Re: PROPOSAL: Upgrading every RHEL server to RHEL5 on Sun April 1st

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

Olav Vitters wrote:
> I propose to upgrade every RHEL server from RHEL3/4 to RHEL5 on Sunday
> April 1 2007. Very likely things will break, that is why I NEED
> additional sysadmins to standby.

A very brave and worthy proposal :) I'll make myself available on IRC 
during from the Saturday, and try to help out as directed.

I'm GMT+0700 atm so I'll probably be the first to come and the first to 
go. In fact, I'm not even sure I'll be around at the same time as the 
rest of you, so I might end up being the 'out-of-hours' response during 
that period.

> The servers involved (http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/Servers):
>  * container, our NFS server, serving files for the other RHEL servers
>  * menubar, our mail and DNS server
>  * window, containing loads of websites (www.gnome.org,
>    developer.gnome.org, etc, etc)
>  * button, containing MySQL and mango
>  * label, containing moinmoin (wiki sites like live.gnome.org)
>  * box, containing bugzilla.gnome.org and LDAP (hosts our accounts)
>
> I can handle Bugzilla, DNS, moinmoin, window, mail, MySQL. I want
> sysadmins for the rest (NFS, LDAP).

NFS and LDAP shouldn't be a problem. I can check/update/fix them as 
required.

> sysadmins: available? suggestions/objections?

No objections from me. A big +1.

Obviously, probably worth announcing it on the main dev announce lists 
and putting it in the /topic on #gnome and #gnome-hackers at least a 
week in advance so no-one can pretend they didn't know :) Oh, and 
probably worth asking Owen to do a final check of the backups on the 
Saturday - just in case.

Cheers,

--
Ross