[Labs-l] [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

[Tomasz Finc]

CC'ing staff as we might have some non engineers using this service
who should know.

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mark Holmquist <mtraceur at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> The day we have all equally hoped for and dreaded is come to pass: Etherpad
> Lite has now replaced Etherpad "Classic" in production, and the labs instance
> is on its way out.
>
> This is my as-wide-as-possible email warning to say that everything on the
> labs instance, as really should have been expected, is going to be gone soon.
> Not immediately - we intend to give you two weeks to get your important data
> off the instance and onto the new one at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ -
> but you should _absolutely_ be moving things as soon as possible. We will
> also keep a data dump around, in case anything else needs to get pulled out
> of the pads, but I would suggest not relying on that if you don't have to.
>
> And in the future: If a URL has "wmflabs.org" in it...don't put anything,
> ANYTHING, important there. The purpose of labs is to let us experiment with
> new technology without having to worry about reliability.
>
> Thanks so much for your help and understanding in the course of this
> migration.
>
> tl;dr: http://etherpad.wmflabs.org is going down in 2 weeks, get yer stuff
> off it.
>
> --
> Mark Holmquist
> Software Engineer, Multimedia
> Wikimedia Foundation
> mtraceur at member.fsf.org
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist
>
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