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[Edwin Grubbs <edwin.grubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Stuart Bishop
<stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Edwin Grubbs
> <edwin.grubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> So, if lifeless rolls back the branchrevision patch, can we safely say
>> that the downtime will be two hours? The ReleaseManagerRotation wiki
>> page doesn't specify exactly when the downtime should be announced,
>> but I assume we want to send something out by EOD on Friday.
>
> DB downtime should be minimal without that patch.
>
> We can only give a proper estimate the Monday after PQM closes. With
> luck we get a full staging DB rebuild over the weekend including all
> those last minute DB patches that land just before PQM closes, and can
> use that to guesstimate the database downtime.


What should we use for the downtime estimate since the staging DB
rebuild failed? I think the downtime notification really needs to go
out as soon as possible.

-Edwin