[outages] Fwd: [ADMIN] TRACKER.OUTAGES.ORG Planned Maintenance Friday (12/7/2012) from 12:00PM to 14:00PST.

[virendra rode]

We have successfully upgraded to 2.6.1.

Major high-level fixes:
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- Security updates
- UTF8 fixes
- Fix PHP errors when signing up for mobile alerts
- KML overlay
- Faster (graph) rendering

I want to personally thank Ushahidi development community for giving me 
a hand specially Ajay who can code w/ his eyes shut, amazes me every 
single time.

Since KML overlay has been fixed with 2.6 release, tracker now 
plots/tracks crisis landing spots (thanks google!), check it out its 
pretty cool.

Hope you like it. Feedback is welcome!


regards,
/virendra

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [outages] [ADMIN] TRACKER.OUTAGES.ORG Planned Maintenance 
Friday (12/7/2012) from 12:00PM to 14:00PST.
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:47:04 -0800
From: virendra rode <virendra.rode at outages.org>
Reply-To: virendra.rode at outages.org
To: outages at outages.org <outages at outages.org>

Type of Work: Ushahidi plaform upgrade from 2.5 to 2.6.1.

Purpose: To address bug fixes.

Start Date / Time:       12/7/2012 (Friday) 12:00PM PST
End Date / Time:         12/7/2012 (Friday) 14:00 PST

Should additional time be required, notice will be provided and the work
window will be expanded.

Estimate Downtime: tracker.outages.org will be down 2 hours

Reason For Maintenance: Ushahidi platform will undergo upgrade from 2.5
to 2.6.1 to address bug fixes.

Service Impact: tracker.outages.org will not be available during this
change window nor users will receive any alert notifications during this
change. Service will return back to normal after this upgrade.


Steps for this upgrade:
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1. Backup DB & filesystem (mysqldump / tar working directory)

2. wget ushahidi from github repository

3. Copy old config back over the new ones.

4. Update config.php, database.php, auth.php as necessary to match
previous configuration details.

5. Upgrade database

Regression Planning: There is a possibility that something unexpected
may occur during the work process. Should any issues arise, all
equipment will be placed back into standard operation and the work will
be postponed until the issue is resolved.



regards,
/virendra
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