> I monitor irc.wikimedia.org and it has proven itself to be highly reliable for many years in production, which is a lot more than can be said for any of these proposed alternatives .
Great! But, as is, it is impossible for us to restart or migrate the irc.wikimedia.org to new servers without also disrupting client connections. RCStream also has this problem. EventStreams does not. We have talked about reworking the irc.wikimedia.org backend so that it is easier to maintain, but as of now there is no official internal project to do this. Either way, I think it is safe to say that irc.wikimedia.org will remain online for the foreseeable future. > is there any working example code, preferably written in Python +1 to what Alex said: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/EventStreams#Python Also, if you want to fix or add more client examples up there, please feel free to do so! :) > Do you really have a date for decommission of a working service already Yes, as you note, MW devs (and developers in general) have a history of creating new services to deprecate old ones. Sometimes this is done for trivial reasons, other times not (but I’m sure no developer ever thinks their own reasons are trivial ;) ). We also have a history of creating new services and not ever actually shutting old ones off, which creates maintenance headaches for the ops team. To help mitigate those headaches, we agreed to commit to a shut off date for RCStream before launching EventStreams. I think the date is far enough in the future that folks should have time to find any bugs, and for us to work out kinks on our side. Of course, If EventStreams isn't working when the July shut off date rolls around, we won’t just blindly turn off RCStream. -Ao On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:31 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Congratulations on the launch of EventStreams. > > Andrew Otto wrote: > >I did say deprecated! Okay okay, we may never be able to fully deprecate > >irc.wikimedia.org. It’s used by too many (probably sentient by now) bots > >out there. > > I monitor irc.wikimedia.org and it has proven itself to be highly reliable > for many years in production, which is a lot more than can be said for any > of these proposed alternatives. I'm glad to hear that irc.wikimedia.org > will be left alone. If people want to be nasty and call irc.wikimedia.org > deprecated, I suppose that's fine, as long as it remains the functional > and dependable (and completely quirky) API it continues to serve as. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
