Re: Upcoming web platform upgrade

The plan is to start sometime before lunch on sunday, european time. But
yes, we will send updates here saying both when we start and when we're
done (and when we've rolled back :P)

//Magnus

On Thursday, November 24, 2011, Robert Treat wrote:

> 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(at)hagander(dot)net<javascript:;>>
> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Magnus Hagander
> > Me: http://www.hagander.net/
> > Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
> >
>

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Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/