In T292543#8605962, @Kaartic wrote:

That's really nice. The Tech News announcement did not mention this. It might be a good idea to convey this also possibly in the next edition.

In T292543#8597029, @Ladsgroup wrote:

They should be visible in the deployment calendar: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments

They should be visible in the deployment calendar: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments

I suggest adding a final tech news saying this won't be announced anymore and users could see some short read-only times in 7AM UTC in Tuesdays and Thursdays.

\o/

In T292543#8570515, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

In T292543#8570264, @Ladsgroup wrote:

Awesome. Thanks. if that helps, We are going to have a DC switchover soon (end of this quarter)

The earlier you set the date and share it with us, the better!
I need to book some time to finish the DC switchover documentation and process so that CRS will be ready to assist you.

In T292543#8570264, @Ladsgroup wrote:

Awesome. Thanks. if that helps, We are going to have a DC switchover soon (end of this quarter)

Awesome. Thanks. if that helps, We are going to have a DC switchover soon (end of this quarter)

In T292543#8568433, @Ladsgroup wrote:

I'm fairly certain that this patch reduces the read-only time to a minimum. I suggest adding a final tech news saying this won't be announced anymore and users could see some short read-only times in 7AM UTC in Tuesdays and Thursdays.

In T292543#8531821, @Ladsgroup wrote:

Regarding primary database switchover, if you are totally confident that they will be unnoticed, then we can stop announcing them on Tech News. Maybe we should have a communication procedure in the case of a failure, assuming that they will always have the same impact, a longer-than-expected read-only?

Yeah, let's pick this up again after the patch is deployed in production and I'm sure it fixes the flood of pre-switchover read-onlys.

In T292543#8531794, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

@Ladsgroup, this task is (now) only about Datacenter switchovers, "the big one". Even it it happen less and once a year, it is important for us to have procedures to announce it. :)

@Ladsgroup, this task is (now) only about Datacenter switchovers, "the big one". Even it it happen less and once a year, it is important for us to have procedures to announce it. :)

In T292543#8530978, @Elitre wrote:

@Trizek-WMF @Ladsgroup do you think we are done here, or?

Last server switch was on Tuesday 14 September 2021.

I've removed this from the descriptions of my regular duties (both the team page on Meta and the internal table). Last calendar year, unless I'm mistaken, we did this 0 times. To me, it looks like this: should our team receive any request, either Benoît or I will react. But in terms of regular workflows and time allocation, it's been 0%-ish.

@Quiddity new status, please?

@Trizek-WMF @Ladsgroup do you think we are done here, or?

I keep this task as a background one, but I'm not focusing on it right now.