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>