Hi all
Great to see Hemlock up and running. However, it doesn't seem like it's ready to go live yet, so, DaB, please wait some more days before switching tools.wikimedia.de to hemlock, and also keep the accounts on zedler around for a while.
Here are some problems I found while trying to get my tools running on hemlock. I think they are important to everyone, but some things can only be resolved by admins:
* reportedly, several user accounts are still missing or inaccessible * mysql on zedler is missing grants @hemlock.ts-local - no db access is possible * all .my.cnf files on hemlock need to have host = zedler.ts-local * All scripts and config files using absolute pathes have to be adjusted. gnu tools, php, mysql, apache logs all changed location. Perhaps a few symlinks would ease the pain. * crontab has not been copied. This should be done by each user by hand (because scripts need to be adjusted, secondary data needs to be consistent, etc). But we need to know until when cron jobs on login-services remain active - perhaps cron jobs can be kept running on zedler for a while, and migrated when convenient. * There's still a lot of stuff missing on hemlock. For example, i just installed imagemagick and rsvg, river installed the replace utility. * Apache config is different from zedler. I just fixed some problems regarding symlinks and the DirectoryIndex directive. There are probably more issues. * Apache logs are not public - not sure how to change it. chmod fixes it only until the next log rotation.
So, the transition isn't seamless and requires quite a bit of attention for each user. Thus, we should give people a chance to get their stuff running under http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/ before even thinking of switching the domain.
Regards Daniel