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[Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is an excellent email, and I want to hold it up as an example to
the whole team. You clearly articulated what benefit this was bringing
to the stakeholders, timeboxed the downtime, and made it clear that
the interruption was limited to just smoke testing and the dashboard.

My only minor nit is that you didn't send this to
https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-announce. Please can we do this in
the future for all maintenance announcements?

Thank you, Andy.

On 5 February 2014 22:38, Andy Doan <andy.doan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The CI team will be landing changes to the Touch smoke testing process and
> the CI dashboard to bring in some new improvements and changes.  On the back
> end, these changes will make it so that all autopilot tests run with
> autopilot directly, and batches of tests can be submitted for retesting at a
> time.  On the dashboard, tests that are currently running will show up as
> "running" on the dashboard while they are in progress, and results will show
> up quickly after the test finishes rather than after scheduled polling
> intervals.
>
> These changes have been running on daily images in staging for quite some
> time now, and we are reasonably confident that everything will go smoothly.
> However, in order to avoid disruption, we plan to integrate these changes
> this Friday, February 7 so that they can be monitored over the weekend.  We
> plan to do this sometime between 14:00 and 18:00 UTC, after any testing is
> complete on previously built images.  No other services should be
> interrupted in the process.
>
> -andy
>
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