Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Peter Youngmeister
welcome, sean! very very glad you're joining us! :) --peter On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome Sean! On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle

[Wikitech-l] ganglia temporarily private

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hi All, Due to some security concerns, ganglia.w.o is currently behind htaccess. We're actively working to resolve the security issues, and will restore public access once they are resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience! Cheers, Peter ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] mariadb 5.5 in production for english wikipedia

2012-12-11 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Asher, This is awesome! Thank you for your hard, careful work and dedication in taking this huge first step in moving to MariaDB! --peter On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Asher Feldman afeld...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi, This afternoon, I migrated one of the main production English Wikipedia

[Wikitech-l] All wmf imagescalers now running ubuntu 12.04 precise

2012-10-24 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hi All, As of this moment, all imagescalers are now running ubuntu 12.04 precise pangolin. This should close a number of bugzilla tickets, as well as remove the final blocker for timed media handler. Many thanks to Tim and Faidon for patching/package building for this! I'm very excited by this,

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Imagescaler disto/packages

2012-10-05 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hi Kevin, Yep, I made a mistake. I managed to add these files to the debian/patches dir, but didn't actually get them applied. Doh. Thank you very much for the spot on this! --peter On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Kevin Israel pleasest...@live.com wrote: On 10/02/2012 09:10 AM, Peter

[Wikitech-l] New Imagescaler disto/packages

2012-10-02 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hello all, I just enabled srv190 as an imagescaler running ubuntu 12.04 precise with new versions of imagemagick and librsvg. This is a test for upgrading all of our imagescalers to newer versions of... many things. Upgrading these boxes and these packages is often problematic, so please let me

[Wikitech-l] upgrades to search cluster

2012-08-30 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hi All, I have moved all search traffic to hosts now running ubuntu 12.04 (precise). This should be a no-op, as the search software itself has not changed, and all automated tests looked good, but I wanted to make you all aware as I neither the time nor languages skills to manually test every

[Wikitech-l] upgrading wikipedia apaches to precise

2012-08-28 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hello all, test.wikipedia.org (hostname srv193) is currently running Ubuntu 12.04 precise as well as a slightly update configuration package and a new (minor update only) version of php. Tomorrow morning PST, I will be putting two apaches, srv194 and srv281, into the production apache pool with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Live testing of Ashburn search infrastructure

2012-04-05 Thread Peter Youngmeister
any specific question. -peter On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:09 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Peter Youngmeister p...@wikimedia.org wrote: at 15:00 UTC, tomorrow, 4/4/12. (Or 4/4/12, for those not using American date formatting.) [[ISO 8601]] can

[Wikitech-l] Live testing of Ashburn search infrastructure

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hello, This week we will be testing the new search infrastructure that has been spun up in our Ashburn data center. Search is currently running on some of our oldest hardware, so this should provide both better performance and reliability. The first wiki that we will be testing is eswiki. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-14 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hi Tim, It seems as though what I was proposing was not entirely clear. Firstly, I feel that I understand the value of the policy that Sumana wrote. This is why I repeatedly praised it as valuable in my email. Having a harassment policy and guidelines for ejection from an event is important. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-13 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hi! So, I am pro this policy. It's clean, neat, and easy to understand. However, in some ways, I feel that while a policy like this is a(n) (unfortunately) necessary tool to prevent discrimination and harassment at tech events, I do not think that it is sufficient. Let me explain. In my mind,

Re: [Wikitech-l] https via GPU?

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Hey, I looked at this a little while ago for a previous job. I think that it's a pretty awesome idea, but sadly I could never even find source for their research, much less any reports of it being successfully deployed in the wild, which made me sad. Hopefully they'll release it and then some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing (Was: WYSIWYG and parser plans)

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Youngmeister
If you guys still think about ideas as things that can be stolen, perhaps you should check out the open source movement. Here's a good reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: This is how WMF staff treats volunteers:

Re: [Wikitech-l] New SVN committer

2011-03-29 Thread Peter Youngmeister
Thanks! Am excited! On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan Lane wrote: I've given extensions, core, and deployment access to a new member of our ops team: Peter Youngmeister. He should be adding his userinfo as we speak. - Ryan Lane Welcome, Peter