[Wiki Loves Monuments] acute problems with the WLX jury tool during WLE-2016

[Lily]

Sounds good. We will let you know the list of couple of tools we need extra
support with in the next 10 days.

As a side note, as long as the maintenance schedule does not collide with
the last days of the contest or jury process (the end of September and
October), we know ahead of time about the downtime, and we're talking about
few hours of unavailability, WLM will be fine. It will of course be very
helpful to have the absolutely essential tools up at all times. :)

Thanks for offering help.

Leila

On Aug 6, 2016 10:12 PM, "Yuvi Panda" <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Lily <lilyofthewest.wikimedia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > + Yuvi
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Alexander Tsirlin <altsirlin at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Ilya, Leila, and others,
> >>
> >> Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, I am not programmer, and I
> >> can't help you with the development. I only know that Tools had severe
> >> problems in the past, and it may not be a very reliable solution
> because, if
> >> something happens to the server, you won't have direct control and
> won't be
> >> able to solve the problem quickly. I had enough trouble when map
> scripts for
> >> Wikivoyage were running there.
> >
> >
> > Yuvi, what kind of guarantee can we have for Tools' availability?
>
> It has definitely been more stable than in the past by quite a margin,
> I think. However, we do have some maintenance planned (not announced
> yet) for end of Aug / beginning of September related to NFS that could
> cause some instabilities. In light of that, I think the following is a
> reasonable course of action to follow:
>
> 1. Identify critical 'must have' tools (not too many!)
> 2. Set them up in a labs instances that doesn't have any NFS (I can
> help do this)
> 3. When we do the planned maintenance, re-route the tools to hit the
> labs instances setup in (2) (I can help do this a well).
>
> Now all we need is a *super* minimal (maybe 2?) of tools that should
> be considered absolutely essential for September (I expect everyting
> to be stable by October), so we can setup redundancies for that tool.
>
> --
> Yuvi Panda T
> http://yuvi.in/blog
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