On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 15:24 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Hi Phil (and everyone) > > On 2022/03/01 15:10, Philip Wyett wrote: > > Thank you for the terse response. The two examples i.e. micronews and the > > infra list do not > > sound > > that this is scheduled work at all. Better communication from teams would > > possibly give better > > understanding and the patience of users/developers that is being asked for. > > Our GitLab instance (Salsa), have fallen behind multiple versions. This > is due to a bunch of different hurdles that all came with their own > decisions (I'm going to urge the Salsa admins again to do a write-up > about it). > > So what's happening now is point-to-point upgrades between all the > GitLab versions needed on this upgrade path, along with the migrations > between them (which are quite large, Salsa is one of the biggest GitLab > instances out there). > > So while a huge amount of pent up maintenance is all happening at once > now, at least regular updates (and security updates) will be able to run > again on short cycles. > > (I hope salsa admins don't mind me posting this, but I hope it helps all > our contributors better understand what's going on). > > On a practical note, please take note of any uploads you do during this > downtime, and be sure to do a git push along with the tags when Salsa is > back up again. > > -Jonathan >
Hi Jonathan, Many thanks for the update. I hope work progresses well and salsa is available again soon post the work that needs to be performed. Regards Phil -- *** Playing the game for the games own sake. *** WWW: https://kathenas.org Twitter: @kathenasorg IRC: kathenas GPG: 724AA9B52F024C8B
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