Arturo wasn't around at the time but I've done some digging and found some of the original discussion along with a public summary on the predecessor of this list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-February/003399.html
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 19:13, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Arturo,
Out of curiosity, why was Debian chosen as the sole flavor of Linux to offer? I see the reference to that decision on the page that you linked, but not an an explanation of that decision.
Thanks!
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:34 AM Arturo Borrero Gonzalez < aborrero@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi!
We would like to share some information regarding Wikimedia Cloud Services plans for deprecating Ubuntu, specially Trusty.
Ubuntu Trusty's end-of-life is April 2019 and the WMF decided to consolidate in a single operating system, which is Debian.
In Cloud VPS, projects containing Ubuntu virtual machine instances have been contacted by means of a Phabricator task. Toolforge users aren't affected by this right now, because Toolforge itself is currently running Trusty. But we are already working on the next, Debian-based, Toolforge version.
All this information, more details (and timelines), can be found on this Wikitech page:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Trusty_deprecation
Please, let us know any question or doubt you may have.
Best regards.
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