[Labs-l] current situation with replicated databases in Labs

Mon Mar 4 17:40:04 UTC 2013

Clarifications - the additional storage that has been ordered for labs user
data is not solid state, our challenges are technical not legal, and Peter
and I are not working on providing databases directly to labs users.  The
systems we are building will be delivered to the labs engineering team
(Ryan, Andrew) who have to integrate them with labs, sorting out
authentication, automating the creation and deletion of project grants
and databases, etc.

On Sunday, March 3, 2013, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

> I talked with Peter Youngmeister about this on Friday and wanted to
> report to you about the current status -- Peter, please correct me if
> I'm wrong.
>
> The hardware is set up and the OS installed.  Asher Feldman altered
> plans: there will be writable tables alongside the replicated DBs, as
> bots/tools makers have requested, but that means we needed to order more
> hardware - external SSDs.  That dependency, however, is not something
> that should block things or further delay the DB replication.
>
> Peter and Asher are going to sprint together early this week and get to
> the point where WMF's legal folks and technical architecture experts can
> look at the plans -- especially *which specific columns need to be
> redacted for privacy protection* -- and approve.  Once that happens, I
> believe Asher and Peter will be able to work without blockers and will
> be able to get Labs users the ability to access replicated Wikimedia
> databases.  I am, however, not super-clear on the estimate for how much
> time that final step will take.
>
> If Peter and Asher run into bottlenecks while getting responses from
> Legal, Tim Starling, or others, they can ask me to poke. :-)
>
> Peter, how inaccurate is that? :)
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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