We had issues with NFS mounts in Toolforge as an unintended side
effect of OpenStack upgrades earlier today. While NFS mounts were
broken, many (all?) cronjobs failed. The emails telling maintainers
about these failures did not go out in real time because the mail
system also relies on NFS. When we fixed the mail server thousands of
queued messages started going out. There are still a few emails
sending as I write this, but the queue is almost empty.
As far as we can tell, cronjobs are starting as expected now and the
emails are just left over noise.
Bryan
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Hi Everyone,
We’re happy to announce the launch of the brand new quarterly Technical
Community Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter>. The
newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Developer Advocacy Team. It aims to
share highlights, news, and information of interest from and about the
Wikimedia technical community.
The First Edition of the Technical Community Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2019/October>
launches today! Find out more about what technical contributors have been
up to this past quarter, upcoming conferences & calls for papers, and how
to get involved.
Like all good things, the first edition starts as a prototype. Some ideas
we had in mind for additional sections/categories are “Tool of the Season”,
“Wikimedia in numbers” (i.e. around code review, new developer accounts,
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Hi all,
action=helppanelquestionposter is an API meant for internal use by the
GrowthExperiments extension's web UI, but it has not been formally marked
as internal, so I'm announcing the recent changes [1] to it just in case:
- the 'email' and 'resendconfirmation' parameters have been removed;
- the 'email' response field has been removed;
- the API is now marked as internal.
The functionality provided by the API is not really useful outside of the
web-based workflow it supports, and can be approximated with other, public
APIs, so this is not expected to cause problems to any clients.
[1]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/5…
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