December 2010
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System update
Here’s a quick system update regarding Web Translate It’s system and your data.
This morning we completed our upgrade to Rails 3, a new version of our programming framework. We also upgraded ruby, our programming language to the newest version.
We also made important changes on how your data is saved. Until today, your data was hosted on a server located in Newark, USA. A backup of the...
Happy holidays from Web Translate It
Thank you for making 2010 the biggest year for Web Translate It so far!
Stay tuned, we’ve got big plans for 2011!
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web_translate_it gem v 1.7.1 pre-released
I just pre-released a new version of the web_translate_it gem. This new version dramatically improves the performance of wti pull and wti server. It also fixes a few other bugs.
See the changelog for more information.
To update your client: gem install web_translate_it --version 1.7.1.pre
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Possible maintenance window on Sunday, Dec 26th,...
Web Translate It could be unavailable for a few minutes on Sunday, Dec 26th, 8:00 GMT as we will release an important update to the service. We expect the downtime to not exceed 1 hour.
This is the second step of a major service shift (the first step was upgrading our database server). This time, we’ll upgrade our programming framework Ruby on Rails (from 2.3 to 3.0), as well as the programming...
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About today’s outage
We had planned 1-hour maintenance window today to upgrade our database server. Unfortunately, we encountered some unexpected issues while upgrading and the service went back up around 10.30AM.
Your data is safe and the database upgrade went fine. However we’re still working on recovering full capacity at the moment.
What happened
After upgrading the database I decided to upgrade a few other...
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Maintenance window on Sunday, Dec 12th, 08:00 GMT
Web Translate It will be unavailable on Sunday, Dec 12th, 08:00 GMT as we upgrade our database to PostgreSQL 9. We expect the downtime to not exceed 1 hour.
This is the first step of a major service overhaul. This upgrade will allow to implement database replication on a spare database server.
You should follow @webtranslateit on Twitter for live updates.
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Comments enhancements
I just released an enhancement on the comments system. This update will help large teams to communicate more efficiently.
Comments can now be separated by languages. A French translator is now able to comment only in French (which will only be visible to the managers and other French translators) or globally (visible by everyone).
It is no longer possible to notify a specific user. Instead,...