Hi,
at the office hour yesterday
(cf.
http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20130430.txt):
| [...]
| <Coren> multichill: The long story short; replicating
| databases is happening soon (Within the month)
| Replicating multiple copies of commons and wikidata
| isn't going to happen that way; it needs to be built
| into application logic or using federated tables.
| Almost /all/ of the problems the TS have had with
| replication were caused by that redundancy and
| trying to keep it synced.
| <multichill> Coren: So you're basically saying Toollabs is
| useless for me
| <Platonides> {{ref needed}}
| <Coren> We're all more than happy to help you (and any other
| maintainer) with adapting your tools to work in that
| setup.
| <scfc_de> Coren: In that case, Tools will not be able to
| replace Toolserver.
| <giftpfla1ze> what are federated tables btw?
| <Ryan_Lane> AFAIK toolserver will also have this limitation
| at some point
| <scfc_de> Ryan_Lane: What do you mean?
| [...]
There were never answers to this, so I bring it up here
again:
1. How were "almost /all/ of the problems the TS have had
with replication" "caused by that redundancy and trying
to keep it synced"?
2. What limitation will the Toolserver have at some point?
Tim