+1. Data replication aside, a number of projects depend quite heavily
on the tools hosted on the toolserver. If we won't be able to complete
a transition to labs until 2014, *someone* needs to help keep the
Toolserver supported until then - if WMDE cannot, WMF should supply the
costs needed to maintain what is, at the end of the day, one of their
servers. DaB. also needs support with this, as he's been forced to be
the public face of the degrading server, and subjected to the ire of
all of us as a result (which I have participated in, and apologize for,
DaB. I think we all know you and Nosy are doing the best you can under
the circumstances).
Could the WMF and WMDE please collaborate to work out a plan to keep
the toolserver running as best as it can until labs is fully prepared
to take over?
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From: Merlissimo
Sent: 9/25/2012 16:08
To: Wikimedia Toolserver
Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver
Am 25.09.2012 20:48, schrieb Erik Moeller:
Toolserver is in fact hosted by the Wikimedia
Foundation today, in our
Amsterdam data-center. [..] We also maintain the database replication
on our end which enables tools to function.
I don't know all internal systems, but i think by maintaining you mean:
grant access to mysql binlogs, traffic costs and sometimes creating a dump.
Why can WMF not administrate the hole database replication servers for
toolserver users in short-term if WMDE should not spend money on this
anymore? Setting up new replication servers at production system is done
quite often. Adding views for hiding private data and adding access
control based on toolserver ldap should be possible. The rest of the
toolserver infrastructure won't be touched by this change.
Currently the replication of database cluster of s3/s6/s7 (all on server
hyacinth) is lagging for more than an hour, performance is very low and
complex queries are taking 10 times longer than normal, so that some of
my queries can not finish within maximum allowed runtime (which brakes
some of my tools since about five days). To solve this problem new
hardware is need. I as toolserver user don't care if support comes from
WMDE or WMF as long as this problem is fixed. I am the one with the
oversized user talk page because other authors asked me why my tools are
not working.
Merlissimo
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