[Systems] Pootle 2.5 porting [Work in Progress]

[Aneesh Dogra]

Perfect. Let's setup an IRC meeting in 2 hours?


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Roberto Rodriguez Alcala <rralcala at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm still settling at my new place with scarce free time but please ping
> me if I can help in anything.
>
> I'll normally make time for it within 2 to 4 hours.
>
> bernie: I'll also keep an eye on munin.
>
> Best,
>
> Roberto
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:
>
>> Resending with the correct localization list address.
>>
>> On 07/03/2013 08:45 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> > +rralcala
>> > +rgs
>> >
>> > On 07/03/2013 04:11 PM, Aneesh Dogra wrote:
>> >> Hey List,
>> >>
>> >> I have finally ported our ancient pootle to pootle 2.5 (with all
>> >> translation and database files) and it seems to be working. Check
>> >> http://newpootle.sugarlabs.org/
>> >>
>> >> The next job is to start porting pootle-helpers and make them work on
>> >> 2.5. If someone can give me a starting point it would be greatly
>> >> helpful. Are there any scripts that might not be useful anymore?
>> >>
>> >> Pootle 2.5 also includes some new inbuilt scripts like commit_to_vcs,
>> >> which of course commits and pushes translation changed to the linked
>> >> code repository [git/svn/vcs], so it probably supersedes our version in
>> >> pootle-helpers.
>> >>
>> >> Any inputs welcome.
>> >
>> > I'm very happy to hear that you've (almost) succeeded in bringing us an
>> > up-to-date Pootle instance! Many before you struggled with this
>> > difficult migration.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I won't be able to help you with the next phase because
>> > I'll be on vacation from Jul 4 to Jul 10 (see my post to systems@).
>> >
>> > Roberto might be able to help you, as he had expressed interest in
>> > helping with Pootle. Aleksey also has lots of experience running
>> > production services and integrating git with other things.
>> >
>> > Checklist for you and whoever assists you:
>> >
>> >  - have you tried rebooting the service to see if it stays up?
>> >
>> >  - have you tried loading the service with some queries or crawling
>> >    it with wget -R to see if it has enough memory?
>> >
>> >  - what monitoring do you need? munin?
>> >
>> >  - are logs being rotated? any log spew?
>> >
>> >  - backups? never transition a VM to production before you have
>> >    good backups
>> >
>> >  - documentation? is the wiki up to date?
>> >
>> >  - try migrating all data from old pootle to new pootle once.
>> >    how long does it take? make sure nothing has been lost
>> >    or corrupted during the migration.
>> >
>> >  - announce the day and time of the cut-off on this list and
>> >    maybe cc sugar-devel@
>> >
>> >  - ensure the CNAME translate.sugarlabs.org has a reasonably
>> >    short ttl
>> >
>> >  - on the announced time, put the production instance in read-only
>> >
>> >  - sync the data one last time, verify the result one last time
>> >
>> >  - switch the CNAME in the DNS
>> >
>> >  - wait until the change propagates
>> >
>> >  - announce the end of the outage
>> >
>> >  - wait for people to complain about the fallout
>> >
>> >  - after a few days, recycle the old VM
>> >
>> > Of course, if anything goes wrong at any time, you must be able to go
>> > back to the previous state. Sysadmin safely! :-)
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>>  _ // Bernie Innocenti
>>  \X/  http://codewiz.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Roberto Rodríguez Alcalá
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