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Upgrades tomorrow.

James — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:20:57 GMT

FYI - We're upgrading Wordpress and SMF tomorrow morning.
Hi Jelv
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When's this work happening?
Tomorrow morning.
What does it affect?
This will affect the front page of our Community Site, the Community Forums and the Community Library.
How long will it take?
About 90 minutes.
What does the work involve?
We are upgrading our installation of Wordpress (front page & library) to version 2.8.4 and SMF (forums) to version 1.1.10.
Is it likely to cause problems?
You won't be able to access all areas of the Community Site for at least a portion of the maintenance window.
Is there anything else I need to know?
No.
Kind Regards,
James Bailey
Customer Support

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

jelv — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:44:23 GMT

You might have replaced your first and second service status postings, but too late!
They have gone out by email, they're on the RSS feed, they've appeared on Usenet plusnet.service.status
http://usertools.plus.net/status/archive/1255425519.htm

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Planned Community Site Maintenance - Wednesday 14th October 5.30am-7.00am
Services
Posted on: Tuesday 13 October 2009, 10:18
When's this work happening?
Tomorrow morning.
What does it affect?
This will the front page of our Community Site, the Community Forums and the Community Library.
How long will it take?
About 90 minutes.
What does the work involve?
We are upgrading our installation of Wordpress (front page & library) to version 2.8.4 and SMF (forums) to version 1.1.10.
Is it likely to cause problems?
You won't be able to access all areas of the Community Site for at least a portion of the maintenance window.
Is there anything else I need to know?
Cross your fingers and pray.
Kind Regards,
James Bailey
Customer Support

Seriously, why don't you put a one line news item on SMF with a link to your post - that would appear at the top of the forums and should be seen by everyone?

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

James — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:50:19 GMT

Yeah thanks Jelv.
I'd also managed to mess up this post (twice). It's not been a good day.

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

James — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:49:17 GMT

It was quite funny really. In the end I posted 3 service status messages about the same thing.
The first one was fine, although I forgot to post it to Free-Online.
The second one had a line in that I'd put in to try and catch out Chris in his peer reviewing task (we always peer review a service status or planned maintenance post before making one), and I'd copied it from my text files instead of the Task I had sent Chris.
The third one had the right messaging and went to the right brands.
Next time I'll make sure that I've had my normal coffee quota. In at 5am tomorrow though, so it could happen all over again!

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

jmd — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:44:19 GMT

Oh well, that is why I got three identical looking emails from Plusnet................................. had a bad day then Jamesh...............

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

pierre_pierre — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:46:34 GMT

what does a free-online member have to do to get even one?

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

James — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:48:42 GMT

You have to signup via the Usertools page, Peter.
Upgrade is now complete - please let me know if you can see any problems with any aspect of the Community Site.
I've tested all basic functionality, and didn't come across any problems.

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

dgdclynx — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:29:05 GMT

Took me half an hour and hopefully all is well.

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

pierre_pierre — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:49:02 GMT

made the mistake of two xp machines doing it at once, one laptop , one netbook 12 and 13 downloads, the netbook took over an hour to download and about 15 mins to install. the laptop about 45 min total

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

pierre_pierre — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:51:30 GMT

James were you referring to M$S or portal and SMF

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

James — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:54:25 GMT

Wordpress and SMF Peter.
So:
http://community.plus.net
http://community.plus.net/forum
http://community.plus.net/library

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

James — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:55:06 GMT

So basically I have *no idea* why you lot are going opn about the MS patches in this thread

Re: Upgrades tomorrow.

pierre_pierre — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:59:04 GMT

this put me off the track

Quote from: dgdclynx
Took me half an hour and hopefully all is well.