Hi there, Hmm. I can understand that the overhead of maintaining notes that no one seems to want isn't worth the cost & effort, and that teams who need said notes already have had years of notice that Etherpad was not intended for long-term storage. On the other hand, unless there is some urgent need to reduce Etherpad storage (and if there is one then maybe WMF could explain why this wasn't foreseen long in advance) I would think that there should be a well-considered communications plan for reaching "customers" who may have taken for granted that Etherpad was stable, and I would also think the owning WMF team should have a proposed automated migration plan and/or a request for proposals for migration plans (+1 to Hashar's email) before making a relatively sudden change that could impact customers' work plans in the next month when said customers of Etherpad may not have been planning to scramble to check if they need to design & execute team-by-team plans to find & save notes.
I hope that this feedback is useful. Pine🌲 On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM Jelto Wodstrcil via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > If you don't use etherpad, you can ignore this message. > > We will *delete all pads after 1st March 2026*! If you need any of your > pads, please make a local backup. We will not be able to recover the data > after 1st March. > > The pad cleanup helps to reduce the size of the database and the footprint > on our infrastructure. After the cleanup, etherpad can still be used for > real-time collaboration but please do not expect long term storage. > Additional cleanups might happen after that unannounced. > > See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415237 for more information. > > Greetings and thank you > > Jelto > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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