Hello all,
I just got back from the general member meeting of Wikimedia Deutschland. As
you know I requested a decision about the future of the toolserver there. To
make it short: It doesn't went as well as I hoped. While the request itself
was accepted, it was changed in some important parts.
The main fear was that WMF could stop to provide us with fresh dumps and/or
replication in near future, making the toolserver more or less useless.
Although I learned from a participating WMF-board-member that no such board-
decision exists.
My request was changed in the following way: The WMF has to tell WMDE within 6
months how Wikilabs can replace the toolserver in the promised complete way.
If the answer is not satisfying, WMDE will develop a "Governance-Model" to
ensure the continuation of the toolserver. Different groups are invited into
this "Governance-Model" and it should be done until the end of 2013.
That sounds good on the first view, but there are 2 loop-holes: Nobody defined
what "complete" or "satisfying" is. In my eyes Wikilabs can not replace the
toolserver complete (in the way that all tools can move to there) and so the
answer can only be unsatisfying, but that's just a question of definition I
guess.
A second change was that the investment for the toolserver will be restricted
to the "necessary". While that is of course a matter of definition again I'm
sure that means "no new hardware if it is possible in any way".
To summarize this: In the best case we have to wait for 6 months until WMDE
officially learns that Wikilabs can not replace us, than wait for another 6
months until they will create their "Governance-Model" and in 2014 we get new
hardware.
In worst case we wait for 6 months and than WMDE and WMF agree that everything
is ok and we will never get any new hardware and somewhen the TS will shut
down (of course with the remaining tools that can not migrated to Wikilabs).
I can not imagine ways between both cases, but I'm sure they exists. In any
way we will get no (or nearly no) new hardware in 2013 – so we have to life
with that.
A good news is that the toolserver will get 3 new database-servers soon.
I have not decided yet if I will remain as root under this circumstances for
2013 – I will tell you my decision until next Sunday.
For now I will head to bed because I'm exhausted and disappointed. See you
tomorrow.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello all,
the HA-node turnera needs a reboot quite badly (it is very low on memory). It
should be no problem to reboot it (because the other node (damiana) should
overtake everything), but you can never be to sure enough. Therefor I hereby
announce a downtime-window of 15 minutes for tomorrow
Tuesday, 27th, 21:15 UTC.
Normally you should notice nothing, but in worst case the toolserver will be
down/unavailable until turnera rebooted completely.
When the reboot of turnera is done, I will also reboot nightshade which has a
very high load since we moved the stuff from thyme to rosemary. This also
should not take longer than 15 minutes. Please make sure to have no open files
on this box around the reboot.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello all,
I will switch sql-s1-rr from thyme to rosemary and back after
19:00 UTC this evening.
You should notice no difference, but everything at sql-s1 will be a little bit
slower while sql-s1-rr is on rosemary (and all queries running on thyme will
be killed).
The background of the switches is that I finally extracted the mysql-files from
the wmf-binary dump and so I can re-setup thyme now with an unbroken version
of s1. If everything works as planed I will handle rosemary during the next
week too, so the hole s1-cluster will be unbroken again.
Just to let you know.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello,
the service processors of wolfsbane and thyme need to be updated.
They will be shutdown before the update.
This means enwiki-rr and a webserver and the user-store and osm-tiles will not be available for 15-30 minutes.
I will do this work starting at
Sun 11th November 20pm UTC until Sun 21pm UTC
Kind regards
Marlen/nosy
Hello all,
after Wikidata last week, the second new wiki-family arrived on the toolserver
today: Wikivoyage; and in 7 differed flavors (see [1] for details)!
I hope you all create many new tools for them – let us help to be Off to See
the World.
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1277
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