Congratulations, awesome work! On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:49 AM Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Alexandros Kosiaris > <akosia...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Today we've successfully migrated our wikis (MediaWiki and associated > > services) > > from our primary data center (eqiad) to our secondary (codfw), an > exercise > > we've done for the 3rd year in a row. During the most critical part of > the > > switch today, the wikis were in read-only mode for a duration of 7 and a > > half minutes - a significant improvement from last year. > > Everyone involved worked hard to make this happen, but I'd like to > give a special shout out to Giuseppe Lavagetto for taking the time to > follow up on a VisualEditor problem that affected Wikitech > (<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163438>). We noticed during the > April 2017 switchover that the client side code for VE was failing to > communicate with the backend component while the wikis were being > served from the Dallas datacenter. We guessed that this was a > configuration error of some sort, but did not take the time to debug > in depth. When the issue reoccurred during the current datacenter > switch, Giuseppe took a deep dive into the code and configuration, > identified the configuration difference that triggered the problem, > and made a patch for the Parsoid backend that fixes Wikitech. > > Wikitech is a low volume wiki for both edits and reads, and for > various historical and technical reasons is different from all other > wikis that we host. Keeping it available for reading is important to > our technical teams because it hosts many of the troubleshooting > playbooks that we use to diagnose and correct operational problems on > the rest of the wikis. Taking the time to work on an editing bug that > only impacted edits done using VisualEditor is awesome, but not the > sort of thing I would normally expect to be worked on promptly. For > me, Giuseppe's work on this bug is a sign that that he cares about the > small details, and also that the rest of the switchover went well > giving him the time to investigate lower impact edge cases like this. > > > Bryan > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
