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(a)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
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Hi!
There will be a general CloudVPS network maintenance on 20202-10-29, from 16:00
UTC to 17:00 UTC.
During the operation window, all cloud services might be intermittently down,
inaccessible.
This operation affects all CloudVPS projects, including Toolforge, PAWS and
Quarry. Services running in the cloud might fail to contact external entities,
and connections to ToolsDB, NFS, wiki-replicas or LDAP might be affected as well.
In the best case scenario, the changes (and downtime) will be barely noticed.
The maintenance consist on introducing new hardware equipment in to the CloudVPS
edge network. You can find additional details in Phabricator [0].
regards.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265288
--
Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
SRE / Wikimedia Cloud Services
Wikimedia Foundation
>Hello,
>
> Is there any mean to redirect an url to the toolforge url? So "
> http://www.mydomain.com" --> "https://mytool.toolforge.org"?
>I think that you can make a redirect in the panel of the provider where you
>bought the domain. :)
>Best regards,
>Zoran.
Hello Zoran,
Because of the https, a simple redirect does not work without SSL
certificate. That's what explained to me the help of the domain provider
where I have my domain. It sounds quite rational. As written from Bryan
toolforge does not provide a native system for that, so generate a
certificate. Nevermind, I will focus on other topics.
Psemdel
Le mar. 20 oct. 2020 à 22:33, <cloud-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> a écrit :
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> Hello,
>
> Is there any mean to redirect an url to the toolforge url? So "
> http://www.mydomain.com" --> "https://mytool.toolforge.org"? On Heroku, it
> works by adding "http://www.mydomain.com" to a list, and through with
> Cname
> record + DNS server. It is not essential, but as I bought the domain a
> few months ago...
>
> Psemdel
>
Hello,
Is there any mean to redirect an url to the toolforge url? So "
http://www.mydomain.com" --> "https://mytool.toolforge.org"? On Heroku, it
works by adding "http://www.mydomain.com" to a list, and through with Cname
record + DNS server. It is not essential, but as I bought the domain a
few months ago...
Psemdel
On Tuesday (2020-10-20) we'll be performing upgrades on the hardware
that hosts the postgres database used by the cloud-vps 'maps' project.
This will probably result in that project being unable to serve tiles
for the duration of the upgrade.
Things will be down for an hour or two, starting around 17:00 UTC.
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Dear all,
We’re really happy to announce the second edition of the Coolest Tool Award
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award>!
Tools play an essential role at Wikimedia, and so do the many volunteer
developers who experiment with new ideas, develop & maintain local & global
solutions and enhance the experience for Wikimedia communities.
There are incredible many great tools out there. It’s time to celebrate
this & to make the great work volunteer developers do more visible to
everyone :-)
The Coolest Tool Award ceremony will take place virtually this year, given
the current circumstances around events and travel. We will provide more
details soon about the specific logistics and dates.
The award is organized & selected by the *Coolest Tool Academy 2020*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2020>.
We plan to recognize the greatest tools in a variety of categories, for
examples you can look at last year’s categories
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2019>.
As no one can possibly know all the cool tools out there, we’re looking for
some help & inspiration: Please point us to the tools that you think are
great - out of any reason you can think of!
Please use this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5ZmXXamn9sRsagEiiZcUZDn1Ga0sF3Xm…
to recommend tools *by October 14, 2020*. You can nominate as many tools as
you want by filling out the form multiple times.
This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject
it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling,
see the survey privacy statement:
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award_2020_Survey_Privac…
Thank you very much for your ideas & recommendation(s)!
We will continue to spread the word over the next 1-2 days, but if you get
the chance, please feel welcome to share this information with others too!
Thanks :-)
Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020
--
Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation