NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance / Downtime Feb 3 2012

[MikeN1 (MikeN)]

FYI -

On Friday 3rd of February 2012 between 11:30 and 13:00 (GMT / UTC) the
primary database server will unavailable due to planned maintenance.

The following services WILL be affected:

• www.openstreetmap.org web site will not allow user login or edits
  (Potlatch). [1]
• API and map database editing (using JOSM, Merkaartor etc.) will be
  unavailable.
• planet.openstreetmap.org will be available but no new diffs will be
  generated during the outage.
• Forum (no logins) [ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org ]
• trac (bug-tracker) [ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org ]
• help.openstreetmap.org (no logins)

Other services will NOT be affected - all of the following are
expected to function normally:

• tile serving (“View The Map” & “Export”)
• Wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org
• Nominatim (search)
• mailing lists
• subversion and git (source code repositories)
• donate.openstreetmap.org

Technical: Server Smaug: BIOS Update (to enable PCI-E 256 byte
payload), RAID Controller PCI-E slot re-location and potential rack
move. Server ramoth is being racked.

1: Maps will still be viewable on the openstreetmap.org homepage and
on other people’s websites.

Sincerely
Grant Slater
On behalf of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team.

[Lambertus]

I took the liberty to highlight the most important section of the message. Hope you don’t mind Mike.

Thanks for the heads-up!