05 Mar 08 Sympa upgrade – another try

We have resolved the routing problem that scuttled Sunday’s Sympa upgrade (thanks, Tom & Andy!).  We will be trying the upgrade again Wednesday evening, March 5, beginning at 4:30 p.m.  Since much of the heavy lifting was done in preparation for Sunday’s (non-)launch we believe we can accomplish the upgrade in just a few hours Wednesday evening.

 

So… Sympa will be stopped at 4:30 p.m. CST on Wednesday, March 5, 2008.  Please notify your lists as you feel necessary.  Incoming messages for all lists will be queued up and processed as soon as the upgrade is complete.  Because a) the queue time will be much shorter than Sunday’s 10 hours and b) the new server will perform better than the one Sympa is currently on, we do not expect a large backlog of messages to process, and certainly nothing that will linger into Thursday’s work hours.