title: Downtime notice for the RW git repositories
date: '2015-01-12T15:02:12+00:00'
permalink: downtime_notice_for_the_r
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Folks,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Please note than on Thursday 15th at 20:00 UTC the Infrastructure team</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">will be taking the read/write git repositories offline.&nbsp; We expect</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that this migration to last about 4 hours.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">During the outage the service will be migrated from an old host to a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">new one.&nbsp; &nbsp;We intend to keep the URL the same for access to the repos</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">after the migration, but an alternate name is already in place in case</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">DNS updates take too long.&nbsp; &nbsp;Please be aware it might take some hours</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">after the completion of the downtime for GitHub to update and reflect</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">any changes.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The Infrastructure team have been trialling the new host for about a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week now, and [touch wood] have not had any problems with it.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The service is currently available by accessing repos via:</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://git-wip-us.apache.org/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">https://git-wip-us.apache.org</a><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">If you have any questions please address them to </span><a href="mailto:infrastructure@apache.org" title="[GMCP] Compose a new mail to infrastructure@apache.org" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">infrastructure@apache.org</a><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" />
