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?