Sounds good. We will let you know the list of couple of tools we need extra support with in the next 10 days.
As a side note, as long as the maintenance schedule does not collide with the last days of the contest or jury process (the end of September and October), we know ahead of time about the downtime, and we're talking about few hours of unavailability, WLM will be fine. It will of course be very helpful to have the absolutely essential tools up at all times. :)
Thanks for offering help.
Leila
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Lily <lilyofthewest.wikimedia@gmail.com > wrote:
> + Yuvi
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Alexander Tsirlin <altsirlin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Ilya, Leila, and others,
>>
>> Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, I am not programmer, and I
>> can't help you with the development. I only know that Tools had severe
>> problems in the past, and it may not be a very reliable solution because, if
>> something happens to the server, you won't have direct control and won't be
>> able to solve the problem quickly. I had enough trouble when map scripts for
>> Wikivoyage were running there.
>
>
> Yuvi, what kind of guarantee can we have for Tools' availability?
It has definitely been more stable than in the past by quite a margin,
I think. However, we do have some maintenance planned (not announced
yet) for end of Aug / beginning of September related to NFS that could
cause some instabilities. In light of that, I think the following is a
reasonable course of action to follow:
1. Identify critical 'must have' tools (not too many!)
2. Set them up in a labs instances that doesn't have any NFS (I can
help do this)
3. When we do the planned maintenance, re-route the tools to hit the
labs instances setup in (2) (I can help do this a well).
Now all we need is a *super* minimal (maybe 2?) of tools that should
be considered absolutely essential for September (I expect everyting
to be stable by October), so we can setup redundancies for that tool.
--
Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
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