Merlissimo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Toolserver is in fact hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation today, in our >> Amsterdam data-center. [..] We also maintain the database replication >> on our end which enables tools to function.
> I don't know all internal systems, but i think by > maintaining you mean: grant access to mysql binlogs, traffic > costs and sometimes creating a dump. > Why can WMF not administrate the hole database replication > servers for toolserver users in short-term if WMDE should > not spend money on this anymore? Setting up new replication > servers at production system is done quite often. Adding > views for hiding private data and adding access control > based on toolserver ldap should be possible. The rest of the > toolserver infrastructure won't be touched by this change. > [...] Apparently, it is not that smooth for WMF admins (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.toolserver/3166): | > one obvious solution would be to treat the Toolserver database servers | > as part of WMF's domain so they can use their SOPs (*1) to maintain | > them instead of manually coordinating with the Toolserver admins (or | > not). | I don't think that would be any easier. Our database systems are | completely different from theirs, so it would require all WMF admins to | learn (and remember) a new procedure before they could change anything | on their side. Since they usually don't think to notify us of major | changes in advance, I don't think they would be very happy with that. Tim _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
