Dear all!
As promised in December, I scheduled an IRC office hour to discuss the
status of migration from the Toolserver to Tool Labs. Let's collect all
to dos, all questions or/and open tickets that are important to you.
When?
Thursday, Jan 23rd 2014, from 18:00 to 19:00 *UTC*
Where?
#wikimedia-office on freenode
Who?
You ;)
Sumana Harihareswara (WMF)
Marc-Andre Pelletier aka Coren (WMF / Tool Labs)
Tomasz Finc and Alexandros Kosiaris (WMF / looking into the OSM setup)
me
The discussion will be logged.
If you cannot attend just send me your questions beforehand!
See you soon, Silke
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Silke Meyer
Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 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.
Hi, can we have a list of all the accounts that expired in the Big
Catastrophic Deadline of the 6th (and have no redirects to other places,
maybe)? We're bound to have hundreds of dead tools in this moment and
I'd like to avoid chasing them individually.
Nemo
P.s.: Thanks erwin for renewing the account! Those tools are crucial for
stewards. But he still needs help, only 3/14 work on Labs without major
changes. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Erwin#Tool_Labs
Hello folks,
as announced at 16. November I retired as root today.
Normally you write in such mails that you are sad now and that you had a
great time while it lasted. But I’m glad that it is over.
Don’t get me wrong: There were times when the work was great and most
times the work was even fun. But there were also several times
(especially in the last 2 years) when the Toolserver was horror. WMDE
didn’t invest enough money, WMF found new problems with the TS, hardware
was broken or the users (both authors and tool-users) were ignorant or
impatient.
If I had knew in autumn 2011 how the Toolserver would developing in the
coming years, I had not overtake as main root. I learned the hard way,
that it doesn’t matter how much work and time you invest if the
leadership (WMDE and WMF) work against you; and the members of WMDE and
the Wikipedians (at least in deWP) were no great help either.
I learned many things (in technical and political sense), met nice
persons and helped to give the Wikimedia-universe some great tools,
that’s the positive side I take with me now. I’m sure that I will miss
the Toolserver and its users from time to time.
Those of you who switch to Labs I wish good luck. All of you (if retired
already or not) I like to thank for the good times and I wish you the
best for your future :-). I’m sure that I will meet some of you in the
coming years again.
Sincerely,
DaB.
Hello all,
Today, I hacked together a JIRA migration tool. If you want your bugs
migrated please do the following two things:
1) Under Administration, <your project>, People, add 'Bugzilla Bug Exporter
(valhallasw)' to 'Administrators' and click 'Update'. Otherwise, the bot
cannot close the bug.
2) File a bug in bugzilla using the following link:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia&component=Bu…
3) Your bugs will be migrated for you! See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/58820 for an example of what the converted
bug looks like.
Merlijn
Hello guys,
I like to wish you a Merry Christmas. I hope you get all presents you
wrote Santa for, eat a nice Christmash-dish and can celebrate with your
family and friends :-). Take a few days off and relax a bit.
If you celebrate Xmas at the 25th instead of the 24th: Repack this eMail
and open it tomorrow again ;-)
Fröhliche Weihnachten!
Sincerely,
DaB.
I am finishing up the move and want to redirect all incoming links (which
use the exact same structure) from the toolserver to labs. Ive tried
several things from IRC, but am getting nowhere. does anyone have an
existing .htaccess that does this?
Thanks
I am in the process of migrating to labs and the command sql performs
differently between the two platforms, Can I get the source for the
toolserver version of it so that we can make the labs version work the same.