News from the Launchpad team
We’re taking Launchpad offline for a couple of hours this Saturday (UTC) to upgrade our main database server to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (also known as Hardy Heron).
Going offline: 21.00 UTC
Expected back: 23.00 UTC
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We’re sorry for the down time this database upgrade will cause.
We’re releasing Launchpad 1.2.4 in the early hours of 1st May 2008. To roll out the new code, we need to take Launchpad offline.
Going offline: 00.00 UTC 1st May 2008.
Coming back: 02.00 UTC 1st May 2008.
We’re sorry if you want to use Launchpad at that time.
Hi Gang,
Just a quick heads up that we uncovered a problem today with Launchpad Mailing List notifications. You may have received a mailing list notification from Launchpad with a funny URL that looks like
https://xmlrpc.lp.internal/~rinchen/+editemails
These courtesy emails are normally sent out (with correct URLs) when a team you are a member of creates a new Launchpad Mailing List. The email is still valid despite the incorrect URL.
You should visit your Launchpad person page and view your email settings. At the bottom you will see “Mailing list subscriptions”. From here you can manage your Launchpad mailing list subscriptions.
Here’s a short cut to that page: https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+editemails
Sorry for the inconvenience. We should have this fixed by tomorrow.
Joey Stanford
We’re releasing Launchpad 1.2.3 in the early hours, UTC, of the 28th March 2008.
Offline from: 00.00 UTC
Expected back: 02.00 UTC
We’re releasing Launchpad 1.2.2 on 21st February. While we roll-out the code to each of Launchpad’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.
Goes offline: 00.00 21st February 2008 UTC
Expected back online: 03.00 21st February 2008 UTC
Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new in 1.2.2!
We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.
On Thursday 24th January we’re making the first Launchpad release of 2008! Launchpad will be offline while we roll-out the new code.
Offline at: 05.00 UTC 2008-01-24
Expected back online at: 06.30 UTC 2008-01-24
Thanks for bearing with us while we release Launchpad 1.2.1!
On the 20th December (UTC) we’re releasing Launchpad 1.1.12. During the roll-out of the new code, Launchpad will be offline for roughly ninety minutes.
Start time: 02.00 UTC 20th December 2007.
Estimated end time: 03.30 UTC 20th December 2007.
2007-12-20 00:52 - Delayed one hour
As I blogged yesterday, Launchpad 1.1.11 includes major speed and reliability improvements to Launchpad Translations. Much of this is thanks to a new simplified structure for the Translations database.
With 837,333 strings across 8,112 templates in 244 languages, the patch to modify the Translations database tables affects millions of rows of data. Extensive testing gave us a benchmark of around three hours to apply the new database structure. During yesterday’s release of 1.1.11, it became clear that it would actually take much longer.
Rather than keep Launchpad offline for longer than the three and a half hour window we’d announced, we decided to delay the roll-out of Launchpad 1.1.11. Thankfully, PostgreSQL and the scripts that we use to apply the updates to our database are fully transactional so no recovery step was needed.
Following further testing, we’re now going to release Launchpad 1.1.11 on Sunday 25th November. We’re allowing an eight hour window, meaning that we expect Launchpad to be offline between 03.00 UTC and 11.00 UTC on that day.
Thanks for bearing with us while we take Launchpad offline for this time.
We’re releasing Launchpad 1.1.11 on Thursday 22nd November at 02.00 UTC.
When we roll out the new version, Launchpad will be offline for approximately three and a half hours (i.e. between 02.00 and 05.30 UTC). During this time, you’ll be unable to use Launchpad and also unable to log into some other services that use Launchpad to authenticate user accounts, such as the Ubuntu wiki and the Canonical store.
We’re sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. If you have questions or comments, please email us: feedback@launchpad.net.
Earlier today we had intended to roll out some bug fixes following the Launchpad release yesterday. We do this from time to time following a release as needed to ensure the most stable environment for our users. These normally take only a few minutes to implement.
Tonight during the roll-out process we encountered an unexpected error that did not present itself during our normal QA checks. The solution to this problem requires some additional research on our part. We believe we will need to update data in Launchpad early next week in order to resolve this issue. This should not involve any further downtime.
Unfortunately this issue affects the feature in bug #50663 - “There should be a report to show Needs Info bugs that have had a response”. That feature will not work until we resolve the current situation.
We apologize for the disruption in service.
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