Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Roadmap and Deployments update.
See the full roadmap for next week and beyond here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_3rd
Some important call outs:
== Monday ==
The migration of WMF Labs from pmtpa to eqiad begins * new instance creation disabled in pmtpa, only available in eqiad * See the emails from Andrew and Marc for more details: ** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002152.html ** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002153.html
We will be disabling ArticleFeedBack on all wikis. * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61163
== Tuesday ==
MediaWiki upgrades * group1 to 1.23wmf16: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) * see also: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_deplo... ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf16
== Wednesday ==
The new search cluster will be upgraded (to ElasticSearch 1.0.1). * This will begin at 0:00 UTC March 6th/4pm Pacific March 5th and will take a few hours to complete. * All wikis currently using the new search (CirrusSearch) will be temporarily switched back to the old serach (lsearchd) * You shouldn't see much of a change in search behavior (CirrusSearch is mostly feature parity to lsearchd) if your wiki is on new search, but to see a list of wikis that currently have CirrusSearch enabled (and in what way: Beta Feature or Primary), see: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Wikis
== Thursday ==
MediaWiki upgrades * group2 to 1.23wmf16 (all Wikipedias) * group0 to 1.23wmf17 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
As always, questions welcome,
Greg
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:54:13 -0500, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Roadmap and Deployments update.
See the full roadmap for next week and beyond here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_3rd
Some important call outs:
== Monday ==
The migration of WMF Labs from pmtpa to eqiad begins
- new instance creation disabled in pmtpa, only available in eqiad
- See the emails from Andrew and Marc for more details:
** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002152.html ** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002153.html
Oh my giddy aunt, was there a brain fade among all the communications around this matter. Didn't someone think that the jargon of "pmtpa" and "eqiad" needed some explanation? In retrospect do you think that the statement "new instance creation disabled in pmtpa, only available in eqiad" is going to make sense to 99.9% of the eyes around the wikis where we are 'ambassadors'?
For those who are among the unwashed (like me) these are two different sites at which Wikimedia hosts servers, so it is a server/location migration. Not an operating system, a type of server, or a new server dental floss, or anything else equally bizarre. I am still not certain what it actually all means and I pity poor Coren when I manage to find and nag him. :-)
Regards, Billinghurst (still somewhat gobsmacked)
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:22 AM, billinghurst billinghurst@gmail.com wrote:
Oh my giddy aunt, was there a brain fade among all the communications around this matter. Didn't someone think that the jargon of "pmtpa" and "eqiad" needed some explanation? In retrospect do you think that the statement "new instance creation disabled in pmtpa, only available in eqiad" is going to make sense to 99.9% of the eyes around the wikis where we are 'ambassadors'?
You know you could have just asked, right? :-P Part of the point of the ambassadors list is to be the conduit, which means sometimes the jargon is going to creep in, but it's also perfectly fine to ask what these things mean on list.
Our Operations team has a five letter abbreviation for all of the datacenters. The first two letters are the vendor responsible, and the last three are airport code for the nearest airport to the datacenter. "pmtpa" is the datacenter in Tampa, "pm" standing for hosting company Power Medium (now Hostway), and "tpa" being the airport code for Tampa International Airport[1]. "eqiad" is our Equinix-operated datacenter in Ashburn, Virginia, which is near Dulles International Airport (IAD).[2]
Rob
[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pmtpa [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eqiad
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