[Labs-l] Hello, and the short term plans

Mon Feb 25 22:54:02 UTC 2013

One issue: Many of us have our hand-rolled "libraries" (that is, scripts
with often-used functions) shared between tools. If I understand correctly,
each tool will live in its own space, separate of all other tools. I would
not be a problem to just give every tool a copy of the library, but I can
see code diverging over time between copies. Will there be a way to share
code between tools, or should we use git for that?

Cheers,
Magnus

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:

> <futurama>Good news, everyone!</futurama>
>
> As many of you know, I officially started my duties today as the WMF
> Operations Engineer attached to the Tool Labs.  I intend to make a point of
> informing all of you of recent news, what I'm working on, and where I'm
> headed at regular intervals (probably weekly).
>
> First, a bit of news:  I have had confirmation this weekend that the DB
> replication made available to Tool Labs users will, in fact, allow the
> creation of databases alongside the project ones.  This means that one of
> the use cases that seemed the most troublesome in the transition (joins
> between the WMF databases and tool-specific ones) will be fully supported.
>
> We are making good strides in documenting the *impressive* inventory of
> tools that run on toolserver and their requirements (thanks, Silke!).  The
> list-in-progress can be found at [1].  If you see missing or incorrect
> information, please feel free to adjust it -- the more precisely we know
> the requirements, the faster we can see about meeting them.
>
> I've started documenting my preleminary design for the shiny new Tool Labs
> infrastructure at [2].  This is a living document, and will see a great
> deal of revision before it's over (and will serve as the seed for the
> documentation).  I will shortly create a new Labs project where that
> architecture is deployed in preproduction so we can shake out the kinks.
>  The existing projects, "bots" and "webtools" will be left active for the
> forseeable future until (a) the new architecture has proven itself and (b)
> every user has sucessfuly moved their tools to it.
>
> I'm planning on having the new project be fully operational for new tools
> by the time the Amsterdam Hackathon takes place at the end of May at the
> very least.
>
> For the next week, I'll be mostly in information-gathering mode, as well
> as refining the design and requirements of the Tool Labs.  Feel free to
> poke me for information (or /with/ information) by email or on IRC (where I
> am user 'Coren' and idle on #wikimedia-labs and #wikimedia-toolserve at the
> very least)
>
> -- Marc A. Pelletier
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Toolserver/List_of_Tools<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Toolserver/List_of_Tools>
> [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/**Design<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/Design>
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