Toolserver:Maintenance schedule
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This page details the Toolserver maintenance schedule for maintenance activities that cause user-visible outages.
Maintenance is divided into four categories:
- Trivial maintenance
- Maintenance that is not visible to users (or does not not affect users) and does not cause downtime. A Jira-ticket with the issue "Minor work" is filled in before.
- General maintenance
- Maintenance that is visible to users, and/or requires action from users, or maintenance that does not affect users but causes downtime. This includes all non-security-related software updates. A Jira-ticket with the issue "Planned work - user impact" is filled in before.
- Critical maintenance
- Maintenance that would otherwise be general maintenance, but needs to be performed outside the normal schedule to ensure the stability or security of the Toolserver platform. A Jira-ticket with the issue "Planned work - user impact" is filled in before.
- Emergency maintenance
- Maintenance that must be performed immediately and without advance notice. A Jira-ticket with the issue "Emergency work is filled when the work is done.
We will schedule maintenance as follows:
- Trivial maintenance will be performed on an ad-hoc basis and with no notice to users.
- General maintenance will be announced 24h at minimum on the mailing-list before it will happen. The message MUST contain the start-time of the maintenance and SHOULD contain a estimate length and the link to the ticket.
- Critical maintenance will be announced 6h at minimum on the mailing-list before it will happen. The message MUST contain the start-time of the maintenance and SHOULD contain a estimate length and the link to the ticket.
- Emergency maintenance will be performed immediately, and the list will be notified afterwards. The message SHOULD contain a link to the ticket.