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Planned Maintenance Tomorrow Morning (Short Downtime, Impacting Gemini Only)

Summary: Impending network upgrades (optical fibre at home) will cause some disruptions, loss of productivity and a short downtime tomorrow, but hopefully this will be the last of it all

Last week's planned migration to optical fibre did not go ahead as planned; or could not be completed. As a result, tomorrow morning we have another slot or maintenance window reserved (engineer appointment with Openeach). It hopefully won't result in more than 30 minutes of downtime for Gemini; I'll also be offline in the interim (IRC etc.) but much of the hard work is now behind us; the equipment is in place, it just needs to be properly wired and maybe the router will need to be reconfigured (maybe not; BT and Openreach give contradictory advice on that). Either way, let's hope tomorrow will be more productive than last week. Many of these mini-projects, including the IRC Wars, have taken up too much time and effort. We'd rather focus on articles than all those technical details, but setting up fallbacks and contingencies can be just as important as producing new stuff.



The investment in Gemini is already paying off. More and more people read Techrights over gemini:// because they recognise that simplicity is good, unlike complexity like Microsoft Office attachments and PDFs. All our software is in self-hosted Git (AGPLv3), but for now it is not publicly-accessible because further tidying up is still needed.

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