Hi everybody,

hue.wikimedia.org points to the new backend, but for some reason the users are not recognized (so nobody can log in). Still unsure about what's happening, everything worked fine up before the migration, I'll update the list when I find a solution.

For the moment hue is not available, apologies!

Luca

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 7:46 PM Luca Toscano <ltoscano@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi everybody,

we are going to make hue-next.wikimedia.org (freshly updated to 4.9, latest upstream) the new hue.wikimedia.org. This will mean that:

1) We'll finally remove the last dependency for the Cloudera CDH packages that we still have on our APT repositories (not good after https://www.cloudera.com/downloads/paywall-expansion.html). The hue.wikimedia.org's backend is still running a very old version of Hue with Python 2..

2) We'll move Hue's user management to be fully automated via CAS, so no more requests to the Analytics team to create a new user etc.. Every new user should be able to use Hue straight away without any extra ping (beside the usual ones for wmf/nda LDAP membership of course).

The main downside is that there are some bugs (github issues already opened to upstream) that may cause some bad UX experience, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264896. Due to 1) we'll need to proceed asap, but if anybody is interested in following up on those github issues feel free to :)

If nobody opposes I'll make the switch tomorrow Apr 15th during the EU morning (there will be a little downtime but hopefully limited to one hour).

For any questions or follow up, please ping me on IRC or add a note in the aforementioned task!

Luca