User:RobertKaye/May15 Release Plan

15 May 2012 Schema Change Release Plan

Prior to release

• commit MP::Table changes -- ocharles has done this
• Prepare production branch
• Run tests
• Prepare search indexes
  • create replicated database and update to latest replication packet
  • run upgrade.sh
  • update search server code on cartman
  • copy new war files to dora/roobarb
  • manually start an index build
  • manually push search indexes to dora/roobarb

Actual Release

• Take down beta

On astro

• turn off cron on astro
• take down servers
• check out updated production branch
• run upgrade.sh -- make sure to run this so other people can watch output!
  • upgrade.sh exports final replication packets for schema 14
• clear memcached
• increment schema number in DBDefs.pm
• bring up servers
• test to verify things are OK

On pingu, asterix

• take down servers
• check out updated production branch
• increment schema number in DBDefs.pm
• bring up servers
• test to verify things are OK

On dora/roobarb

• take down tomcat
• swap in new search server
• rotate indexes (from cartman)
• start tomcat

On cartman

• change DB configuration back to totoro
• re-enable index creation

Post release steps

• enable cron on astro
• post release notes on blog
• transclude any changed docs
  • any pages that mention CC and PD licenses need to be updated.
• initiate a backup run