Debian Stretch's security support ends in mid 2022, and the Foundation's
OS policy already discourages use of existing Stretch machines. That
means that it's time for all project admins to start rebuilding your VMs
with Bullseye (or, if you must, Buster.)
Any webservices running in Kubernetes created in the last year or two
are most likely using Buster images already, so there's no action needed
for those. Older kubernetes jobs should be refreshed to use more modern
images whenever possible.
If you are still using the grid engine for webservices, we strongly
encourage you to migrate your jobs to Kubernetes. For other grid uses,
watch this space for future announcements about grid engine migration;
we don't yet have a solution prepared for that.
Details about the what and why for this process can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Stretch_deprecation
Here is the deprecation timeline:
March 2021: Stretch VM creation disabled in most projects
July 6, 2021: Active support of Stretch ends, Stretch moves into LTS
<- You are Here ->
January 1st, 2022: Stretch VM creation disabled in all projects,
deprecation nagging begins in earnest. Stretch alternatives will be
available for tool migration in Toolforge
May 1, 2022: All active Stretch VMs will be shut down (but not deleted)
by WMCS admins. This includes Toolforge grid exec nodes.
June 30, 2022: LTS support for Debian Stretch ends, all Stretch VMs will
be deleted by WMCS admins
TL;DR: If your tool makes use of Wikimedia Dumps, please restart your
tool today to avoid breakage next week.
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As part of a hardware upgrades[0], the mount points hosting the dumps is
moving. In order to support this move we've needed to update the base
Kubernetes containers to know about the new mount points. For the vast
majority of use cases, a simple tool restart will pick up the new
container and ensure a smooth transition.
For rare non-conforming use cases, here are a few more details. The old
mountpoints were:
/mnt/nfs/dumps-labstore1006.wikimedia.org
/mnt/nfs/dumps-labstore1007.wikimedia.org
The new mountpoints are:
/mnt/nfs/dumps-clouddumps1001.wikimedia.org
/mnt/nfs/dumps-clouddumps1002.wikimedia.org
Currently all four mountpoints are present on toolforge nodes, but the
older mountpoints will be disabled next week. If your tool contains
references to ANY of the above paths, I encourage you to update your
code to use /public/dumps/ instead, which is a persistent server-neutral
link.
Tools using the old mountpoints or accessing dumps via old containers
will start breaking a week from today on Monday, October 3.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309346
Hi all,
We've just configured a simple rate limiter on the Cloud VPS web proxy
that limits traffic from a single IP address to 100 requests/second. The
limit is designed to be high enough that it shouldn't affect most normal
workflows while also being low enough to properly block excess traffic.
This is in response to some misbehaving crawlers that were causing
instability in the proxy service. We applied a similar rate limit to
Toolforge earlier this year.
Please be in touch if this is causing issues for your project.
Thanks!
-- Taavi
Hello!
Thanks to everyone who took the time to provide their valuable feedback on
the Toolhub taxonomy[0]!
After a round of community feedback and input, we made the following
decisions about which categories and values to implement in the first
productionized version of the taxonomy.
=== Summary of Changes ===
1.
Exclude the proposed Programming language attribute.
2.
Exclude the proposed Platform attribute
3.
Revise the Tasks attribute values:
1.
Remove "Creating or uploading content"
2.
Add "Creating new content"
3.
Rename "Generating and recommending content" to "Recommending content"
4.
Revise the Content types attribute values:
1.
Add additional level of hierarchy to group content types and enable
both broad or specific values to be applied.
2.
Remove "Files".
3.
Split "Maps" and "Geographic Data"
Find more details of additional changes on the decision record log page[0]
=== Next Steps ===
The team will continue to observe and improve the taxonomy as the community
continues to use Toolhub.
We will monitor tags and community created lists to determine if certain
attributes would be useful or feasible in the future.
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model#Taxonomy_v2 [1]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Decision_record#Taxonomy_v2
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Seyram Komla Sapaty
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
What: Diffusion git hosting moving to GitLab [0][1]
When: Tuesday 2022-09-06 between 15:00 - 23:00 UTC
Why: Unblocking sunsetting work for Differential/Diffusion [2]
What you can do: If you have not logged into
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/ yet to attach your Developer account and
look around, now would be a great time!
Toolforge tool maintainers can use Striker
(<https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/>) to create git repositories for
each of their tools. Today these git repositories are hosted by
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/>. Starting on 2022-09-06
new repositories will be hosted under
<https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos> instead.
We will also be migrating the 474 existing Striker created
repositories from Diffusion to GitLab starting on Tuesday 2022-09-06.
This process will involve making each existing Diffusion repository
read-only, copying it to GitLab, and finally configuring the Diffusion
repo to be a read-only mirror of the GitLab repo. We hope that this
set of operations will be the least disruptive way to migrate the
repositories to the new hosting platform.
For tool maintainers with git repos that are migrating who *do not*
yet have their Developer account attached at
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/, GitLab will send an email invitation to
join the new repo. Because of some quirks of the login process that we
are using for our GitLab service, the link in this email needs to be
used *after* you have attached your account in order to grant you
access [3].
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296893
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315706
[2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191182
[3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313366#8203450
Bryan, on behalf of the Toolforge administrators
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Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808
In order to enable building containers on code changes, Quarry will be
moving to github on 2022-09-09
https://github.com/toolforge/quarry
The existing gerrit repo will be set to readonly at that point.
Thank you
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*Vivian Rook (They/Them)*
Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>