Re: [Wikitech-l] The ultimate bikeshed: typos in commit messages

2013-01-19 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Thanks to all for voicing your opinions. My observations: * The community is split on this topic * Both camps have people that strongly defend their respective views * The above two points are unlikely to change * People are getting upset due to -1 for things that are by some considered

Re: [Wikitech-l] The ultimate bikeshed: typos in commit messages

2013-01-19 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hey, Thanks to all for voicing your opinions. My observations: * The community is split on this topic * Both camps have people that strongly defend their respective views * The above two points are unlikely to change * People are getting upset due to -1 for things that are by some

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Disruption expected.

2013-01-19 Thread Guillaume Paumier
I realize this list has heard the news already, but I thought I'd share the full announcement nonetheless. -- Forwarded message -- Posted today on the Wikimedia Tech Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-center-in-ashburn-virginia/

[Wikitech-l] Caching of images in varnish

2013-01-19 Thread Bawolff Bawolff
There are reports everywhere of uploading new versions of images failing (upload works but new version does not show up). Last time this happened all that needed to be done was fot varnishhtcpd to be restarted on the image cache servers. [1] could someone with the ability to check, check if that

Re: [Wikitech-l] The ultimate bikeshed: typos in commit messages

2013-01-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 01/19/2013 08:49 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, Thanks to all for voicing your opinions. My observations: * The community is split on this topic * Both camps have people that strongly defend their respective views * The above two points are unlikely to change * People are getting

[Wikitech-l] More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13

2013-01-19 Thread Ct Woo
All, We will be proceeding with the datacenter switchover plan this coming Tuesday (Jan 22, 2013), unless we discover some unexpected and insurmountable issues in our tests between now and then. During the 8-hour migration window on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th (from 17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours /