For those who don't know, this has been a project close to Christians heart for YEARS.

He and all of the group now known as openSUSE Heroes (even before the idea of a volunteer admin team was a concept) have worked tirelessly to get this done.

This hasn't just been a technical challenge, but an organisational one. It's required change in the Project (the aforementioned openSUSE Heroes), and changes within SUSE & MicroFocus to facilitate and empower them.

Plus, of course, the obvious challenges of actually getting the hardware where we wanted it with the bandwidth that we need.

It has been an exceptional example of just what can be accomplished through tenacious contributions, and I hope they lead to many more examples (though hopefully a little easier now we've figured out how to do it ;))

So to all involved, but especially Christian, on behalf of the whole community, thank you.

On 19 July 2017 at 00:04, Christian Boltz opensuse@cboltz.de wrote:

Dear openSUSE Community,

sometimes plans change while you are working on them ;-)

The plan for yesterday evening was to move and update some of the localized wikis. Things worked better and faster than expected, and in the end we moved *all 18 localized wikis* from Provo to Nuremberg and updated them to MediaWiki 1.27 :-)

This means *all* openSUSE wikis are now running on MediaWiki 1.27 and support the features announced for the english wiki last week [1].

I didn't have time to change the <feed> tags to the new <rss> tags in all wikis yet. I'll do that in the next days, but I won't complain if someone is faster and does it in some of the wikis ;-) (use the search to find pages containing "<feed", and check https://en.opensuse.org/Help:RSS_feeds for the <rss> syntax)

For those who are interested in statistics:

• moving 18 wikis in about 6 hours means about 20 minutes per wiki - can someone beat this? ;-)
• during the move, we wrote about 500 lines on IRC to coordinate everything
• this helped to keep the read-only time of each wiki short - I'd guess on average each wiki was read-only for 30 minutes (again, can someone beat this? ;-)
• we moved about 10 GB of uploaded files and 1.6 GB of mysql dumps from Provo to Nuremberg yesterday (which was sometimes "funny" because the server in Provo limits the connection to 10 MBit)

And now - have fun with the updated wikis and the upcoming openSUSE Leap 42.3!

Regards,

Christian Boltz

[1] https://news.opensuse.org/2017/07/10/english-opensuse-wiki-will-be-updated-a...

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