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quarry moving to github
by Vivian Rook 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

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 -- *Vivian Rook (They/Them)* Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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cloud-vps and brief toolforge downtime Tuesday, 2022-08-30 @ 15:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Next Tuesday we'll be performing a routine upgrade of the OpenStack software in cloud-vps. During the upgrade, Horizon will be disabled and many OpenStack API calls will fail. VMs and Tools will be largely unaffected, but midway through the upgrade there will be a very brief network interruption which will definitely reset all network connections and may also cause timeouts. The entire upgrade should take around two hours. -Andrew + the WMCS team

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[Toolforge] Toolforge tool maintainers are eligible to vote in current Board election
by Bryan Davis 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

Voting in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election is now open: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Communi…> Per the eligibility rules [0], many technical contributors to the Wikimedia movement are eligible to vote. In this election round proactive work has been done by Taavi and others to ensure that Toolforge maintainers with known SUL accounts are already on the eligible voter list [1]. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Voter_e… [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309754 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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[REMINDER] Toolhub Taxonomy Feedback
by Seyram Komla Sapaty 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

Hello! A friendly reminder that the feedback period ends on the 21st of August. Please spare 5-10 minutes to leave feedback[0] on the Toolhub taxonomy[1]. Toolhub[2] is a catalog of 1500+ tools used by a wide range of Wikimedia contributors: editors, developers, patrollers, researchers, admins and more. We want to make finding and categorizing these tools as easy as possible. The taxonomy is at the heart of how tool search works, and your feedback would help improve it. Whether you are a current user of Toolhub or hearing about it for the first time doesn't matter – your input is valuable and much appreciated either way! === How To Provide Feedback === Use the discussion page[3] of the feedback page to provide your responses to the questions. You will find more details on the feedback page. === Implementation === At the end of the feedback round, the team will evaluate and work on the necessary improvements. This is expected to be completed by the end of September 2022. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model#Taxonomy_v2 [2]: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/ [3]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback Thanks -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services

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Some cloud-vps servers just rebooted
by Andrew Bogott 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Thanks to a profound disagreement between fingers and brain, I've just accidentally rebooted several cloudvirts and they're associated VMs. Everything will be back up shortly, and no action is needed from users unless you have services that need manual restarting. Sorry for the noise! -Andrew

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Current disruptions for VMs/toolforge, disk IO
by David Caro 11 Aug '22

11 Aug '22

Hi everyone! TL;DR; Currently there's a degradation on the service for VMs and anything running on them (ex. toolforge, quarry, paws, ...), you might be able to use the services or they might become too slow, we are working on it and will update when fixed. Long story: We were adding a new ceph node to the ceph cluster. This time the node was in a different subnet, but ceph is supposed to be transparently able to work with many subnets. For some reason the new node was added to the cluster, but it's missing to reply to any heartbeats sent from any other nodes in the cluster and that causes the cluster to keep rebalancing data around, what creates a continuous IO slowness for any clients (like VMs). We are trying to minimize the impact by limiting the amount of data that gets re-shuffled, that slows down the intervention a bit, but should improve the client experience. We are actively working on this, and will update with any changes. Cheers! -- David Caro SRE - Cloud Services Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> PGP Signature: 7180 83A2 AC8B 314F B4CE 1171 4071 C7E1 D262 69C3 "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."

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[REMINDER] Toolhub Taxonomy Feedback
by Seyram Komla Sapaty 11 Aug '22

11 Aug '22

Hello! This is a friendly reminder for you to spare 5-10 minutes to leave feedback[0] on the Toolhub taxonomy[1]. The period for providing feedback ends on August 21, 2022. Toolhub[2] is a catalog of 1500+ tools used by a wide range of Wikimedia contributors: editors, developers, patrollers, researchers, admins and more. We want to make finding and categorizing these tools as easy as possible. The taxonomy is at the heart of how tool search works, and your feedback would help improve it. Whether you are a current user of Toolhub or hearing about it for the first time doesn't matter – your input is valuable and much appreciated either way! === How To Provide Feedback === Use the discussion page[3] of the feedback page to provide your responses to the questions. You will find more details on the feedback page. === Implementation === At the end of the feedback round, the team will evaluate and work on the necessary improvements. This is expected to be completed by the end of September 2022. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model#Taxonomy_v2 [2]: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/ [3]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services

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Node.js v16 now available on Toolforge Kubernetes
by Taavi Väänänen 03 Aug '22

03 Aug '22

Hi all, We've added Node.js version 16 as an available image[0] to Toolforge Kubernetes. Note that you might need to delete and re-create the node_modules directory with the newer runtime for it to work properly. [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Kubernetes#Container_ima… -- Taavi Väänänen, on behalf of the entire Toolforge admin team

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[TOOLHUB] Call For Feedback on Toolhub Taxonomy
by Seyram Komla Sapaty 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Hello! The Toolhub project team wants your feedback[0] on the Toolhub taxonomy[1]. Toolhub[2] is a catalog of 1500+ tools used by a wide range of Wikimedia contributors: editors, developers, patrollers, researchers, admins and more. We want to make finding and categorizing these tools as easy as possible. The taxonomy is at the heart of how tool search works, and your feedback would help improve it. Whether you are a current user of Toolhub or hearing about it for the first time doesn't matter – your input is valuable and much appreciated either way! Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback. === How To Provide Feedback === Use the discussion page[3] of the feedback page to provide your responses to the questions. You will find more details on the feedback page. The period for providing feedback ends on August 21, 2022. === Implementation === At the end of the feedback round, the team will evaluate and work on the necessary improvements. This is expected to be completed and announced by the end of September 2022. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model#Taxonomy_v2 [2]: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/ [3]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback Thanks -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services

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Rstudio in PAWS
by Vivian Rook 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Rstudio has an interest in system users existing that make it difficult to upgrade in PAWS, which doesn't have the same ideas about system users. Currently the single user container is blocked from being upgraded by Rstudio. There are some more Rstudio specific details in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302164 One simple solution would be to remove Rstudio. At the moment there is not a clear path forward for keeping it as a part of PAWS. Are there any opinions on this approach? Thank you -- *Vivian Rook (They/Them)* Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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