Hi Marc,
Why start from scratch again? Why not just migrate the current Toolserver
setup to the WMF cloud infrastructure?
Maarten
Op 25-2-2013 18:52, Marc A. Pelletier schreef:
<futurama>Good news,
everyone!</futurama>
As many of you know, I officially started my duties today as the WMF
Operations Engineer attached to the Tool Labs. I intend to make a point of
informing all of you of recent news, what I'm working on, and where I'm
headed at regular intervals (probably weekly).
First, a bit of news: I have had confirmation this weekend that the DB
replication made available to Tool Labs users will, in fact, allow the
creation of databases alongside the project ones. This means that one of
the use cases that seemed the most troublesome in the transition (joins
between the WMF databases and tool-specific ones) will be fully supported.
We are making good strides in documenting the *impressive* inventory of
tools that run on toolserver and their requirements (thanks, Silke!). The
list-in-progress can be found at [1]. If you see missing or incorrect
information, please feel free to adjust it -- the more precisely we know
the requirements, the faster we can see about meeting them.
I've started documenting my preleminary design for the shiny new Tool
Labs infrastructure at [2]. This is a living document, and will see a
great deal of revision before it's over (and will serve as the seed for the
documentation). I will shortly create a new Labs project where that
architecture is deployed in preproduction so we can shake out the kinks.
The existing projects, "bots" and "webtools" will be left active for
the
forseeable future until (a) the new architecture has proven itself and (b)
every user has sucessfuly moved their tools to it.
I'm planning on having the new project be fully operational for new tools
by the time the Amsterdam Hackathon takes place at the end of May at the
very least.
For the next week, I'll be mostly in information-gathering mode, as well
as refining the design and requirements of the Tool Labs. Feel free to poke
me for information (or /with/ information) by email or on IRC (where I am
user 'Coren' and idle on #wikimedia-labs and #wikimedia-toolserve at the
very least)
-- Marc A. Pelletier
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Toolserver/List_of_Tools<http://www.medi…
[2]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/**Design<http:/…
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