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  12/10/2022  

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Reminder
Clean-up of Version Control System users – phase 1 deadline on 15 October

As announced on 15 September, the clean-up exercise of the Version Control System users will deeply impact the access to the codebase of the sites hosted in DIGIT Drupal Hosting service and to the related tools Drone, CI/CD, NextCloud and Graylog.

To avoid access issues to the above-mentioned tools, please comply with these requirements by 15 October:

  • All users have to update their profile in GitHub and Gitlab with a proper name that allows to identify the person. Please avoid providing only nicknames.
  • All users have to ensure the email used in the EU Login service is properly registered and validated in their Github profile, as all invitations to projects will be automatically sent to the email associated to the EU Login account. In most cases, that email is the same as the one in the Jira account.
  • All project managers must report who are the developers working in their projects to the DIGIT Quality Assurance team by email (DIGIT-NEXTEUROPA-QA@ec.europa.eu). The report must contain the name of the repository and the EU Login username of the developer. In the case of projects hosted in dedicated clusters, the same information must be provided for deployers.

If you have any questions, you can contact DIGIT Quality Assurance team.

Planned maintenance
Maintenance impacting cloud sites on 19 October

Sites hosted in DIGIT Drupal cloud infrastructure (AWS) might be impacted by the upgrade of Web Linux hosts taking place on 19 October from 19.00 to 23.00. During that time frame:

  • each site might be down for five minutes.
  • it is recommended not to launch any deployment.
This is the newsletter of the Europa IT platform services managed by DG DIGIT.D1. It provides technical information to professionals involved in the creation and/or management of public information websites hosted under the europa.eu domain, in particular, those websites using the Europa Web Publishing Platform or Open Europa (based on Drupal technology) and related Webtools services.

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