On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:54:13 -0500, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF
Roadmap and
Deployments update.
See the full roadmap for next week and beyond here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_3rd
Some important call outs:
== Monday ==
The migration of WMF Labs from pmtpa to eqiad begins
* new instance creation disabled in pmtpa, only available in eqiad
* See the emails from Andrew and Marc for more details:
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http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002152.html
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http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002153.html
Oh my giddy aunt, was there a brain fade among all the communications
around this matter. Didn't someone think that the jargon of "pmtpa" and
"eqiad" needed some explanation? In retrospect do you think that the
statement "new instance creation disabled in pmtpa, only available in
eqiad" is going to make sense to 99.9% of the eyes around the wikis where
we are 'ambassadors'?
For those who are among the unwashed (like me) these are two different
sites at which Wikimedia hosts servers, so it is a server/location
migration. Not an operating system, a type of server, or a new server
dental floss, or anything else equally bizarre. I am still not certain what
it actually all means and I pity poor Coren when I manage to find and nag
him. :-)
Regards, Billinghurst (still somewhat gobsmacked)