To play devils advocate here they are dedicating and maintaining a service that we get free of charge. Other people have to pay a premium for the service we get.
Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team English Wikipedia Administrator Global User Renamer > On Dec 23, 2017, at 19:28, Daniel Schwen <li...@schwen.de> wrote: > > I do appreciate that the ops team is working to improve reliability and > performance of the database access. Unfortunately it seems to me that there > is a disconnect between ops and tool devs. I wonder if the ops actually > looked at how many user databases have been created and how frequently they > got accessed (all that info should be readily available to them). The logs > would also have told the ops which users relied in user DBs on the project DB > servers. A direct email ahead of time would have gone a long way. > The phabricator post contains the same language I've heard many times before: > The tools devs shouldn't have used the feature anyways. To that I say, well, > we still did and it worked great. Volunteer developers have a limited time > budged with which they create tools that large amounts of users (editors and > readers alike) rely on. That is just the reality of things, and it is not the > ideal op fantasy, I know. The ops seem to be in an asymmetric position of > power here. It sure sounds a lot like a take it or leave it situation to me. > >> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 12:13 PM John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> why did this happen? >> >> Martin >> >> See >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/70/new_wiki_replica_servers_ready_for_use/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >> Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
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