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Launchpad offline 00.00 - 02.00 UTC 1st July

Matthew Revell — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:43:10 +0000

We’re rolling out the code for Launchpad 1.2.6 in the early hours of July 1st. This means we’ll have to take Launchpad offline for a couple of hours.

Launchpad goes offline: 00.00 UTC 1st July
Expected back online: 02.00 UTC 1st July.

To get email notification of future service-affecting issues, join our new ultra-low traffic mailing list, launchpad-announce.

Launchpad service interruptions 17th, 18th and 19th June

Matthew Revell — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:44:47 +0000

On June 17th, Launchpad will be unavailable for five hours from 22.00 UTC. Following that, there will be service interruptions on June 18th and 19th.

Downtime details

June 17th 22.00 UTC - 03.00 UTC: all of Launchpad will be offline.
June 18th 22.00 UTC - 00.00 UTC: code browse and pushing and pulling to code branches hosted on Launchpad will be unavailable.
June 19th 22.00 UTC - 03.00 UTC: uploading to, building and publishing in package archives - both distribution archives and PPAs - will be unavailable.

Why this is happening

We’re upgrading the servers that host Launchpad to use the latest version of Ubuntu, 8.04 LTS (also known as Hardy Heron). This will give us an improved platform on which to develop new Launchpad services. Specifically, we’ll get Python 2.5 and PostgreSQL 8.3, along with updates to several libraries that Launchpad relies on.

We’re sorry for the down-time and service interruptions that these upgrades will cause.

If you have any questions, please post them to the launchpad-users.

Please note: we have a new ultra-low traffic list for Launchpad service announcements. Subscribe to launchpad-announce.

Offline 01.00 - 03.00 UTC 29th May 2008

Matthew Revell — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:11:42 +0000

Launchpad will be offline for two hours from 01.00 UTC on 29th May 2008, while we roll out Launchpad 1.2.5.

Offline: 01.00 UTC
Expected back: 03.00 UTC

Subscribe to this blog to find out what’s new in 1.2.5.

Offline 21.00 - 23.00 UTC 10th May 2008

Matthew Revell — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:25:57 +0000

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

If you want to see Launchpad service notifications, such as this, in your feed reader please subscribe to our notifications feed.

We’re sorry for the down time this database upgrade will cause.

Offline 00.00 - 02.00 1st May

Matthew Revell — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:34:42 +0000

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.

Mailing List Notifications have bad URLs

Joey Stanford — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:09:30 +0000

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

Offline 28th March 08 00:00 - 02:00 UTC

Matthew Revell — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:56:56 +0000

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

Offline 21 Feb 00.00 - 03.00 UTC

Matthew Revell — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:28:09 +0000

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.

Down-time 5am 24th January UTC

Matthew Revell — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:05:39 +0000

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!

Downtime 01.00 UTC 20th December

Matthew Revell — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:23:44 +0000

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