Every year or so the Cloud Services team tries to identify and clean up unused projects and VMs. We do this via an opt-in process: anyone can mark a project as 'in use,' and that project will be preserved for another year.
I've created a wiki page the lists all existing projects, here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2020_Purge
If you are a VPS user, please visit that page and mark any projects that you use as {{Used}}. Note that it's not necessary for you to be a project admin to mark something -- if you know that you're currently using a resource and want to keep using it, go ahead and mark it accordingly. If you /are/ a project admin, please take a moment to mark which VMs are or aren't used in your projects.
When December arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming resources from unused projects.
If you think you use a VPS project but aren't sure which, I encourage you to poke around on https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ to see what looks familiar. Worst case, just email cloud@lists.wikimedia.org with a description of your use case and we'll sort it out there.
Exclusive toolforge users are free to ignore this task.
Thank you!
-Andrew and WMCS team
There are still 79 unclaimed projects at
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2020_Purge
Please take a moment to look at that page and mark projects that you are using. Unclaimed projects will be in danger of shutdown on December 1st.
Thank you to those of you who have already acted on to this.
-Andrew
On 10/4/20 4:24 PM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
Every year or so the Cloud Services team tries to identify and clean up unused projects and VMs. We do this via an opt-in process: anyone can mark a project as 'in use,' and that project will be preserved for another year.
I've created a wiki page the lists all existing projects, here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2020_Purge
If you are a VPS user, please visit that page and mark any projects that you use as {{Used}}. Note that it's not necessary for you to be a project admin to mark something -- if you know that you're currently using a resource and want to keep using it, go ahead and mark it accordingly. If you /are/ a project admin, please take a moment to mark which VMs are or aren't used in your projects.
When December arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming resources from unused projects.
If you think you use a VPS project but aren't sure which, I encourage you to poke around on https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ to see what looks familiar. Worst case, just email cloud@lists.wikimedia.org with a description of your use case and we'll sort it out there.
Exclusive toolforge users are free to ignore this task.
Thank you!
-Andrew and WMCS team
Please claim your projects at
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2020_Purge
There are still 57 unclaimed projects -- some of them look pretty important!
Here is the complete list of projects that are in danger of shutdown on December 1st:
asyncwiki blog butterfly centralnotice-staging cloudstore codereview collection-alt-renderer commons-corruption-checker commonsarchive community-labs-monitoring cyberbot dashiki discovery-stats etytree fastcci finding-glams getstarted glampipe globalcu grantreview gratitude huggle icinga ign2commons iiab linkwatcher lizenzhinweisgenerator lta-tracker machine-vision math meza mwoffliner ogvjs-integration openocr orch osmit planet privpol-captcha puppet sccache security-tools services signwriting snuggle srwiki-dev video videowiki wcdo wdqs-scaling wikidata-federation wikidata-history-query-service wikidata-primary-sources-tool wikidata-realtime-dumps wikidumpparse wikiloop wikimania-scholarships wikitextexp
There are still 39 unclaimed cloud-vps projects which will be shut down at the end of the month. Please have a look at this list; if there's anything on here that you care about, please visit https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2020_Purge and mark the project as in use.
asyncwiki blog butterfly centralnotice-staging cloudstore collection-alt-renderer commons-corruption-checker commonsarchive discovery-stats etytree fastcci finding-glams getstarted grantreview gratitude ign2commons iiab lizenzhinweisgenerator lta-tracker math meza ogvjs-integration openocr orch puppet sccache security-tools snuggle videowiki wcdo wdqs-scaling wikidata-federation wikidata-history-query-service wikidata-primary-sources-tool wikidata-realtime-dumps wikidumpparse wikiloop wikimania-scholarships wikitextexp
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