrade of the
> www.postgresql.org platform for this sunday, Nov 27th.
> This change includes a complete rewrite of the underlying technology behind
> the site, with the intention to make it more flexible to work with, and to
> provide better services to users. It does not change the layout of the site
> in any way.
> The most visible things to users at this point is going to be that those who
> submit news and events are now able to make smaller modifications to them
> after they are submitted, and will be able to view which of their events are
> in the pending moderation queue and such things. Submitted texts will also
> no longer require/support HTML markup, but instead we will use a simple
> markdown parser.
> While we have done a fairly large amount of testing on the site, there are
> likely to be a number of issues - since we simply don't have enough
> resources to test everything. Because of this, please expect some hiccups at
> the beginning of next week - and thanks for helping us test it :-) If there
> are major issues, we will obviously roll back.
> There are also a few things that need to be manually adjusted after the
> migration, such as dealing with companies that are currently in our database
> under several different names with just slightly different spelling. This
> process is probably going to take a few days - please have patience.
> Any content (news, events, services etc) that is submitted to the current
> site before the migration will be automatically migrated to the new one.
> Anyway - there's your heads-up. If you notice issues after the migration,
> you can find the web team hanging out in #postgresql on freenode - please
> report your problems there, and we will try our hardest to get them solved
> as quickly as possible.
> //Magnus
>
>
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>  Magnus Hagander
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