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Help with a Wikimania presentation on how Cloud Services governance works?
by Bryan Davis 12 Aug '23

12 Aug '23

After talking with both Arturo and Birgit about things we might present at Wikimania, I came up with this abstract for a talk: Co-creating platforms and products: how the Wikimedia Cloud Services team works with the larger Wikimedia technical community to build and maintain Cloud VPS, Toolforge, Quarry, PAWS, and more Did you know that volunteers are involved in planning, building, and maintaining the Cloud VPS and Toolforge projects as co-equals with paid staff from the Wikimedia Foundation? Since the start of the "Labs" project in 2011, one of the guiding principles for WMCS projects has been improving collaboration between Foundation staff and technical volunteers. Learn more about some of the policies and practices that are used to make this collaboration possible. The submission would be under either the "governance" or "technology" tracks. I think it would work best as a panel discussion that is either "hybrid" (some folks in Singapore, some on-line) or pre-recorded video. I think this is something that folks in the community might be interested in learning a bit about. I also think it would be interesting for those of us who have participated in this process to take some time to reflect on how we have worked together in the past and how we might like to see those those processes and practices evolve in the future. To make this talk work well there should be active voices from both the paid and volunteer staff involved. Towards that end, I'm mailing the cloud-admin@ list + 4 of you that I know have been active in the past in helping with Toolforge and/or Cloud VPS admin and features work to gauge your interest in participating. Thoughts? Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Toolforge Build Service beta testing
by Seyram Komla Sapaty 12 May '23

12 May '23

Hello Admins, The build service is ready for the next phase, and we want to get some early users to test it and give early feedback! This next step is going to start this Monday, when around 100 tool maintainers will kindly receive an email asking them to try and test the service. The full list will be made available in the task [1] You can read a draft of the email here[2] Later next week, there will also be a session at the Athens Hackathon (thanks Slavina!) [3] introducing the build service to some new users too, as new user experiences give an important perspective too. We will tentatively stay in this period of feedback for ~1 month. At that point we will sit back, reflect on the feedback (will share the thoughts with you too), and decide if we are ready for a broader announcement (cloud-announcement, blog post, …, to be defined), to start getting wider input. In preparation for this, the team (including volunteers) has been working on setting up some minimal information on wikitech [4] and phabricator [5]. Feel free to add comments to the talk page [6] and/or make changes and fixes to those pages. There's still many things to figure out, and many more will show up during this phase, your help and input will be critical in shaping this service. I encourage you to try it out yourself if you have not, and open any bugs that you find or feature requests that you think would be useful, find the links for those in the feedback page [7]. You can see a more detailed planning in the task [1] (feel free to add comments there too) Thanks for your continued support! [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335249 [2]: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/tQr7TQr20xorkEXXk6Pj [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336055 [4]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service [5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/6529/ [6]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Toolforge/Build_Service [7]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Feedback -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services

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Rethinking how we deploy and offer Cloud VPS (openstack)
by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez 12 May '23

12 May '23

Hi there, in the last quarter, we conducted a research [0] to evaluate and rethink how we deploy and offer Clod VPS (openstack), i.e, our IaaS setup. The research results were written into a wiki page [1] which summary being that the most attractive option for us is to move to a kubernetes + openstack-helm deployment of Cloud VPS / openstack in the future. This project is not trivial, and may be actually a multi-year project, so when / why / how this project will start is yet to be decided. The wiki page [1] contains plenty of details about everything related to the project. Also, a bunch of open questions and unknowns. Feel free to point to gaps or missing information bits in the plans. regards. [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326758 [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Cloud_Services_team/Enhanceme… -- Arturo Borrero Gonzalez Senior SRE / Wikimedia Cloud Services Wikimedia Foundation

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