Hello all,
We invite you all to sign up for Toolhub's Quality Signal sessions!
Toolhub <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub> [1] is a
community-authored catalog of Wikimedia tools. On Toolhub, you will be able
to discover new tools in the Wikimedia ecosystem, promote their use in your
wiki community, and help improve them by contributing data. Toolhub's first
release is planned around Wikimania 2021.
The Toolhub team is currently working on identifying quality indicators
through conversations with tool users and developers. As a tool user, how
do you know which tool is reliable, useful, and safe to use? As a tool
maintainer, what makes it attractive to you to contribute to an existing
tool? What information are you looking for to decide whether to join a tool
project? We hope that these sessions will help gather quality indicators
for tools and provide valuable insight toward developing new features to
convey the quality.
Want to organize a quality signal session in your community in August/early
September? Please get in touch on the talk page or sign-up for an already
planned session by adding your name below it: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions> [2].
Your feedback, thoughts, ideas would be valuable!
If you are attending Wikimania, we are running a few introductions and a
feedback session as part of the unconference. Learn more here: <
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub> [3].
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Toolhub team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions
[3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Since there seems to be some error with sssd (LDAP and name services daemon) on the main Toolforge bastion, I am going to reboot it at 21:33 UTC today.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Brooke Storm
Staff SRE
Wikimedia Cloud Services
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Tools admins will be upgrading Toolforge Kubernetes to version 1.19 on Monday July 26th at 1530UTC to catch up to the upstream release cycle. This should be mostly invisible to end users with the occasional pod restarting.
Brooke Storm
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Wikimedia Cloud Services
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A few weeks ago we rolled out a new service for Cloud VPS users:
OpenStack Trove, aka 'Database as a Service.'
Trove provides automatic orchestration of stand-alone database
instances. In brief, you tell Trove to create a database server with a
given size and backend, and it builds and manages the server and
provides you with ready-made access links. You can also manage databases
and users with Trove, or get a root prompt on the backend itself to
create users and databases.
We have only tested this a little bit, so I invite anyone with interest
to give this a try and let us know what works and what doesn't.
There's a longer blog post about this feature here:
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/07/19/introducing-database-as-a-service…
And some slapdash user documentation here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Adding_a_Database_to_a_Cloud_VPS_P…
Bugs and doc-patches are always welcome!
-Andrew + the WMCS team
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We will be upgrading PAWS Kubernetes tomorrow at 1500UTC. User impacts should be minimal, but you might see your notebook server stop and restart during the change at some point. Calico (network overlay) may also be upgraded for both paws and tools, but previous upgrades have had no visible user impact at tall, so that should also be quiet and require no user action.
Brooke Storm
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Wikimedia Cloud Services
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Greetings!
Over the next two weeks our network staff will be adjusting and
restarting the eqiad network switches. This will affect every server and
service running on WMCS, both toolforge and cloud-vps.
We don't expect this to result in noticeable downtime, but any
connections that are active during the restarts will be interrupted.
It's also always possible that some unexpected side-effect will result
in a prolonged network outage.
One switch will be restarted at 15:00 UTC on July 20th, 22nd, 27th,
29th. The restart on the 27th is the most likely to affect cloud services.
To avoid worst-case scenarios the WMCS team will be failing over several
services before the restarts. Most of these changes won't be noticeable
to users but we'll notify in advance of impact if anything dramatic is
expected.
-Andrew
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Hi there,
on Thurs July 22nd at 15:00 UTC (08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST) there is a
planned network maintenance that will affect the availability of the wiki
replica database service.
The expected operation window is of about 5 minutes long and it will affect any
wiki replicas users including Toolforge tools, PAWS, and any other Cloud VPS
project using them.
More information can be found on phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286614
regards.
--
Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
SRE / Wikimedia Cloud Services
Wikimedia Foundation
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Network maintenance will be happening on Tuesday, July 20th at around 1500 UTC that will affect the maps and scratch cluster on both nodes (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286069 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286069>). It should be extremely short in duration (measured in seconds, not minutes). Therefore, we will not be failing them over.
WMCS will keep an eye on the impact to client VMs and will remediate problems where necessary. If all goes well, most services won’t notice.
Brooke Storm
Staff SRE
Wikimedia Cloud Services
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