Hi Phil (and everyone)
On 2022/03/01 15:10, Philip Wyett wrote:
Thank you for the terse response. The two examples i.e. micronews and
the infra list do not sound
that this is scheduled work at all. Better communication from teams
would possibly give better
understanding and the patience of users/developers that is being asked
for.
Our GitLab instance (Salsa), have fallen behind multiple versions. This
is due to a bunch of different hurdles that all came with their own
decisions (I'm going to urge the Salsa admins again to do a write-up
about it).
So what's happening now is point-to-point upgrades between all the
GitLab versions needed on this upgrade path, along with the migrations
between them (which are quite large, Salsa is one of the biggest GitLab
instances out there).
So while a huge amount of pent up maintenance is all happening at once
now, at least regular updates (and security updates) will be able to run
again on short cycles.
(I hope salsa admins don't mind me posting this, but I hope it helps all
our contributors better understand what's going on).
On a practical note, please take note of any uploads you do during this
downtime, and be sure to do a git push along with the tags when Salsa is
back up again.
-Jonathan