wiki.laptop.org upgrade

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Bernie Innocenti
>> Sorry if I reacted defensively, sending notifications to devel@ was
>> our best practice in the good old pre-G1G1 days, but, clearly, it's no
>> longer sufficient now.  Establishing procedures for notifying planned
>> outages seems like a good course to me.
>
> Agreed.  I think for the past 4 months or so, since we started to get
> double our previous traffic, significant steady use of our sites by
> Uruguay, and (in particular) a stronger dependence on w.l.o and l.o by
> deployments and press events,
>  * we no longer have 'safe' times to take services down
>  * we should be extra careful to maintain mirrors or readable versions
> of services durint maintenance of any sort
>  * there are thousands of users who have never engaged with mailing
> lists, active wiki chats, or our community, but depend on our
> information and servers (wiki info, support, activation, bug tracking,
> &c).
>
>
>> Maybe this should be a topic in the next VIG meeting?
>
> Definitely.

Incidentally, we have laid the groundwork to have safe "sandbox"
versions of all our important services where changes can be tested
prior to being made on the live site.  This wiki upgrade would have
been a perfect opportunity to use a sandbox.

As it is, it appears that the site upgrade broke squid caching (in
particular commit 08738cb15fac477ca7795b0fdc00b265825747e4) and some
visitors will be receiving pages in the wrong language.  Our mediawiki
installation is quite patched, and an upgrade should have been
approached with a great deal more caution.
 --scott

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