Toolserver-l September 2013

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Maintenance for DB cluster s2 : Resetup of commons
by Marlen Caemmerer 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Hello, the copy of the commons database in the s2 database cluster is broken - it is missing tables. I have to get a copy of commons, drop the old commons copy and reinsert it. I will drop and reinsert it starting on Friday, 13th Sept 7 pm UTC Cheers Marlen/nosy

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outbound data [was Re: Hem hem... PLEASE let's move forward!]
by Luis Villa 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Silke Meyer <silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de>wrote: > > For non-libre projects I would like to come back to what Ryan wrote: > > Or people are free to move them to infrastructure that isn't funded by > the donations to a movement that has Open Content as one of the five > pillars <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_free_content>. > The tools and bots that keep this content alive and free are in my opinion > an extension of that pillar. > > > > I'm more than happy to recommend a number of cloud services and am more > than willing to give advice on how to configure and run tools and bots from > those services. It's even possible to reuse the work we're doing in the > tools project, or in the Wikimedia infrastructure via our puppet repository > since our infrastructure is Open Source. > > Ryan, Luis, could you write a bit more about whether it would be ok > (technically and legally) to run database queries in Tool Labs and send > them to an external server where a proprietary tool runs? Is that a no > go? An exception? Is it totally fine? No concerns from legal side - the same privacy protections that are already in place should be enough to handle this use case. [We of course have to monitor and make sure we're doing the right things, privacy-wise, but that was already the case anyway.] Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: *This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*

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Cron
by John 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Looks like cron is down again

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Maintenance: Solaris Updates
by Marlen Caemmerer 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hello, next week there will be Solaris updates done by Alex Mette and me. This means web servers, willow and submit/mail servers will be updated. We will do this on Wednesday, 11th Sept 7-10 pm UTC. Cheers Marlen/nosy

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Toolserver-l September 2013