[Engineering] Data center switch-over moving ahead next week: please stay available :)

[Mark Bergsma]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the update. I'm glad to see the switchover went relatively
> painlessly!
>
> On 19 April 2016 at 09:00, Mark Bergsma <mark at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> We switched the wikis to read-only (editing disabled) at 14:02 UTC, and
>> went back read-write at 14:48 UTC - a little longer than planned. While
>> edits were possible then, unfortunately at that time Special:Recent Changes
>> (and related change feeds) were not yet working due to an unexpected
>> configuration problem with our Redis servers until 15:10 UTC, when we found
>> and fixed the issue. The site has stayed up and available for readers
>> throughout the entire migration.
>>
>
> The recent changes problem is tracked in T133053
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133053>. Is anyone working on this
> issue?
>

It seems not, no. Noone with MediaWiki related dev knowledge is active
anymore, and the lack of a clear MW Core (availability?) team designated to
deal with this isn't helping either.

-- 
Mark Bergsma <mark at wikimedia.org>
Lead Operations Architect
Director of Technical Operations
Wikimedia Foundation
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