Re: Mirror maintenance windows, related communication, order of checks (Was: Re: pl1.php.net Disabled)

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Patrick Schaaf <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 30.04.2015 19:07 schrieb "Patrick Schaaf" <[email protected]>:
> >
> > Would you also like to be prenotified when I update PHP or the OS/kernel
> on the boxes, which when it happens, sometimes takes 30 seconds for a
> reboot or rollback in case of problems? So far during the last few years, I
> simply relied on the automation to spot somewhat prolongued (unplanned)
> episodes, and for short upgrades including reboots I just did it.
>
> If we want to go down this path, and I can see it would be good for the
> users, maybe a way for us mirror operators to actively disable and reenable
> the mirror, would be the best (least amount of up front communication and
> time coordination)? I'm thinking about a dedicated "enable/disable" SSH key
> per mirror, with some automation at php.net central that the key could
> trigger to take the mirror out of service, and back into service.
>
> If you are interested, I'd certainly volunteer for co-development and
> testing of such a mechanism.
>
> best regards
>   Patrick
>

for the record previously we had a grace period before disabling the faulty
mirror, but Hannes recently removed that to simplify the code, I think that
is why we are seeing the increased amount of "false" notifications:
http://git.php.net/?p=web/master.git;a=commit;h=67b2136ef230cbf879607cfff553549455b90614

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