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
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