Daniel Mayer wrote:
It is important for our developers to have complete access to the servers that Wikimedia projects run on. Otherwise outages will be significantly longer and we would not have any way to fix things ourselves when it is the server that is the problem. Read only mirrors are a very real possibility but in order to get that to work we need somebody to code the functionality. Jimbo supports the idea of read only mirrors but somebody has to code that to make it happen in a near real time and seemless way. Any volunteers?
Me, me! :)
I've started working on DB replication. We should be able to set up a remote slave server once I'm done. The MySQL manual says you can even have slave servers connecting over a modem, just dialling up occasionally to get the latest updates. So having one in a different city or something shouldn't be a problem. There might be a few UI issues to sort out. I guess we'd have to set up a method of mirroring images too.
-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau>