Our next schema change version will be released on Monday, 17 November, 2014 around Noon PST/3pm EST/20:00 GMT/21:00 CET. We expect that MusicBrainz will be unavailable for 30 – 60 minutes during this time. We will put up the downtime notification on the site and tweet from @musicbrainz right before the release.
Sadly, our backup database server suffered a hardware failure and we ran out of time to get a replicated database setup after the hardware was fixed. This means that we won’t be able to put the site into read-only mode and will require us to take a full-downtime.
It sucks and we’re not happy about it either, but there is only so much we can accomplish with our limited resources. 😦
Sorry for any troubles this may cause you.
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Hey, would you folks post a working tut explaining how one actually applies this update please?