Sourceware service migration; downtime friday/weekend 28/29/30 nov

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Jan,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 01:44:18PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 25.11.2025 13:25, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > Sourceware service migration; downtime friday/weekend 28/29/30 nov
> > 
> > Various sourceware.org, cygwin.com, gcc.gnu.org, dwarfstd.org,
> > elfutils.org and valgrind.org services will migrate to a bigger server
> > in a new datacenter this Friday afternoon.
> 
> Could you clarify which timezone's afternoon this is, and when "afternoon"
> approximately starts (possibly right after noon, but that's not necessarily
> everyone's interpretation)?

Sorry, I don't have an exact time. It depends on when various people
can do DNS/network setting updates. But I expect the actual migration
will take place between 16:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC.

To get that in your local timezone:
$ date -d "Fri 28 Nov 2025 16:00 UTC"
$ date -d "Fri 28 Nov 2025 20:00 UTC"

But DNS propagation also takes time and might make the new server
inaccessible for some time after that.

> > We already did a test migration and theoretically a fresh data sync to
> > the new datacenter should take just ~4 hours. But there are also
> > various DNS updates that need to be coordinated and might take some
> > time to propagate. So expect some service interruptions starting
> > Friday afternoon possibily extending into the weekend.
> > 
> > Please follow https://fosstodon.org/@sourceware for updates.
> > 
> > For more background about bigger servers, datacenter moves and
> > (upcoming) service isolation see
> > https://sourceware.org/sourceware-wiki/Migration2025/
>