[Toolserver-l] Maintenance for schema changes, now

[Tim Landscheidt]

River Tarnell <river.tarnell at wikimedia.de> wrote:

>> > This was not announced in advance since we only learnt about the changes
>> > about 10 minutes ago.  Sorry.
>> Is this something we can do about in the future?

> I've asked WMF (i.e., Tim) to let us know about schema changes in
> advance next time, so we can apply them with less service interruption.

Given WMDE's recent fundraising changes which now allow sup-
porting WMF directly, are there any plans to blur the clear
distinction between WMF's farm and the Toolserver database
servers with the accompanying headaches in the near future?

Tim