After nearly a decade of mishap and delay, we have updated the WMCS
terms of use. The updated document for toolforge and cloud-vps admins
can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use
and the terms of use for visitors to WMCS sites can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_End_User_Terms_…
There is one significant change in these terms: Cloud-vps projects which
collect personal data will need to include an explicit privacy policy
for their projects. This is section 7.3. For other WMCS users and admins
these documents do not represent any significant change in policy, but
do clarify and finalize many things that were poorly-worded in the
previous TOU, or policies that we have enforced informally without
officially stating.
Please feel free to reach out to WMCS staff if you find any part of
these documents concerning or disruptive to your work on our platforms.
-Andrew
The latest Debian release was finalized on Saturday[0] and today the
Debian cloud team released their first post-release daily[1]. I've built
a base image customized for WMCS cloud-vps and it is now available for
all projects.
Please give it a try and report any surprises that you run into. Once
this release has settled in for a month or two we will begin the gradual
process of phasing out use of Debian 10.0 Buster.
[0] https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610
[1] https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331738