Hello,
tomorrow will be hardware maintenance for toolserver.
It will be between 11 am - 20 pm UTC.
Several hosts may be offline for a little while during this time - especially daphne (s4) and hyacinth (s3, s6 and s7).
They get some hardware replacements.
The OSM host ptolemy might go offline for new hardware, too.
Cheers
Marlen/nosy
Hello all,
Dispenser messaged me because the query
explain select * from enwiki_p.revision limit 1;
isn't working anymore. As far as I see that's caused by the recent mysql-
update. We need to patch this but it may take a few days and another mysql-
restart (will be announced separately).
You can follow the progress at [1].
Just to let you known.
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1585
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Hello,
we will update the Solaris systems between 8pm and 10pm UTC on Sunday.
The servers (ortelius, willow, clematis, hawthorn, wolfsbane, damiana, turnera, ptolemy) may also be rebooted if recommended by the update.
Kind regards
Marlen / nosy
Hello,
MySQL needs a security update and we had none anyway for a while.
This means we will update MySQL on Friday 8pm - 10 pm UTC.
During this time the databases will restart at least once.
Kind regards
Marlen/nosy
Hello all,
I just got back from the general member meeting of Wikimedia Deutschland. As
you know I requested a decision about the future of the toolserver there. To
make it short: It doesn't went as well as I hoped. While the request itself
was accepted, it was changed in some important parts.
The main fear was that WMF could stop to provide us with fresh dumps and/or
replication in near future, making the toolserver more or less useless.
Although I learned from a participating WMF-board-member that no such board-
decision exists.
My request was changed in the following way: The WMF has to tell WMDE within 6
months how Wikilabs can replace the toolserver in the promised complete way.
If the answer is not satisfying, WMDE will develop a "Governance-Model" to
ensure the continuation of the toolserver. Different groups are invited into
this "Governance-Model" and it should be done until the end of 2013.
That sounds good on the first view, but there are 2 loop-holes: Nobody defined
what "complete" or "satisfying" is. In my eyes Wikilabs can not replace the
toolserver complete (in the way that all tools can move to there) and so the
answer can only be unsatisfying, but that's just a question of definition I
guess.
A second change was that the investment for the toolserver will be restricted
to the "necessary". While that is of course a matter of definition again I'm
sure that means "no new hardware if it is possible in any way".
To summarize this: In the best case we have to wait for 6 months until WMDE
officially learns that Wikilabs can not replace us, than wait for another 6
months until they will create their "Governance-Model" and in 2014 we get new
hardware.
In worst case we wait for 6 months and than WMDE and WMF agree that everything
is ok and we will never get any new hardware and somewhen the TS will shut
down (of course with the remaining tools that can not migrated to Wikilabs).
I can not imagine ways between both cases, but I'm sure they exists. In any
way we will get no (or nearly no) new hardware in 2013 – so we have to life
with that.
A good news is that the toolserver will get 3 new database-servers soon.
I have not decided yet if I will remain as root under this circumstances for
2013 – I will tell you my decision until next Sunday.
For now I will head to bed because I'm exhausted and disappointed. See you
tomorrow.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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