Fwd: OpenJDK server migration TODAY (Friday 2014/3/7)

[Rory O'Donnell]

Hi Martijn,

Can you give this mailing list a heads up when/where hack days are 
happening ?
With sufficient notice, I might be able get some bodies to attend.

Thanks,Rory
On 08/03/2014 13:56, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> I know some of you are working on trying out OpenJDK 9 builds in today's
> hac session in London, please see the notes below.
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <mark.reinhold at oracle.com>
> Date: 7 March 2014 19:30
> Subject: OpenJDK server migration TODAY (Friday 2014/3/7)
> To: announce at openjdk.java.net
>
>
> We're going to migrate the OpenJDK db, cr, hg, and mail domains,
> as well as the root openjdk.java.net domain, to a new server later
> today.  The bugs and wiki domains will not be affected.
>
> Here's the time line:
>
>    14:00 PST (22:00 UTC) -- Servers go into read-only mode;
>                             inbound e-mail will be queued
>    21:00 PST (05:00 UTC) -- DNS entries change
>    23:00 PST (07:00 UTC) -- Service restored
>
> After the DNS entries change most services should be available for
> reading, but not for writing.  A followup announcement will be sent
> once all services are back to normal.
>
> We're taking this opportunity to upgrade the Mercurial (hg) server
> to use Mercurial version 2.9.  As a consequence:
>
>    - The push-only "-gate" repos will no longer be needed and will be
>      removed.  After the migration changes must be pulled from, and
>      pushed to, the same repository.  (Pushes will still be done via
>      ssh, not http.)  If you have recorded "-gate" repository paths
>      in any .hg/hgrc files then you'll have to remove the "-gate"
>      suffix from those paths.
>
>    - The unsupported Forest extension will no longer be present on the
>      server, so commands such as fpush, fpull, fincoming, etc., will no
>      longer work.  As an alternative you can use the recently-published
>      Trees extension [1] or the existing get_source.sh script [2].
>
>    - The minimum recommended version of Mercurial on the client side is
>      2.6.3, although earlier versions are likely to continue to work.
>
> After the migration, please report any problems (as usual) to ops at
> openjdk dot java dot net.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/trees
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/guide/repositories.html#clone

-- 
Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland