Hi CommRel,
We are tentatively planning a datacenter switchover for the week of June 28th (June 21st is the fallback plan) - do you see any issues/conflicts with those dates and do they work for you? A date for switching back hasn't been set yet.
Past: T244808: CommRel support for FY2020-2021 Q1 DC switchover, https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Relations_Specialists/codfw
In serviceops meetings, we also discussed not putting up a banner this time given how short the last read-only period was, does that seem reasonable or do you think we still should have a banner?
Planning
Two weeks before (June 7 - week 23)
- Tech News (initial warning)
- Update the message to communities
- Have the message being translated by emailing both:
- translators-l for translations
- wikitech-l for information and translations
- Monitor the message's talk page
Two weeks before (June 14 - week 24)
- Set the banner set for a display on all wikis 30 minutes before it happens
The week before (June 21 - week 25)
- Emailing mailing lists:
- wikitech-l and translators once again
- wmfall (done by Ops)
- Added to the news on the Meta front page
- Message communities
- non-technical village pumps
- bot coordination pages
The week it happens (June 28 - week 26)
- Tech News (this is happening this week)
The week after (July 5 - week 27)
- Debrief