Next week (Tuesday, 2022-04-19 15:00 UTC) we will be upgrading the
operating system that hosts the shared Toolsdb servers. This upgrade may
take an hour or more, during which time the databases will not be available.
This outage will be VERY DISRUPTIVE to many toolforge tools, as all
database access will fail during the upgrade. Toolforge users may want
to disable tools before the outage and/or check in to verify proper
recovery after service is restored.
There is likely to be a similar (or longer) outage in subsequent weeks
as we also need to upgrade the database servers themselves. Toolsdb has
grown to an ungainly size and can't be easily handled using standard
rolling upgrade procedures; the WMCS team is in ongoing discussions
about long-term solutions for this issue. In the meantime you can help
us out by engaging in periodic cleanup of your database usage and
dumping or dropping data that's no longer of use.
-Andrew + the WMCS team
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