Re: [Toolserver-l] Repairing of sql-s5 (dewiki)

2013-12-02 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > AFAIUI, Asher has left WMF. New DB contact seems to be Sean > Pringle. That's correct. Asher is still a volunteer, and still has root (yes, WMF also has volunteer roots, in both senses of the word :-), so if he's responded he may well be

Re: [Toolserver-l] TS and/vs. Labs

2013-08-29 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Merlissimo wrote: > Because of the open source requirement i hope that i have rewritten my > tools with the help of WMDE in about 6-10 month. That's great, I'm happy to hear that WMDE is helping with this. > That's a boring and usless additional work Boring it

Re: [Toolserver-l] rosemary's copy of enwiki_p also corrupt?

2012-11-05 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Platonides wrote: > It's the first notice I get that labs replication is being set up. Who > is handling this? Asher? Yes, Asher is working on it this month. We've got most of the hardware provisioned. Ryan will work on user grants when he's back. No promises yet

Re: [Toolserver-l] rosemary's copy of enwiki_p also corrupt?

2012-11-03 Thread Erik Moeller
On Nov 3, 2012 5:06 PM, "DaB." wrote: > While I tried to figure out how to > decompress the file, I accidentally overwritten the file at Thursday. Sorry to hear this. Shit happens - we'll help when we can. My most recent inquiry to you and Nosy was unrelated (I asked for the configs so we can co

Re: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver

2012-10-02 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Carl (CBM) wrote: > But I expect that few toolserver users were/are working on mediawiki > extensions. For non-extension projects that have a lot of data, using > a database server is the only reasonable solution. Just as a point of > data, the "logging" table for

Re: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver

2012-09-30 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > I am not writing as a WMF trustee, but in my personal capacity as a > community member interested in the toolserver. This is a fairly operational > discussion, and not something discussed by the board; I only know about it > because I read th

Re: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver

2012-09-30 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Krinkle wrote: > I just wanted to make sure you > know that there are confirmed and scheduled plans for Wikimedia Labs to have a > live db replication arranged between the labs cluster and the wmf production > cluster. As far as I know there are no considerations

Re: [Toolserver-l] Reasons for not migrating to Tool Lab

2012-09-26 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:15 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > I think I'd add "general direction of centralizing everything under a single > Wikimedia Foundation is a bad idea" as a permanent blocker. As others have noted, there's a difference between offering data (which we do - we've spent a lot of time

Re: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver

2012-09-25 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Platonides wrote: Hi Platonides. > labs is also a second class citizen. > > Moreover, it is explicitely stated not to be for production-like level. > > What will happen if a really successful tool reaches to a point where it > de-facto needs it ? (eg. a WLM tool,

Re: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver

2012-09-25 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi all, let me weigh in with a few initial comments, and I'll ask the Labs folks to participate here and on Meta as well with regard to technical questions. The initial focus for Labs has been to provide functionality that toolserver doesn't - get root on a VM or set of VMs to install/test arbitr

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > But how Erik? What message will the api throw when bots tries to read or > to edit? Via $wgGroupPermissions -- so I guess it'll throw a general permission error identical to what you'd get if you'd try to edit a page you don't have access

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Ferland wrote: > Are we turning off all edits? Last I understood from Ryan Kaldari on > Wikitech-L there would be a site notice that covered everything up, but the > enterprising among us could hide the layer / block the js. Edits will be disabled for the

[Toolserver-l] Toolserver projects list

2011-01-11 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi, is there still an up-to-date, canonical list of toolserver projects? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l