Going offline: 09.00 UTC 5th November 2009
Expected back: 10.30 UTC 5th November 2009

This is to release version 3.1.10 of Launchpad. We’re sorry for the short notice of this down-time.

Going offline: 04.00 UTC 26th October
Expected back: 04.30 UTC 26th October

With such a big system, it’s inevitable that from time to time we have to rearrange the furniture a little. Aside from our monthly code roll-out, where Launchpad goes read-only for an hour or so, we occasionally have to swap out or reconfigure hardware, as you’d expect. Up until now, we’ve used a combination of this blog and the launchpad-announce mailing list to keep you up to date on any Launchpad service-affecting issues but we haven’t had a canonical (heh) status page to which you can refer and know you’re going to get a definitive answer.

So, now we have the Launchpad status page!

It’s hosted by the excellent identi.ca so you can subscribe using your identi.ca account or to the Atom or RSS feed. We’re also automatically copying everything over to the launchpadstatus Twitter account.

What does it cover?

We’re using the identi.ca-hosted status page to announce service-affecting issues that are happening right now or that we know will happen in the following 48 hours.

Also, we’re only going to post when the main production Launchpad site or the edge environment are affected, as they’re the two environments in which you can do real work.

Longer-term planning

As the status page only covers what’s happening in the next 48 hours, it’s not so useful for longer-term planning. So, as soon as we know about any pending service-interruption, we’ll add it to the maintenance page of the Launchpad dev wiki.

Blog and email updates

We’ll still continue to post notification of down-time here on the Launchpad blog and to the launchpad-announce mailing list. However, we’ll limit those posts to planned maintenance that’s likely to affect a sizeable number of people.

For things happening right now, or that are likely to be no more than the equivalent of a minor bump in the road, we’ll post them to the identi.ca-hosted status page only.

Elsewhere on identi.ca

Don’t forget, we also have a news account on identi.ca and also Twitter.

During that time you won’t be able to push to, pull from, otherwise modify or browse code that is hosted on Launchpad.

Starts: 10.00 UTC 9th October
Expected back: 10.30 UTC 9th October

     Going offline: 10am UTC, 1 Oct 2009
     Expected back: 10:30am UTC, 1 Oct 2009

That’s 11am London (BST), 12 noon Western Europe, 2pm Moscow, 6pm Beijing, 8pm Sydney, 3am California, 6am New York.

Going read-only: 22.00 UTC 23rd September 2009
Expected back: 23.00 UTC 23rd September 2009.

During this time we’ll be releasing Launchpad 3.0! Details of the release to follow!

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Going read-only: 09.00 UTC 24th June 2009
Expected back to normal: 10.00 UTC 24th June 2009

There’ll be a couple of minutes where Launchpad is unavailable while we switch into read-only mode. Keep reading this blog for details of the new release!

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 4th June 2009
Expected back: 22.10 UTC 4th June 2009

Note: Launchpad’s OpenID service will remain online throughout this downtime.

• Going read-only: 22.00 UTC 26th May 2009
• Back to normal: 23.00 UTC 26th May 2009

You may notice a couple of minutes around 22.00 where Launchpad is offline. That’s while we switch to read-only mode.

This release was planned for the 27th of May. We’re sorry for the short notice of the change in our release date.