Toolserver-announce April 2013

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Maintenance cassia s5-rr
by Marlen Caemmerer 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Hello, I will move dewiki for cassia off the SAN back to the local storage. This will happen on Friday, 3rd May 1900-2100 UTC I will take this copy of s5-rr offline but due to the other copy of s5-rr you will probably not experience downtime but slower answers. Kind regards Marlen/nosy

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Tool Labs: Summary of Feedback on the Draft for the Roadmap
by Silke Meyer 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hi all! Let me shortly summarize the comments on the roadmap's discussion pages: There were no comments about the actual roadmap but feedback concerning these two topics: 1) What's going to migrate and what isn't? * Until now, it's not clear which tools will not be able to move. Or which maintainers might decide not to move and why. People are curious about this but tool maintainers would have to talk about it for us to find out. 2) Bad Tool Labs experience: * How fast is the account creation process right now? A tool maintainer reported that he spontaneously had some time to think about migrating. He requested an account but then waited for two weeks to get it. For people working on tools in their spare time this is too long. * Documentation has to be improved! Good overviews are needed as well as a detailed documentation of everything relevant to working in Tool Labs. * An example: You get strange messages and can't find any information on them, e.g. this one: "Your user rights were changed by Andrew Bogott. You are now a member of this group: shell. Learn more". By clicking onto it, you get a list of permissions: "loginviashell". There is a red link pointing to "Wikitech:Shell". The user is confused. * Who is responsible for documentation? (I'm not sure I answered this correctly: It's not clear to me how much the Tool Labs docs overlap with general Labs docs and who is responsible for that part. Or is the Tool Labs documentation isolated from the rest???) Cheers, Silke 2013/4/19 Silke Meyer <silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de>: > Hi all! > > As you know Wikimedia Deutschland has the mandate to create a roadmap > for the availability of features on Wikimedia Labs / Tool Labs that are > currently available on the Toolserver until the next membership assembly > (May 25th). I have worked on this for the last weeks and now published a > draft. I would like to get your feedback on this draft to make sure it > is sound and nothing vital is missing. The current version is not final > but hopefully very close to what will be presented at the membership > assembly next month. > > The plan has been drafted in close cooperation with the responsible > people at the Wikimedia Foundation. It still needs a final ok from them > though. > > You can find the drafts at: > > English version: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en > > German version: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_de > > To not spread out discussions too far please use the discussion pages of > the above two pages for comments, suggestions and corrections. > > Cheers, Silke > > -- > Silke Meyer > Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. (030) 219 158 260 > > http://wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt > für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Maintenance: more disk space for s7
by Marlen Caemmerer 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hello, I will add more disk space for s7 next Wednesday 23rd April 1900-2200 UTC I suppose to have completed in 1.5 hours. Kind regards Marlen/nosy

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Maintenance: moving data of s1-user / rosemary
by Marlen Caemmerer 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hello, s1-user / rosemary will quite soon run out of space. Thus I will move everything except enwiki itself onto a SAN partition. This will happen next Friday 26st Apr 1900 - 2200 UTC I suppose to have everything back online within one hour in this time frame. Please not that s1-user will not be available during the move. Kind regards, Marlen/nosy

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Draft online: Roadmap for the setup of Tool Labs and the migration from Toolserver
by Silke Meyer 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi all! As you know Wikimedia Deutschland has the mandate to create a roadmap for the availability of features on Wikimedia Labs / Tool Labs that are currently available on the Toolserver until the next membership assembly (May 25th). I have worked on this for the last weeks and now published a draft. I would like to get your feedback on this draft to make sure it is sound and nothing vital is missing. The current version is not final but hopefully very close to what will be presented at the membership assembly next month. The plan has been drafted in close cooperation with the responsible people at the Wikimedia Foundation. It still needs a final ok from them though. You can find the drafts at: English version: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en German version: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_de To not spread out discussions too far please use the discussion pages of the above two pages for comments, suggestions and corrections. Cheers, Silke -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Restart of z-dat-s1-b (sql-s1-rr), z-dat-s2-b (sql-s2) and z-dat-s5-b (sql-5-user) TODAY
by DaB. 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hello all, I will piggyback Marlen’s window today to reboot the linux-database-servers for changing their IPs to the new range too. You can follow the progress at [1]. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1317 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Re: [Toolserver-announce] [Toolserver-l] Failed Maintenance - was - Re: IP Renumbering of the complete Toolserver cluster
by Marlen Caemmerer 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hello, I want to do the maintenance of damiana, turnera, ortelius and wolfsbane starting tomorrow, 1800 UTC. I hope to finish until 2200 UTC but I cant tell exactly so I have to leave the end open. Cheers Marlen/nosy

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Reminder: Information on Tool Labs/ Your help needed
by Silke Meyer 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hello! As you might know, Wikimedia Foundation is building a cloud-based infrastructure (Labs/Tool Labs) that - in the long run - will be a replacement for the toolserver. Don't worry! The toolserver will be not just be switched off. WMF and WMDE would like to support you as much as possible when it comes to migrating tools. You can see the current status of features on [1]. We will publish a road map giving more details and dates in the second half of this month. Tool Labs is not ready yet right now, but it will be - most probably in the months, partly in the weeks to come. (Though we know that unpredictable stuff can happen and there are open questions left.) Looking at the List of Tools [2], I would like to thank all tool maintainers that have contributed to gathering information about tools currently running on the toolserver. Thanks a lot to early adopters, too, who are helping to test Tool Labs! Quite a lot of tools that I added based on information in jira and tswiki are still lacking information on dependencies and licenses. I am especially intrigued about the number of non-free tools on the toolserver because Labs, Tool Labs, the Bots/webservices project all accept software under OSI-approved licenses only. So, if you haven't added your tools to the list yet or you find it added incompletely by someone else, please edit the list at [2]! Here is what I'm asking you to do: * Please check if your tools are on the list (correctly). * Please fill in your software dependencies, data dependencies, use patterns (are they running continously? or webservices? Batch runs? etc.), the license. * If you have not given your software an explicit license, please note that only free software can migrate to Labs. Consider putting your stuff under a free license. (as in OSI-approved) * If you have already migrated your bot or tool to Labs and it is in the list, please say so in the last column "status". * If your toolserver account has expired and/or your tool is not active on the toolserver right now, please add it to the second table at the bottom of the page. In the last column write that it is not running currently and if you want to revive it. If you are considering to revive it, please fill in all the details, too, so that your needs will be taken into account. * Please follow the toolserver-announce list for more information to come. Thanks for your help! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me, to ask on toolserver-l and/or on labs-l. Cheers, Silke [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Toolserver_features_needed_in_… [2] List of Tools: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Toolserver/List_of_Tools -- Silke Meyer Systemadministratorin und Projektassistenz Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur FÃ¶rderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnÃ¼tzig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt fÃ¼r KÃ¶rperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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IP Renumbering of the complete Toolserver cluster
by Marlen Caemmerer 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hello, Toolserver needs a complete change of the officially assigned IP addresses. Every accessible service will be involved. This involves several maintenances that will cause interruptions. The maintenances will also cause interuptions for OSM. To see if everything comes up correctly reboots will be necessary on all regarding servers. I will start with parallel IP setup at the load balancers/head nodes damiana and turnera. I will do this next Thursday, 28th March 20-22 h UTC. The next maintenances will involve the login servers, web and mail servers. They will happen at Friday, 29th March 20 - 22h UTC and Sunday, 31th March 20 - 22h UTC. I hope everything will work after that. Cheers nosy/Marlen

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Adding of 2 operators
by DaB. 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hello all, the users apmon and timl <s>were now damned to do all the boring stuff in future</s> were promoted to Operators to help the roots. Apmon will also put the needed OSM-configs into our puppet-system to make it possible to setup a new OSM-Server. You can find the belonging ticket at [1]. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1313 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Toolserver-announce April 2013