Yes, I tink that a banner would be preferable, but i think that a notice on the homepage would be a reasonable backup option.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 06:28 Manuel Arostegui <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:05 PM Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Does this mean that https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ will be temporarily > > read only? That site seems to be somewhat popular for taking notes during > > meetings. If that site will be affected then I recommend that you put up > a > > site notice there, possibly a multilingual one depending on how much use > > the site gets for non-English content. > > Pine > > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > > > > > Hello Pine, > > Yes, etherpad will be read-only for a few seconds (5-10 seconds) > I don't know if it is possible to put a banner on Etherpad itself, is that > what you mean? > > Thanks > Manuel. > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 04:01 Manuel Arostegui <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > The current primary master for m1 (db1063), which is mostly for > internal > > > services + etherpad isn't in a great healthy status: it is an old host, > > > which needs to be decommissioned and which is having disks failing > pretty > > > much every week (plus disks on predictive failure). > > > > > > We have decided to fail it over one of the newer hosts, db1135: > > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231403 > > > > > > We have scheduled this switchover for: Tuesday 10th September at 16:00 > > UTC > > > > > > This failover should be rather quick and would only take a few seconds > > > (while we re-load the haproxy) - during those few seconds, the > following > > > services will be on read-only: > > > > > > bacula > > > etherpadlite > > > librenms > > > puppet > > > racktables > > > rt > > > > > > Communication will happen at #wikimedia-operations > > > If you are around at that time and want to help with the monitoring, > > please > > > join us! > > > > > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
