[Labs-l] current situation with replicated databases in Labs

[Platonides]

On 03/03/13 19:46, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> I talked with Peter Youngmeister about this on Friday and wanted to
> report to you about the current status -- Peter, please correct me if
> I'm wrong.
> 
> The hardware is set up and the OS installed.  Asher Feldman altered
> plans: there will be writable tables alongside the replicated DBs, as
> bots/tools makers have requested, but that means we needed to order more
> hardware - external SSDs.  That dependency, however, is not something
> that should block things or further delay the DB replication.

:))

> Peter and Asher are going to sprint together early this week and get to
> the point where WMF's legal folks and technical architecture experts can
> look at the plans -- especially *which specific columns need to be
> redacted for privacy protection* -- and approve.  Once that happens, (...)

I recommend them to look at the definition of the views used at the
toolserver. Approving everything that is already available at toolserver
should be straightforward. It's obviously possible that some new column
is missing from ts right now.

(I know our people of legal is quite technical, but making them analyze
mediawiki database structure is probably asking too much)


Oh, and Asher/Peter, if it would be also possible to get texts from
External Storage (through a gateway process, perhaps) I'm sure that
would be welcome.