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