Hello Jetlo, I want to support the idea expressed by my fellow volunteers that this decision does not adequately support the community's use-cases. I fully understand that Etherpad was designed as a temporary collaboration tool, but: * it is not only used by the tech community, so such an announcement *must* go out as widely as possible, especially on the lists dedicated to conference organizers and wikimedia-l * *17 days is not enough* heads up for the community to organize and sort/backup decades of meeting minutes. I believe that for the first cleanup, *3 months* would a more realistic timeline * future purges should also have a *predictable schedule and be announced* at least a month in advance, to allow people to save their work
I hope your team will reconsider their decision to cater for the needs of the wider community. Best, Strainu În mar., 10 feb. 2026 la 14:57, Jelto Wodstrcil via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> a scris: > 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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