Hello cloud-vps users!
It's time for our annual cleanup of unused projects and resources. 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 that lists all existing projects, here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2022_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 February 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 email.
Thank you!
-Andrew and the WMCS team
Happy new year! There are still 86 unclaimed cloud-vps projects in danger of shutdown come February. Please take a moment to review this page and mark any projects that you are using:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2022_Purge
Here's the complete list of unmarked projects:
appservers auditlogging baglama2 baserow canasta capacity-exchange citelearn commons-corruption-checker commonsarchive cyberbot dashiki data-engineering download dumps entity-detection etytree fastcci fr-tech-dev getstarted gitlab-test glamwikidashboard globaleducation gratitude huggle huwiki-dev idm-dev image-suggestion-api incubator ircwebchat isa language lta-tracker machine-learning maps maps-experiments mariadb104-test math mix-n-match ml-collab-2022 mobile mwcli mwstake netops-clab ocrtoy openocr openstack packaging pki pluggableauth puppet-dev reading-web-staging schematreerecommender sciencesource search security-tools services shiny-r spi-tools sre-sandbox sso swift teyora video visualeditor wcdo webperf wikiapiary wikicite wikicommunityhealth wikidata-history-query-service wikidata-query wikidata-reconciliation wikidocumentaries wikidumpparse wikilabels wikilearn wikiloop wikinewsie wikipathways wikispeech wikitextexp wildcat wmcz-stats wmde-dashboards wmde-templates-alpha wmdeanalytics
Thank you to all of you who have marked your projects. We're now down to 48 candidates for deletion, listed below.
Please look again and mark projects which you are using. Komla will we follow up individually on unclaimed projects but let's try to keep his workload under control!
baserow canasta capacity-exchange citelearn commons-corruption-checker commonsarchive cyberbot data-engineering download etytree fastcci getstarted glamwikidashboard gratitude huwiki-dev ircwebchat language machine-learning maps-experiments mariadb104-test math mix-n-match ml-collab-2022 mobile mwcli mwstake netops-clab ocrtoy openocr schematreerecommender sciencesource services swift wcdo wikicite wikicommunityhealth wikidata-history-query-service wikidocumentaries wikidumpparse wikilabels wikilearn wikiloop wikinewsie wikipathways wmcz-stats wmde-dashboards wmde-templates-alpha wmdeanalytics
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