Rollout Procedure
Pick a time and date that is reasonable for rollout - late as night, weekends, TBD
Set up a page notifying "Site down for maintenance". Should aways be available (even though Tomcat /Databases/etc go down)
"Maintenance Friendly Time Frame": Friday 5PM Hawaii to Mon 8 AM NY.
Notify Marge about this.
Setup the email list to reach the users. Bob will likely compile the list.
Testing
Tibi work out with Bob some more tests. - off-line
Get Tom J to send some test cases for the Perl code in Cosmic, to benchmark/improve execution.
Backups
Allocate funds for backup hardware
Marge suggest that UFlorida might contribute, or maybe Fermi would share some resources
Development environment for developers
Live Tomcat server
Development servers
Try using first using the Argonne development machine.
-- Main.TiberiuStefPraun - 28 Mar 2007