Maniphest T129257

Set expectations with community about planned and possible impact of switchover
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	Mar 8 2016, 6:31 PM

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Make sure that editors know what may be affected --

Some jobs may be dropped on the floor.
MediaWiki will be in read-only mode.
Latency may increase.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Krinkle	T129257 Set expectations with community about planned and possible impact of switchover
		Resolved		• Whatamidoing-WMF	T129387 Inform communities about the planned outage caused by the codfw server change
		Resolved		• Whatamidoing-WMF	T128836 Provide last-minute on-wiki warnings to editors that the site may be down for a few minutes
		Resolved		• Whatamidoing-WMF	T129501 Find out whether it's possible to tell editors that the reason they can't save is due to a planned outage
		Resolved		• AlexMonk-WMF	T129964 Improve how VisualEditor reports read-only mode

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ori created this task.Mar 8 2016, 6:31 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMar 8 2016, 6:31 PM

ori added projects: codfw-rollout, codfw-rollout-Jan-Mar-2016.Mar 8 2016, 6:32 PM

ori updated the task description. (Show Details)

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Thanks @Whatamidoing-WMF, @Jalexander, @jrbs!

Krinkle moved this task from Backlog to Done on the codfw-rollout-Jan-Mar-2016 board.Apr 21 2016, 3:15 PM

Krinkle added a subtask: T129387: Inform communities about the planned outage caused by the codfw server change.Apr 21 2016, 3:27 PM

jrbs awarded a token.Apr 21 2016, 4:34 PM

Qgil awarded a token.Apr 22 2016, 10:30 AM

• Whatamidoing-WMF closed subtask T129387: Inform communities about the planned outage caused by the codfw server change as Resolved.Apr 26 2016, 5:30 PM