Code push tonight

[denise]

A reminder to all that we will be doing a code push tonight. We'll be starting the prepwork in a few hours (around 6PM PDT/9PM EDT/1AM UTC), and the actual push itself will likely be an hour or two after that.

As I mentioned last time, this is a "higher risk" push. Sometimes we're only pushing frontend changes that have very little chance of causing site-wide problems, and any bugs we didn't catch in testing (because there are always bugs we don't catch in testing!) are only likely to be display bugs or the occasional weird error on a single page. This push has a lot of backend changes, though, and the differences between our production setup (the site itself) and our testing setup mean that there's a greater chance of things going a little wonky. (That's a technical term.)

So, there may be unexpected downtime as part of the push, and there may be weird site-wide errors after we come back up. We will be watching for them, and if they happen, we'll fix them as quickly as we can. Don't worry! We'll be on it.

Comments

Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[marahmarie]

OK, thanks for letting me know. The weird thing is, when I switch the CSS over to http://style-test.dreamwidth.org/read?show=C (my code-testing DW, which is already running an older version of my style using Transmog), the page background loads perfectly in Firefox, which leads me to believe it's not exactly my CSS at fault. I just checked my CSS at W3C, for what that's worth, and while it does have a bunch of "property doesn't exist" warnings for all the CSS3 I'm using, and a few for my @media CSS, nothing else is sticking out for me as The Problem. I'm thinking the only thing left for me to do is disable my custom theme layer and see if that fixes it (but what could be in that layer making this happen is anyone's guess; I haven't messed with it in weeks and besides, that Reading page was displaying the background fine right through last night).

Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[denise]

Did you clear your cache? Could be that the page loaded and wasn't able to reach the image host, then cached the bad version.

Re: Hi, Denise, an error possibly related to code push...

[marahmarie]

Yes, cleared cache, history, cookies, everything, multiple times on multiple Firefox re-starts. Disabled cache, cookies, and Javascript using Web Dev's tools to do so, re-started, blah blah blah. Just erased my theme layer, then did a hard refresh, yada yada. Nothing is helping/working/fixing it. Also used Web Dev to disable, one at a time, every style sheet I have in use (DW's and mine) and still got the same error. The same CSS on this DW works fine on style_test on the same page in question so considering I've disabled the theme layer on this DW and still get the same error? I am seriously stumped. I'm thinking at this point I'll just make a Support Request since I don't know what else to do.