On 25 September 2012 14:15, Ariel T. Glenn ariel@wikimedia.org wrote:
It might be helpful to put together a list of functions that the toolserver supports but that labs currently does not; such a list could serve as a basis for talks with the WMF. Perhaps the labs folks could makes some guesses at when those functions would be available and stable there, which would give everyone a better idea about how long the transition would realistically take.
If I am not mistaken, one of the big items is the ability to run expensive db queries without impacting production. I don't believe this is possible from labs right now, and I'm not sure what their plans are for that.
Ariel
p.s. this post is by me as a former toolserver user, having nothing to do with my status as a wmf staff member etc.
There is a partial list at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Toolserver_features_wanted.
According to the milestones at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Milestones..., we should be expecting database replication from production and user databases in January-March 2013.