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:
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(a)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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