h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi everyone.

I just had a phone call from Paul, our man who looks after the h2g2 servers and who's responsible for actually performing the upgrade, and I'm afraid there's a problem. The development server, on which DNA 1.01 currently resides, stopped talking to the database late Friday afternoon, and because it's the weekend and the h2g2 technical team is either still recuperating or enjoying the sunshine, we won't be able to track down the problem until Monday. This leaves us with two options:

1. Deploy the code anyway on Monday, and hope that the problem with the dev server is just a strange glitch that won't affect the live service if DNA 1.01 is deployed.

2. Wait until we've done a diagnostic on the dev server to find out what caused database communication problem, and if we find it's nothing to do with DNA 1.01, to go ahead with deployment... and if not, to fix the bug.

As Jim is still incommunicado, I've opted for the latter, because I'd rather delay the upgrade slightly than risk the whole site going down after the upgrade. I'm hopeful that this is just one of those things and isn't related to DNA 1.01, but I'm erring on the side of caution.

So I'm sorry, but the upgrade is going to be delayed again, but next week is pretty uncluttered for everyone involved, so as soon as we identify the dev problem, we'll get the upgrade rolling again. Humblest apologies, but it's better than risking an outage on the live service, I reckon.

(BTW, if Jim was around, then he'd have no doubt investigated it by now; however, unscheduled hospital ops are rather hard to plan around!)

Mark

try feeding the server more .....

but seriously, good luck for monday, hope things are simple to fix. Thursday would be a good day for the actual upgrade to take place for me, just in case you are spoilt for choice

FABT

Two words: Mercury retrograde.

-7_weird_"coincidence"_ain't_it?_7

Just when you thought it was safe to use a scheduler...

What sunshine?



Good luck to Jim and whatever his ailment is.. I don't want to know, just give him my best wishes.

Thanks.

something to do with a plastic spoon, custard and sponge cake in the bbc canteen i seem to recall......

*blinks*

Fair enough. Don't worry

Thanks Galaxy Babe, we will.

*worries about the plastic spoon remark*



Thank you, Peta!

ooooooooh crumbs!

all I can say is "don't panic Captain Wainwaring!"
here's hoping everything goes OK on my beloved h2g2land.
all round just to make sure,
and my special words of wisdom
'never leave your beer bottle open and unguarded when there are s or moths about"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F77636?thread=184455&skip=40&show=20 was the origin of my earlier remark

Oh, Peta - do pass on my best wishes to Jim, won't you? *looks unselfish, whereas actually wants him to be better so he can help out*

Whoami?

Paul? Who is this Paul person? You let non-h2g2-members fiddle with the h2g2 servers? BBC employees of all of them? Whaddaya expect?

Budget cutlery ... reminds me of that old tune about being too old to mutt the custard anymore .

Where there's budget cutlery, there's budget cuts.
And vice versa. Soon operating rooms will be using plastic scalpels and spoons and suction will be via plastic drinking straws.

"Sponge! ..Wha'? ..Cake?!"
"Let 'em eat sponges!"
~jwf~

~j~aunts
~w~ith
~f~armaceuticals

Yes, well, while Farm Ecology may be an interesting if contentious topic it certainly has nothing to do with the subject at hand. So please, let's confine ourselves to custards, plastic dinnerware, surgical procedures and Mister Moxon's courage in the face of yet another squirrelly scheduling dilema.

~jiggy wif fit~

[] Baaa... I want to talk about Farm Ecology... Baa...

[ (AKA Robert)] . I hope that 'Plastic Dinnerware' isn't made out of recycled vending cups, like my pencil and ruler...

Grapes & very low-fat & lots of s for Jim & grapes & for Mark

This may be a stupid question, but what's changing with this upgrade? It's probably been mentioned, but I've missed it!!

For one thing, I get to take my name of all the articles that annoying people put my name on...

For another, there's loads of changes 'under the hood'. There's a list of the changes somewhere, I'll try and find it for you.