[Olpc-sysadmin] wiki.laptop.org upgrade

[Ed McNierney]

Thanks; that is certainly more urgent.

I would particularly like to understand why that time/day was chosen and
what process is used for announcements/notifications.  There are many people
who were obviously affected by this upgrade (like me) who were completely
unaware of it.  Some of those people got notifications after the fact (like
me) while most of them have no idea what happened.  They just wanted to get
information from http://support.laptop.org and found it wasn¹t there.

The ³discussion² at the sysadmin meeting said very little; I thought you
were having a discussion about it yesterday, not installing anything.  I was
IN that meeting (and paying attention, and have re-read the transcript) and
was completely unaware that wiki.laptop.org would be offline on Wednesday
evening.

    - Ed

P.S. I removed devel from the cc list and added techteam as most of the
folks on devel aren¹t involved in IT support issues.


On 12/4/08 9:06 AM, "Henry Edward Hardy" <hhardy01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ed I was the one who made the decision to go forward with this upgrade. I was
> present working with Bernie throughout.
> 
> This was discussed in the Tuesday sysadmin IRC meeting.
> 
> We have had numerous requests for these enhanced features such as
> http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23067
> 
> What was done is documented at the machine:pedal page on internal (once it is
> up again).
> 
> I will explain this in more detail once the issue with swan is resolved.
> 
> --HH.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> Ed McNierney wrote:
>>> > What was the motivation for this upgrade?  Why did we need to take the
>>> wiki
>>> > offline for several hours during our G1G1 promotion?  Thanks.
>> 
>> It was offline for approximately 45 minutes (and it was mostly due to
>> a weird problem that took a while to figure out).
>> 
>> The main motivation for the upgrade was installing OpenID to enable
>> single-sign-on across all the web applications.  Secondarily, it's
>> always safer to keep web applications up to date.  I also did a few
>> cleanups to ensure the next updates will be a little easier.
>> 
>> --
>>    // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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