Hi!
The toolserver will run until June 30th 2014. Nothing changed about this date.
As announced to all toolserver user accounts today, all accounts will expire in January 2014. They can be renewed as usual. The two toolserver admins Marlen Caemmerer and Alexander Mette provided two scripts which will help you to pack and download your data and delete them afterwards.
The reasons for my decision to have the accounts expire: First of all, I would like to remind everyone to think about their tools' migration early and get help if needed. Second, we are dealing the data of a few hundred expired accounts already. The owners shall have the chance to re-login and collect their data. They have been reactivated and will expire in January, too. Third, I would like to encourage all those who already moved over to Tool Labs to download and then their stuff themselves.
Best, Silke
Thanks for clarifying. The message didn't say anything about a possibility to renew them. Are there statistics on how many of those messages bounced? Are you going to contact those users on wiki?
Nemo
-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: Toolserver decommissioning - migrate to Labs Data: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:57:59 +0000 Dear nemobis,
as you know we are shutting down the Toolserver. Therefore we have set all accounts to expire on
6th of January 2014
Please migrate your tools to Labs.
For packing and deleting all your stuff except the user-store you can use the scripts byebye and burnbridges on nightshade.toolserver.org. The first tool creates tarballs of all your data except for the user-store and the second tool deletes all this data as well as expires your account.
Best regards Your TS admins
maxsem@nightshade:~$ burnbridges PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /usr/local/bin/burnbridges.php on line 137
On 11.11.2013, 20:56 Federico wrote:
Thanks for clarifying. The message didn't say anything about a possibility to renew them. Are there statistics on how many of those messages bounced? Are you going to contact those users on wiki?
Nemo
-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: Toolserver decommissioning - migrate to Labs Data: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:57:59 +0000 Dear nemobis,
as you know we are shutting down the Toolserver. Therefore we have set all accounts to expire on
6th of January 2014
Please migrate your tools to Labs.
For packing and deleting all your stuff except the user-store you can use the scripts byebye and burnbridges on nightshade.toolserver.org. The first tool creates tarballs of all your data except for the user-store and the second tool deletes all this data as well as expires your account.
Best regards Your TS admins
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"the second tool deletes all this data as well as expires your account."
The tools migrated to labs should be 301-redirecting to the tools new home, not showing an "Account expired" message.
Hello,
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Platonides wrote:
"the second tool deletes all this data as well as expires your account."
The tools migrated to labs should be 301-redirecting to the tools new home, not showing an "Account expired" message.
Yes, this is an issue we thought about, too but had no real solution: as far as I understood each tool has an own URL at tool labs. Its quite hard to put this in a redirection monster - it might be possible to write a script for it but I guess its far more handy to change the URLs everywhere when people complain.
Another more simple solution would be to send the redirect to the "new home page on tool labs" or to the tools overview page of tool labs http://tools.wmflabs.org/ .
Would this be something more feasible or do you have any other idea?
Cheers Marlen/nosy
Hey,
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Max Semenik wrote:
maxsem@nightshade:~$ burnbridges PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /usr/local/bin/burnbridges.php on line 137
the parse error was fixed by the coder and it now worked for my account.
Cheers Marlen/nosy
PS: I still have a valid root account and will keep it - dont panic
On 18.11.2013, 18:21 Marlen wrote:
Hey,
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Max Semenik wrote:
maxsem@nightshade:~$ burnbridges PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /usr/local/bin/burnbridges.php on line 137
the parse error was fixed by the coder and it now worked for my account.
Thanks, confirmed to work now!
Hi Marlen,
On 18 November 2013 15:18, Marlen Caemmerer marlen.caemmerer@wikimedia.dewrote:
Yes, this is an issue we thought about, too but had no real solution: as far as I understood each tool has an own URL at tool labs. Its quite hard to put this in a redirection monster - it might be possible to write a script for it but I guess its far more handy to change the URLs everywhere when people complain.
I discussed this with Marc Pelletier (Coren, cc'ed) on #wikimedia-labs this afternoon. The final 'best idea' was the following: - Let users on the TS redirect their tools to whatever new location (which would probably be Tool Labs) using .htaccess, - Expired accounts should then still be allowed to redirect using .htaccess, - When the TS goes down, some other server, probably in the TL cluster, can take over the .htaccess files and keep providing redirects.
Would this (mainly the expired accounts part, which would require changes on the TS side) be acceptable? It would allow users that want redirects to put them in place (in a well-defined manner that will keep working after the TS goes down), without too much effort from the end of the admins of either the TS or TL.
Coren, if I missed/mis-summarized something, please correct me :-)
Merlijn
Hello,
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
I discussed this with Marc Pelletier (Coren, cc'ed) on #wikimedia-labs this afternoon. The final 'best idea' was the following:
- Let users on the TS redirect their tools to whatever new location
(which would probably be Tool Labs) using .htaccess,
- Expired accounts should then still be allowed to redirect using
.htaccess,
- When the TS goes down, some other server, probably in the TL cluster,
can take over the .htaccess files and keep providing redirects.
Would this (mainly the expired accounts part, which would require changes on the TS side) be acceptable? It would allow users that want redirects to put them in place (in a well-defined manner that will keep working after the TS goes down), without too much effort from the end of the admins of either the TS or TL.
Coren, if I missed/mis-summarized something, please correct me :-)
This sounds like a good and doable idea. Currently the expired accounts get displayed via a global htaccess - we'd have to turn this mechanism off then because if a user is in this global file his home page will not even be accessed by the web server. Thats why I'd have a additional suggestion - expired accounts get a default htaccess in their home directories public_html dir if no htaccess is found. I still then only have the problem that if a account expires and htaccess is not touched for whatever reason the web stuff there stays active. And: if someone burns bridges when done with the move to labs the htaccess file would get currently deleted too - ill discuss this again and think about it (ok we could recode so the file does not get deleted or simply gets appended to the global htaccess file...) ;).
But still - yes - good suggestion.
Cheers Marlen/nosy
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