[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

[Sumana Harihareswara]

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.

-- 
Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur at member.fsf.org
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist

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