19 Oct
Tales of an upgrade weekend
When you’re doing a major software upgrade, there’s lots of work, and lots of waiting.
Some of the folks who will be testing the upgrade chat while they wait:
Iris made sure she came prepared:
Others catch up on sleep:
When you work through the night, you see the sunrise from the wrong side:
Once the upgrade is complete, it’s time to log in and make sure everything works:
Some people are a little more comfortable than others:
In the end, the major portion of the upgrade was completed by about 11am. Then a few of us spent a few more hours Saturday and Sunday finishing things that got missed, cleaning up things that broke, and making sure we were ready for Monday morning when all the users come back and need to use the system.