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10pm downtime? Really?


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I've only read though about a third of the thread so perhaps it's already been mentioned, but to me, this is BW hedging their bets, for good reason.

 

This is not some small patch, it's a major update. Sure, they planned for 8 hrs, but it wouldn't be unheard of for it to take 4, or maybe 10, or 12 even. So if it starts at 8am BST/9am CEST (which is 2am CDT) and is expected to go 8 hrs, then we're talking 4pm/5pm for a nominal downtime. But if it goes an extra 2 to 4 hrs, then they're well into Europe's primetime.

 

That extra 2 hrs they're giving themselves would lessen the impact if it happens, and to me, that's good contingency planning--which is what any good engineer would know.

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/sarcasm Well, apparently this post worked because the next patch is set for 12am Pacific. Whew. Don't know what would have happened had he not alerted the devs to the error or their ways. Heck, it could have cycled all the way back to 6pm Pacific had the trend continued for another 2 months.

 

/end sarcasm.

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