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
[2]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/Design
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