Toolserver-l October 2011

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Re: [Toolserver-l] [Internal-l] toolserver
by Daniel Kinzler 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Toolserver Users As you have probably notices, things havn't been going to well with the toolserver lately. The main reason is that River is no longer available as much as before, and we do not have a replacement. DaB is doing what he can, but far too often, there's simply no one to fix things when they break. Also, our plans to buy more storage went on hold because of this situation, and so we are running out of disk space now. Which causes more things to break. So, what is Wikimedia Germany doing about this? Here is what: * Sebastian Sooth has taken charge of IT management at WMDE. He's way better at this stuff than me, so that will help. * We are hiring an interim admin. I hope we'll have the contract finalized by next week. * We will buy and install more storage. The new admin will plan that in coordination with DaB, Sebastian and me. Expect this to take at least 8 weeks before we have everything installed. * Meanwhile, we'll try to assess and fix any other issues that have piled up over the last couple of months. * In the process, we'll create and improve documentation of the cluster, so it becomes easier for people with access but little knowledge (like myself) to fix things when they break. * We will run a proper job offer for a payed toolserver admin. The idea is to eventually have two payed (part time) system admins. The job offer will be posted to toolserver-l. I know things havn't been for the best lately, but I believe we are getting a grip on the problem now. If you have any questions, please contact me. Regards, Daniel Kinzler Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6MP5kACgkQG0czJgig8U814wCdGX/SfM9CDivdFCN0Wt645C8e knQAn3lJLDO5RGBc2klYh7hjYcMsJwWc =9RPJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Sql-s2-replag and itwiki
by DaB. 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hello all, itwiki does some kind of strike at the moment and no edits happen. So if you use it for calculating the replag of the cluster S2 you will fail. I suggest a switch to nlwiki. Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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sql-s1-userr no longer have commons
by DaB. 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hello all, today the sql-partion on thyme (the server which hosts sql-s1-user) finaly became full so replication was not longer possible. The German Verein works on a solution to expand the disc-capazity but that will take some time. As interim-solution, I dropped the copy of commons on thyme. So that reason it will not longer be possible to join enwiki with commons AND a user-database. If you need to join enwiki with commons you can still use sql-s1-rr and if you need to join enwiki with a user-database you can still use sql-s1-user. I will try to setup federation to fix this, but I'm not sure if it will works. Sincerly, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Outage
by John 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

I cannot log into nightshade or wolfsbane, toolserver.org is down and so is my web content, however JIRA is still up. John

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