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[Daniele Albrizio <albrizio AT units.it>]

Much appreciated, especially on this part of the year. Really thank you.

On 25/10/23 22:51, Tomasz Wolniewicz (via cat-users Mailing List) wrote:
> Perhaps we can just make the admin part unavailable for a while, while 
> keeping the user download part on-line.
>
> Tomasz
>
>
> W dniu 25.10.2023 o 22:31, Vlad Mencl pisze:
> > Hi Tomasz,
> >
> > Just wondering whether it might be worth having a read-only replica 
> > of CAT that could be used for maintenance like this.
> >
> > I understand it cannot be quickly stood up in time for this 
> > maintenance event - but while it's all fine to put the admin side of 
> > CAT off-line (no changes done over a time period), it might be 
> > beneficial to keep the user-facing part (downloading of profiles) 
> > going uninterrupted.
> >
> > At the very least to avoid getting bad reputation for "CAT not working".
> >
> > I run some of our services this way: where synchronising state would 
> > be too difficult and they are bound to a single master instance, 
> > there is a read-only replica to step in when the primary instance is 
> > under maintenance or otherwise unavailable.
> >
> > Is this something that can be considered?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vlad
> >
> >
> > On 26/10/23 08:59, Tomasz Wolniewicz (via cat-users Mailing List) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >    we are planning an update of the cat.eduroam.org site on Nov 2nd, 
> > > between 10 and 11 UTC. Since this is a fairly big update including 
> > > also the operating system, we will have to turn access off for some 
> > > time to run some final tests.
> > >
> > > I will send information about new features once we are done.
> > >
> > > Yours
> > >
> > > Tomasz Wolniewicz
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