Why do we need an internal WMF-only instance of Quarry?

Labsdb is redacted but internal analytics store isn't.

So you're going to provide all WMF employees (and presumably contractors etc. as well?) with access to all the research data via some sort of corp Quarry instance?

Such a thing has been proposed, primarily for eventlogging information. It would be for anyone with enough clearance to access it. Currently nobody is spending time nor energy in building such a thing, AFAIK. I do believe it will be quite useful however

So actually it wouldn't be just for WMF employees, it would actually be something in production that some of the groups defined in puppet get access to (via SSH proxying I guess) instead of (or in addition to?) providing direct MySQL access to the DBs?

There already exists such a group (researchers I think?) so this might piggy back off it. Or not - we don't know. Will be determined if / when someone starts working on this I guess :)

That was the group I had in mind, I know for a fact it's not 100% WMF employees, but there's a bunch of different analytics groups and I wasn't sure if that was the right one. Will adjust the title.

@yuvipanda have you changed your mind about this in favor of jupyter goodness?