Arturo wasn't around at the time but I've done some digging and found some of the original discussion along with a public summary on the predecessor of this list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-February/003399.html
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 19:13, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Arturo, > > Out of curiosity, why was Debian chosen as the sole flavor of Linux to > offer? I see the reference to that decision on the page that you linked, > but not an an explanation of that decision. > > Thanks! > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:34 AM Arturo Borrero Gonzalez < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> We would like to share some information regarding Wikimedia Cloud >> Services plans for deprecating Ubuntu, specially Trusty. >> >> Ubuntu Trusty's end-of-life is April 2019 and the WMF decided to >> consolidate in a single operating system, which is Debian. >> >> In Cloud VPS, projects containing Ubuntu virtual machine instances have >> been contacted by means of a Phabricator task. Toolforge users aren't >> affected by this right now, because Toolforge itself is currently >> running Trusty. But we are already working on the next, Debian-based, >> Toolforge version. >> >> All this information, more details (and timelines), can be found on >> this Wikitech page: >> >> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Trusty_deprecation >> >> Please, let us know any question or doubt you may have. >> >> Best regards. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list >> [email protected] (formerly >> [email protected]) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >> [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
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