> If all goes perfectly, Wikitech will be restored to its original state but be slightly slower.
Could you explain this a bit more? Is this due to the new role data storage backend? How much of a slowdown should we expect? Thanks, Negative24 On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:54 AM Andrew Bogott <[email protected]> wrote: > Executive summary: > > CI tests won't run for a while tomorrow. Also you won't be able to > log into Wikitech. This will begin at 16:00 UTC (8:00 AM in California) > and may take a couple of hours. > > Full story: > > As part of a long-overdue tech-debt payment[0], I'll be migrating > all of the Labs project, membership and role data from ldap into > mysql[1]. Keystone (the Labs Openstack authentication layer) will be > shut off briefly, and subsequently will have incomplete data while > things are gradually copied over from Ldap. > At the same time, Alex will be rolling out a bunch of > OpenStackManager patches[2] to cope with the new reality. I've tested > these quite a lot, but no doubt there will be unexpected issues with > such a big refactor. > > Existing, running labs and tools sessions should not be affected. > New instance creation will be disabled for part of the window, which > will prevent CI from starting new tests. Wikitech login will be > disabled, and users will have to login afresh after logins are restored. > > There is, unfortunately, no user-facing improvement associated with > this update. If all goes perfectly, Wikitech will be restored to its > original state but be slightly slower. If, after the update, anyone > encounters new Wikitech issues (and I emphasize the NEW), please open a > phab ticket and inform me immediately. > > As always, in the worst case scenario you can refer to our doc site > of last resort, https://wikitech-static.wikimedia.org > > > -Andrew > > > [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115029 > [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_keystone_roles > [2] The patchset begins with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/252615/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
