Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikipedia-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad

2017-05-01 Thread Riccardo Coccioli
Those variables are in the process to be moved to Etcd to make the configuration dynamic, see [1] and related tasks, hence (re)moving the problem in the first place. Even in the case that this will not go to production in time, the hardcoded part in Switchdc can be easily removed, please find my de

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikipedia-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad

2017-04-30 Thread Eddie Greiner-Petter
Hey, I had a quick chat with Zppix about how to solve this and we ended up creating this task instead of just sending in a patch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164177 While it looks quite trivial to change the strings in the config files on the first glance, I noticed that the switchdc scrip

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikipedia-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad

2017-04-30 Thread Jaime Crespo
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Eddie Greiner-Petter < wikimedia@eddie-sh.de> wrote: > That reminds me that we noticed during switch to codfw that the message > shown when trying to really edit a page (the mediawiki read-only > message) contains: > > The system administrator who locked it off

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikipedia-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad

2017-04-30 Thread Eddie Greiner-Petter
As there was a globalnotice the other week when we switched to codfw, I'm sure there'll be one this week for the switch back too. That reminds me that we noticed during switch to codfw that the message shown when trying to really edit a page (the mediawiki read-only message) contains: The system

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikipedia-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad

2017-04-30 Thread David Gerard
Would a sitenotice for logged-in users, or at least a watchlist notice, be a good idea? - d. On 30 April 2017 at 19:08, zppix e wrote: > Hello, as you may or may not already know there will be a datacentre > switch back to Eqiad, WMF's main data centre, on May 3rd at approximately > 14:00 UT