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

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Rory,

Just realised that I haven't done this!  I'm going to see if I can edit the
wiki page now and start adding them.  Right, done.

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Adoption/Hackdays

Cheers,
Martijn

On 10 March 2014 at 05:35, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>