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- Have folks tried out Hawthorn? How has it been so far?
- We plan on having a Hawthorn Day to try out the new release on July 30th 2pm EDT/18:00 UTC and conclude the next day at 2pm EDT/18:00 UTC
- Reminder that we have a list of open INCR issues that give a person unfamiliar with the Open edX codebase to start contributing quickly.
- Including a new ops related epic:
Jira Legacy server System JIRA serverId 13fd1930-5608-3aac-a5dd-21b934d3a4b4 key INCR-25
- Including a new ops related epic:
- edX testing AWS Aurora as a MySQL alternative.
- edX recently updated the ability to put the LMS and CMS in maintenance mode.
- The previously functionality was buggy and only really worked for edX.
- The new functionality should work for anyone who can serve their maintenance page from S3.
- Playbook to manage maintenance: https://github.com/edx/configuration/blob/master/playbooks/edx_maintenance.yml