Hello all,
I updated our php-packages at the linux-hosts few minutes ago (see [1]
for details).
The update happened without announcement because it was critical and I
very doubt that the update would break anything.
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1343
Hello all,
the WMF had some problems with one for their servers (db45).
Unfortunately that’s the server we replicate s5 and wikidata of. Nosy
fixed s5 already, but for wikidata it looks not that good – AFAIS a
re-import is needed.
For that reason I will stop the s5-replication
WEDNESDAY, 20:00 UTC
to create a dump and use Thursday to import wikidata everywhere again.
You can follow the process at [1].
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1336
Hi all!
Just a short notice to invite you to the workshop taking place at
Wikimania in Hongkong from 7th to 11th of August 2013:
There will be a 90 minutes workshop (2x45 min) on Saturday August 10th
from 16:00 to 17:30:
Part 1: Presenting the Tool Labs
Part 2: Migrating from the Toolserver to Tool Labs
The makers of Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs will explain the
infrastructure and answer your questions.
If you are at Wikimania, drop in! I'd be glad to meet you!
If you have a full schedule at Wikimania and won't make it to the
workshop come talk to me at WMDE's booth or whereever you see me.
Best, Silke
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Hello,
I have to enhane the networking for one of the xen hosts.
That for I need to reconfigure the corresponding switch and network config of the host.
This means the s2 database cluster will not be avaible for some time - worst case 2 hours.
I will do this tomorrow, Wednesday 19:00 UTC - 21:00 UTC.
Cheers
Marlen/nosy
Hello guys,
to prevent another problem with nginx and toolserver.org I plan to
change something in our nginx-setup. For this I hereby announce a
downtime of toolserver.org for
WEDNESDAY, 14:00 UTC.
The downtime should be less than 15 minutes.
You can find details at [1].
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1332
Hello,
I need to move the user-store on Toolserver back to the original machine hemlock.
This will cause some short interruptions of the service and may even impact bots and web space tools.
Additionally this will mean some short offline time for the OSM Wikipedia Map.
This will happen
tomorrow (Friday), 19:00 - 21:00
Cheers
Marlen/nosy
Hello all,
the copies of wikidata at daphne (commons) and z-dat-s2-b (s2) are so
outdated that the WMF has no masterlogs for them anymore. To fix this I
will dump a copy of wikidata from s7 and reimport it. I plan to do this on
FRIDAY, 14:00 UTC.
During the dump the replication of wikidata at s7 will stop. During the
import at z-dat-s2-b and daphne there will be not wikidata at these
hosts. I have no idea how long the hole thing will take, but you can
follow the progress at [1].
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1327
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Hello,
the new LDAP service is ready and will be switched on tomorrow.
This will happen at
Friday (tomorrow), 19:00 UTC - 21:00 UTC
short offline times for services like ssh, mail and web are to be expected.
Cheers
Marlen/nosy
Hello all,
amette reported yesterday that he found the problem with our
JIRA-installation and created a quick-fix to solve it. As far as I see
everything seems to works again. Give him some cheering!
Please be so nice and do some testing too in JIRA, close bugs that were
fixed and create new ones if you find a problem.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello guys,
I just extended my personal account until 5. January of 2014 – it is the last
time I do this. At this day I will also remove my access as root of the
Toolserver. Beginning of 1. July I will start my fade out, doing less and less
work for the Toolserver until I am not longer visible. I announce that this
early because I think it is fair for you to know that will happen and I like
not just to vanish like some roots before.
There are 4 main factors why I decided to not continue my work until the end
of the Toolserver in December 2014.
Reason 1 is that the Toolserver now has a second paid root and 6 months will
be enough to teach amette and nosy what I know about the Toolserver.
Reason 2 is that there was no real investment in the Toolserver in the first 6
months of 2013 and I very doubt that there will ever be any in the second half
or beyond.
Reason 3 is that I learned during the last weekend that the support of the
Toolserver in the board of WMDE reached its minimum.
One board-member announced publicly during the general meeting of WMDE that it
is good that there is a timetable for the Toolserver now – I know only 1
timetable for the Toolserver and that’s Silke’s <s>plan of destruction</s>
roadmap for migration [1].
Another board-member told me during a chatting in the halls that ToolLabs (or
the move to) is "klasse" (~great).
It is impossible to improve the Toolserver against the CEO *and* the board of
WMDE.
Reason 4 are you, the tool-authors.
The participation in my survey [2] was pitiful low and the majority of these
few who voted, voted to leave the Toolserver as soon as possible or this year
– a trend that was already visible on the mailing-list before. So I conclude
that the most of you don’t care and whose care will leave this year.
While I asked for documentation (or at least correction) in the toolserver-
wikis for years, nearly nothing ever happened. But now that ToolLabs is on the
horizon you write documentation for THAT – freely.
And it is really a joke to compare the empty new database-servers of ToolLabs
with our old and heavy loaded servers for performance. Let’s see how fast they
are if 10 slow queries, which had run for hours, run in parallel.
With very few exceptions none of you helped to protect the Toolserver against
ToolLabs; all you were interested in was that ToolLabs provides the same
environment so your tools can continue to run there. When I read such phrases
like "we have to stabilize the Toolserver until Labs is ready" or now "we need
the Toolserver for redirects to ToolLabs" I could vomit!
I promised in November 2012 that I will stay for another year and I will
fulfill that promise – but not a day longer. There is no point in fighting for
something if the something has already surrendered and no support is there
(not from you, the toolusers, the board of WMDE, the CEO of WMDE or the
general meeting of WMDE).
These of you who are able to move to ToolLabs I wish luck. Let’s hope that the
WMF does not decide to "re-focus" again too soon. Let’s hope that the WMF does
not disable tools just because there are a little slow. Let’s hope that the
WMF does not restrict the database-tables even more. Let’s hope that the WMF
does not kick the volunteers out completely some days like they did with the
WMF-wiki-admins some weeks ago. And hoping is all we can do, because the WMF
is a undemocratic construct and ToolLabs is lead by paid roots, so whatever
the WMF staff decides will happen.
Maybe if one of these things happen you will remember the tiny, slow,
unstable, but free Toolserver — but it will not be there anymore.
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en
[2] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Labs-Moving-Survey
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