Re: upcoming infrastructure changes/OS upgrades on *.postgresql.org

On 09/25/2015 08:30 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
>> * borka.postgresql.org - official tarball and docs build server, the
>> upgrade will upgrade the toolchain on that box to the respective
>> versions of what is in jessie. If people think it is necessarily to
>> (double)check the effects beforehand we would like to know so we can
>> coordinate some testing.
>
> I think it's probably sufficient to run a test tarball build after
> the upgrade; I can do so if you notify me when the upgrade's done.
>
> As Andres says nearby, it would be good if this did *not* happen
> during the first week of October, since we have releases scheduled
> then. Actually, since that will be the final 9.0.x release, I'd
> vote for postponing the borka upgrade till after that. That's
> one less old branch to worry about new-toolchain compatibility for.
> And if there is some subtle problem in the tarballs that we find later,
> not having to reissue the last 9.0.x release would be a good thing.

yeah the point about 9.0.x is a very good one - so I think we will
target mid/end of october for borka so we get a bit of time to deal with
any fallout from the release (if needed).

We could target the same timeframe for gemulon, unless people think that
doing it this(!) weekend would work as well (as in would be far enough
out from the upcoming releases).

Stefan