Mercury content freeze: Friday-Monday, September 23-27, 2016 (New dates)

Who this impacts

Anyone who uses the Georgia Tech Mercury content syndication system.

When it occurs (dates changed to below)

  • Starts at: 9 am on Friday, September 23rd, 2016
  • Ends at: 12 noon on Monday, September 26th, 2016
  • Update: Now continues through 9 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27

What is happening

A "content freeze" for the Mercury system.

This means that any content (news, events, etc.) already in Mercury will remain available, for your websites to display. During this time, though, you will not be able to log in to the Mercury site, and cannot add new content or change existing content.

Why it is needed

This freeze allows us to move Mercury into a newer version of its underlying software, on a server that can better handle large amounts of content and web traffic. It also gives us a foundation on top of which we can build improvements.

How to prepare

Check your calendars and have all important content entered and updated in Mercury (hg.gatech.edu) before 9 am that Friday.

You can help: Volunteer!

Before the migration, we need help testing two kinds of tasks:

  1. Importing content from the new Mercury to your websites (using either hg_reader or local node imports.) You will want to use a test copy of your site, since you don't want to risk your live site messing up.
  2. Adding content to the new Mercury (no test site copy required).

*If you would like to volunteer, please email a grateful Adelle Frank with which task(s) you want to help test.