announce scheduled downtime
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	Dzahn
	Aug 24 2015, 11:32 PM

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need to debate and decide on a worst-case length.

We said so far: 4hours max length:

audience: wikitech-l , listadmins@lists and tagged with "user-notice"

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Dzahn created this task.Aug 24 2015, 11:32 PM

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Dzahn added projects: acl*sre-team, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists.

Dzahn added subscribers: ori, • MZMcBride, Dzahn and 5 others.

Dzahn mentioned this in T109467: write migration plan for mailman.Aug 24 2015, 11:59 PM

• JohnLewis moved this task from Backlog to Jessie/Upgrade (2.x) on the Wikimedia-Mailing-lists board.Aug 25 2015, 12:23 PM

also tell ops list

Dzahn mentioned this in T105756: Mailman Upgrade (Jessie & Mailman 2.x) and migration to a VM.Sep 1 2015, 8:44 PM

Agreed with John it should be:

Wednesday, September 9th at 1400 UTC which is 7am PDT and 2pm BST, so well within in European hours and works for both of us. Also not on a Friday or Monday morning.

3PM BST and adding usernotice.

Johan moved this task from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.Sep 2 2015, 9:44 AM

Johan moved this task from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Sep 2 2015, 6:03 PM

mailed ops@lists
mailed wikitech-l@lists
mailed listadmins@lists

talked briefly to Johan about it being on the Tech News too

Dzahn closed this task as Resolved.Sep 3 2015, 12:02 AM

Dzahn mentioned this in T109891: announce mailman downtime.Sep 3 2015, 5:14 AM

Dzahn merged a task: T109891: announce mailman downtime.

Johan moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Recently announced in Tech/News on the User-notice board.Sep 9 2015, 9:11 AM

@Johan scheduled next one for:

Friday, September 18, 2015 at 2:00:00 PM UTC
(Friday, September 18, 2015 at 7:00:00 AM PDT)

Dzahn added a subscriber: Johan.Sep 15 2015, 1:56 AM