Upcoming web platform upgrade

The web and sysadmin team have tentatively scheduled an upgrade of the www.postgresql.org platform for this sunday, Nov 27th.

This change includes a complete rewrite of the underlying technology behind the site, with the intention to make it more flexible to work with, and to provide better services to users. It does not change the layout of the site in any way.

The most visible things to users at this point is going to be that those who submit news and events are now able to make smaller modifications to them after they are submitted, and will be able to view which of their events are in the pending moderation queue and such things. Submitted texts will also no longer require/support HTML markup, but instead we will use a simple markdown parser.

While we have done a fairly large amount of testing on the site, there are likely to be a number of issues - since we simply don't have enough resources to test everything. Because of this, please expect some hiccups at the beginning of next week - and thanks for helping us test it :-) If there are major issues, we will obviously roll back.

There are also a few things that need to be manually adjusted after the migration, such as dealing with companies that are currently in our database under several different names with just slightly different spelling. This process is probably going to take a few days - please have patience.

Any content (news, events, services etc) that is submitted to the current site before the migration will be automatically migrated to the new one.

Anyway - there's your heads-up. If you notice issues after the migration, you can find the web team hanging out in #postgresql on freenode - please report your problems there, and we will try our hardest to get them solved as quickly as possible.

//Magnus