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

[Ken Snider]

Indeed.

While we will make all attempts to maintain the service reliably, please consider the pads themselves ephemeral - move important data elsewhere!

Thanks (and thanks Sumana for the note of caution!)

--Ken.

On Aug 23, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> And just as a reminder: etherpad.wikimedia.org is not a production-level
> service, and therefore any data within an etherpad
> should be considered both public and able to disappear at any time.
> This is one reason I recommend that people use Etherpads for short-term
> defined collaboration sessions, and frequently do backups, and always
> archive documents to a wiki after a session ends.
> 
> -- 
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
> 
> On 08/23/2013 04:16 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
>> Thanks to Mark Holmquist for maintaining http://etherpad.wmflabs.org for
>> the past long while. It is going down in 2 weeks, so please retrieve
>> your text.
>> 
>> I recommend that you:
>> 
>> * go into your browser history
>> * search it for etherpad.wmflabs.org
>> * go to each of those pads and copy-and-paste the content someplace,
>> preferably on a public wiki, even if it's just in your userspace
>> * replace the content of the Etherpad with a link to the wiki page
>> you've moved the text to
>> 
>> -Sumana
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two
>> weeks - backup time
>> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:02:13 -0700
>> From: Mark Holmquist <mtraceur at member.fsf.org>
>> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> To: wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org, engineering at lists.wikimedia.org,
>> labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>