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Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 08.00 UTC on the 6th April 2011.

Starts: 08.00 UTC 6th April 2011
Expected to end by: 09.30 UTC 6th April 2011

This is to allow for a structural update to Launchpad’s database.

Unfortunately, we have to move this week’s Launchpad database update. The previously announced service interruption due on Wednesday the 9th of March will now take place on Thursday the 10th of March.

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 09.00 UTC on the 10th of March 2011.

Starts: 09.00 UTC 10th March 2011
Expected back by: 10.30 UTC 10th March 2011

I’m sorry for the short notice of this change. One of our operational sysadmin team is ill, meaning that we won’t have cover during the time that we had originally planned.

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From 23.00 UTC on the 9th of March 2011, Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes. This is to allow us to make an update to the structure of the Launchpad database.

Starts: 23.00 UTC 9th of March 2011
Expected back by: 00.30 UTC 10th of March 2011

In thirteen hours from this posting, Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes. This is to allow us to make an update to the structure of the Launchpad database.

Starts: 23.00 UTC 10th of February 2011
Expected back by: 00.30 UTC 11th of February 2011

We tried to make this release yesterday. Unfortunately, we came across a problem during the roll-out and had to stop what we were doing in order to find a fix.

I’m sorry that we’ve had to arrange a second period of service disruption in two days.

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 9th of February 2011.

Starts: 23.00 UTC 9th of February 2011
Expected to be back to normal by: 00.30 UTC 10th of February 2011

This is to allow for an update to the structure of Launchpad’s database as part of our monthly development cycle.

Launchpad code hosting will be offline between 12.00 and 12.20 UTC for hardware maintenance on Wednesday, January 26. That’s tomorrow. This means you will be unable to push to, pull from or browse code hosted on Launchpad. All other Launchpad services will be unaffected.

Offline: 12.00 UTC 26th January 2011
Expected back by: 12.20 UTC 26th January 2011

We’ll update this post and our status feeds as soon as we’re back online.

On Friday, our codehosting server went offline unexpectedly. Turns out this was due to a hardware failure. Tomorrow, we will be fixing the underlying hardware problem, but that will mean more downtime. Sorry.

Update: The hardware upgrade went well, code hosting is back online.

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 12th January 2011.

Starts: 23.00 UTC 12th January 2011
Expected to be back to normal by: 00.30 UTC 13th January 2011

This is to allow for an update to the structure of Launchpad’s database as part of our monthly release process.

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for up to 90 minutes from 10.00 UTC on the 8th December.

Starts: 10.00 UTC 8th December 2010.
Expected back by: 11.30 UTC 8th December 2010.

During this time we will be making updates to Launchpad’s database.

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for up to two hours from 10.00 UTC on Wednesday the 17th November 2010. Other aspects, such as PPAs and branch hosting, will be offline during this time.

Starts: 10.00 UTC 17th November 2010
Expected back before: 12.00 UTC 17th November 2010

This service disruption is to allow for updates to Launchpad’s database.

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around two hours on Wednesday the 13th of October, while we roll-out new Launchpad code.

Starts: 22.00 UTC 13th October 2010
Expected back: 00.00 UTC 14th October 2010