PSA: POWER systems outage, date TBC (between 26 September and 6 October 2022)

[richardlau]

https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/ibm-aix-ibmi-hosting/Week-of-Mon-20220919/000078.html

No exact time is set yet, but sometime between 26 September and 6 October the POWER systems will be brought down for planned maintenance. If you have a time sensitive project, please respond with time(s) that downtime will have a critical impact on your project(s).

This will affect our AIX 7.2 test and release machines (used for Node.js 16 onwards).
@RafaelGSS @danielleadams What's the current plan regarding Node.js 18 releases around those dates? I'll respond to the mailing list thread with the planned dates to see if we can avoid affecting a release during that period.

[richardlau]

Following clarification of our release plan in today's Release WG meeting I've sent a reply asking to avoid 27 September: https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/ibm-aix-ibmi-hosting/Week-of-Mon-20220919/000079.html

[sxa]

@aixtools has let me know that there is maintenance today which will affect nodejs02 so we can expect some outages today.

[danielleadams]

@richardlau @sxa It seems the maintenance window has passed, so is this Issue okay to close?

[sxa]

Yes - there was a potential for some follow-on effects to happen in a couple of weeks time but I have confirmed that some migration of the Node system was done which means they will not be affected by the next one :-)