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

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Rory,

Absolutely, apologies for not doing so this time around!

Cheers,
Martijn


On 10 March 2014 11:53, Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonnell at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>