As to why: AWS is more flexible and more reliable than wikimedia-labs, other than that it's basically the same. If they really need to use AWS it's probably because they don't like the restrictions that come with wikimedia labs (stuff must be open source, comply with policies, only ubuntu or debian, no proprietary software, hard-to-get public IP, long waiting time for stuff that you can't do yourself (request new project), no IPv6 and many others)
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:08 AM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Why do you even care? Is this question directed to foundation only or >> community developers as well? "Used by wikimedia" is very broad term. > > Pywikibot uses Travis-CI, and I was looking at their S3 artefacts > integration for storage of coverage data. > It turns out to be quite a bit more expensive than I had assumed. > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74863#1710830 > > Also of interest was that given some people are dead against allowing > Travis-CI to do builds for free, it appears parts of our community are > using AWS directly instead of Labs, which is not free. > > I used the broad term "Wikimedia", as it is the broader community that > could be using Labs. It seems to be worth understanding why they are > choosing to not use Labs, and how much it is costing "us". > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
