Bernie - We should *never* take our public-facing Web services offline deliberately without scheduling that event in advance and sending warnings and reminders of when that scheduled maintenance will occur. Never. There are a lot of people who have been working very hard over the last few weeks to ensure these primary Web services are available, online, and reliable - with fallback systems in place in case something (like a software upgrade) goes wrong.
This should never happen again. We cannot be taking our servers offline during a busy period of the day (late afternoon or early evening, prime time for our major US G1G1 market) for 45 minutes while we figure out "weird problems". Perhaps I missed it, but I do not recall any email review or discussion of the value or need for either OpenID or a MediaWiki update, and I don't understand how we made the decision that either was more valuable than keeping one of our two major public sites online. Having volunteer assistance for systems administration is extremely valuable, but that assistance must be coordinated and communicated with the rest of the team. - Ed On 12/4/08 5:08 AM, "Bernie Innocenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed McNierney wrote: >> What was the motivation for this upgrade? Why did we need to take the wiki >> offline for several hours during our G1G1 promotion? Thanks. > > It was offline for approximately 45 minutes (and it was mostly due to > a weird problem that took a while to figure out). > > The main motivation for the upgrade was installing OpenID to enable > single-sign-on across all the web applications. Secondarily, it's > always safer to keep web applications up to date. I also did a few > cleanups to ensure the next updates will be a little easier. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel