greetings ~teammates!

ubuntu 20.04 focal fossa is now nearing the first point release and is ready for us to upgrade.

i've been preparing a new vm for us with a couple long-term improvements that i've been thinking about for a while. here are the major changes:

- dedicated /home disk - we haven't had any actual issues here luckily but it will prevent any issues where a user accidentally fills a disk and chokes out the rest of the system

- fixing uids - at some point, the spamassassin package created a system user account with a uid > 1000 which threw off the user numbering into the 5000 range. i've renumbered user accounts on the new vm to remove that large jump

the upgrade (migration?) plan is as follows:

- initial hot copy of the live system with rsync - stop running services - second cold copy with rsync including mariadb dump - move IP addresses to new vm - reboot - profit?

i'll provide updates in #team (which you can access via webchat while ~team itself is down: https://kiwi.tilde.chat/#team) and post an update to our status page: https://status.tilde.team/

let's hope it all goes smoothly and we'll see you on the other side :)

note that bsd.tilde.team will not be affected and is a good place to use weechat from as well.

cheers, ~ben