[Labs-l] Reinstating memcache on tools project

[Petr Bena]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy at tuxmachine.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure let's document new system, but BEFORE you turn previous down, not
>> after you do that...
>
> People had plenty of warning that needed to stop using memcache. If
> anyone was relying on it being available for mediawiki then they
> should have spoken up before the service was turned off.
>
>> In normal production environment people first set up some alternative
>> system they switch to and then shut down the old system, not the other
>> way like here. Imagine other wmf ops would first shut down all squid
>> servers and then started to look for some alternative... I guess
>> people wouldn't be much happy about all sites being down until they
>> figure it out.
>>
>> @Coren: yes we can shut it down, we can shut down all servers
>> wikimedia project has... but is it a good idea?
>
> Wow, petan. Seriously?
>

Of course not, that was just desperate attempt to point out that
"being abnle to do something" does't mean you should do that...