System Administration Team issues (forum, wiki)

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

We have issues with our system administration team, the "VM Team" taking 
care of the forum and wiki machines. A few days ago, incompatible 
interpretations of the system administration process emerged and led to 
personal discussions not yet concluded. Details really don't matter so 
much to me, but I can say that the discussion was about an unauthorized 
package upgrade (on one hand, this breaks the agreed policy; on the 
other hand, this was harmless).

I still do hope that things can be reconciled through a personal, 
private or public discussion, especially considering that no damage was 
done and that I trust both people involved.

However, as a result of the ongoing discussion, and pending its 
resolution, both Forum and Wiki are not actively maintained at the 
moment. So expect delays in the related issues. Emergency maintenance 
(service/machine restart) is still possible: all team members, including 
me, still have all privileges for those emergency operations.

Needless to say, if the conclusion is that incompatibilities cannot be 
solved, we'll need to make changes to the team. And find a solution that 
can last longer, since I wish we had only constructive discussions on 
this topic until at least the end of 2014.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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Re: System Administration Team issues (forum, wiki)

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

On 22/03/2014 Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> tomorrow, Sunday, the wiki will be
> very briefly offline for minor maintenance

This is now done. The downtime was only a few minutes. We are now 
running the latest Mediawiki 1.22.4, which fixes a couple of important 
bugs. Many thanks to Jan for giving guidance before and during the 
upgrade process. Should you notice anything strange, please report it here.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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Re: System Administration Team issues (forum, wiki)

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

On 01/03/2014 Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> both Forum and Wiki are not actively maintained at the
> moment. So expect delays in the related issues. Emergency maintenance
> (service/machine restart) is still possible: all team members, including
> me, still have all privileges for those emergency operations.

This has now been addressed by enlarging the set of people who have full 
access to the virtual machines. Now both Andrew Rist and me have full 
access too.

In the short term, this will allow the team to take care of some 
maintenance activities (for example: tomorrow, Sunday, the wiki will be 
very briefly offline for minor maintenance).

In the long term, I expect we'll bring maintenance closer to the Apache 
Infra standards and processes, so that we can guarantee better continuity.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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