Pootle downtime

l10n
#1

Pardon my French but the Pootle downtimes are getting ridiculous. Surely to goodness there must be a way of running upgrades without bringing down a live system for a month or two at a time...

Michael

#2

Perhaps we could look at Transifex as an alternative (even though I hate
its UI)?

#3

Mozilla is using a funny TMS called Pontoon. https://pontoon.mozilla.org/.
We are using it to localize Mozilla content and software (into Kabyle, in
my case).

#4

Funny TMS ? I didnt quite get it. Was it sarcastic comment or you really enjoy using it ?
Regards,Chandrakant Dhutadmal.

Mozilla is using a funny TMS called Pontoon. https://pontoon.mozilla.org/.
We are using it to localize Mozilla content and software (into Kabyle, in
my case).

#5

@ Chandrakant Dhutadmal.

No!!! no sarcasm. Just mean that the new TMS (Pontoon), is very smart,
light, easy to use
:slight_smile:

#6

Hi all

Þann þri 14.feb 2017 04:28, skrifaði Adolfo Jayme Barrientos:

Perhaps we could look at Transifex as an alternative (even though I hate
its UI)?

I'm not sure this is right now about switching to another tool, but rather
about maybe changing the setup:
As Michael hinted at, maybe it's better running updates/upgrades on a
parallel system instead of the current live instance. Then switch
IP-addresses or virtual machines once the maintenance is done (and tested).

Yes this is the lesson learned :frowning: that should not be long now, Dwayne and
his team should be over soon and Cloph will proceed. I'll keep you informed
with the info I get.
Cheers
Sophie

#7

14.02.2017 u 10:02, Sophie Gautier je napisao/la:

Yes this is the lesson learned :frowning: that should not be long now, Dwayne and
his team should be over soon and Cloph will proceed. I'll keep you informed
with the info I get.
Cheers
Sophie

Dwayne is managing Mozilla Pootle also, and their upgrade it done frequently (every few weeks, sometimes more then once a week) and usually lasts 5-15 minutes.
Not sure why TDF Pootle upgrade has so much problems since it's similliar to Mozilla size (massive strings in a lot of languages).

Mihovil

#8

I am wondering the server specifications of TDF. What's the CPU and Memery?

Access from China to the TDF servers is too slow, the download speed of
dev-builds.libreoffice.org is less than 20KB/s for me. The pootle is
also slow. While when I download from my own VPS server located in the
U.S. from China, the speed is >500KB/s.

Kevin Suo

#9

I wasn't suggesting switching tools either, they all come with their own annoyances. Transifex doesn't have the greatest UI and adding new locales can take forever. Pontoon is hardly a TMS, it matches 100% matches but other than that, I find it highly ineffective as a TM. There's nothing wrong with Pootle, it's pretty much the best I reckon of the FOSS TMs out there, it's just the way these updates take place that is ineffective on LO.

Michael

Sgrìobh Sophie Gautier na leanas 14/02/2017 aig 09:02:

#10

I personally think that Weblate surpassed Pootle although I like Pootle
very much.
It is more tightly git integrated and very convenient, the developer is
also hosting the solution so he has financial support for development.

http://weblate.org

Yaron Shahrabani

<DevOps - Hebrew translator>

#11

During Fosdem meeting, Dwayne said that we are by far the biggest
database to manage. The fact that we have met a problem on KVM/QEMU was
also not expected. We have learn for the next migration that an isolated
test case on a VM will be the way to go.
For the moment, Dwayne's team has prepared a manual migration, I'm
waiting for their feedback to know for how long we will still have to wait.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Cheers
Sophie

#12

Hi,

During Fosdem meeting, Dwayne said that we are by far the biggest
database to manage. The fact that we have met a problem on KVM/QEMU was
also not expected. We have learn for the next migration that an isolated
test case on a VM will be the way to go.
For the moment, Dwayne's team has prepared a manual migration, I'm
waiting for their feedback to know for how long we will still have to wait.

I would like to thank Dwayne and co for handling the issue under pressure.
Downtime always reminds me that their effort is significant for us localizers.

At the same time it would be useful to have report from the front line
communicating details in a transparent way. For example, regular e.g. daily
status updates about what's going on may help people understand the situation
better.

Cheers,
-- Takeshi Abe

#13

As requested some news from the front line.

Firstly, as the people who create Pootle and are passionate about
localisation, our apologies for this downtime.

The TDF server itself is large, certainly the largest instance we have
seen. This has brought it into a data realm that needed some new
approaches to migrations.

The Pootle team has been working hard to get the LO Pootle server
operational again, working closely with the LO team at both a code and ops
level.

So again we apologise for the downtime. We expect the new server to be
faster.

Once the dust has cleared we will debrief with the LO ops and work out a
plan that will limit future downtime.

I hope that my next email will point to the live server.