On Aug 26, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
> Some people may have placed sensitive info in the pads, assuming some level
> of (misguided) privacy since the pages weren't indexed. We're not planning
> on doing dumps or even exposing an index.
To further clarify, we'll be keeping a dump in cas
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> I already have been archiving "my" stuff from etherpad on wiki, of course,
> and I've never ever used etherpad.wmflabs.org because I knew everything
> in Labs can die any time, but this doesn't mean that I don't worry for what
> others
I already have been archiving "my" stuff from etherpad on wiki, of
course, and I've never ever used etherpad.wmflabs.org because I knew
everything in Labs can die any time, but this doesn't mean that I don't
worry for what others will lose. Of course I understand it's not the
_responsibility_ o
We don't consider etherpad archive-worthy. It's always been considered an
ephemeral service and we're not willing to put any effort into to save data
from it. If you care about data that you've personally hosted in it, please
put it somewhere that's meant to be archived.
We don't have backups for
Why is a DB merge not possible? Will the DB be kept somewhere, e.g. in
the private data of downloads.wikimedia.org?
Nemo
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> 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
On 08/23/2013 04:02 PM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
> 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.
It'd be more correct to say that any s
CC'ing staff as we might have some non engineers using this service
who should know.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
> 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
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
