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From: Mark Holmquist <mtraceur@member.fsf.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time
To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, engineering@lists.wikimedia.org, labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org


The day we have all equally hoped for and dreaded is come to pass: Etherpad
Lite has now replaced Etherpad "Classic" in production, and the labs instance
is on its way out.

This is my as-wide-as-possible email warning to say that everything on the
labs instance, as really should have been expected, is going to be gone soon.
Not immediately - we intend to give you two weeks to get your important data
off the instance and onto the new one at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ -
but you should _absolutely_ be moving things as soon as possible. We will
also keep a data dump around, in case anything else needs to get pulled out
of the pads, but I would suggest not relying on that if you don't have to.

And in the future: If a URL has "wmflabs.org" in it...don't put anything,
ANYTHING, important there. The purpose of labs is to let us experiment with
new technology without having to worry about reliability.

Thanks so much for your help and understanding in the course of this
migration.

tl;dr: http://etherpad.wmflabs.org is going down in 2 weeks, get yer stuff
off it.

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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur@member.fsf.org
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist

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