February 2023 - Cloud - lists.wikimedia.org

[Cloud-announce] Cloud VPS users, please claim your projects
by Andrew Bogott 11 Mar '23

11 Mar '23

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(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 email. Thank you! -Andrew and the WMCS team _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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[Cloud-announce] Short downtime (expected: 2 mins) for ToolsDB
by Francesco Negri 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

As part of the ToolsDB migration work [1], in about 1 hour from now I will stop ToolsDB for a very short time (I expect the downtime to last approximately 2 minutes). You can follow along and report any issues in the #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel. Thanks, Francesco [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301949 -- Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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[Cloud-announce] PAWS changing domains
by Vivian Rook 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Paws is going to change domains from: hub.paws.wmcloud.org to hub-paws.wmcloud.org and public.paws.wmcloud.org to public-paws.wmcloud.org The new domains are currently active, please update your links and start using them. The old domains will be inactive on 2023-03-13 Change can be tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328842 Thank you! -- *Vivian Rook (They/Them)* Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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Does an account rename invalidate OAuth keys?
by Roy Smith 18 Feb '23

18 Feb '23

I've got a tool user DKY-Tools-Bot, that I want to rename to be DYKToolsBot. I've got two sets of OAuth keys: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthListConsumers/view/f1a1f081a16… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthListConsumers/view/f1a1f081a16…> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthListConsumers/view/e9951baeac4… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthListConsumers/view/e9951baeac4…> When I rename the account, will those keys continue to work, or will I need to get new keys?

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Information about Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events
by Srishti Sethi 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Hello everyone, If you are interested in organizing or joining a hackathon event, but cannot attend the in-person Hackathon event in May in Athens, Greece, this email is for you! We encourage communities, user groups or chapters to organize satellite events connected to the in-person Hackathon. These events are to be organized autonomously and share the hackathon's purpose: bringing the global technical community together to connect, hack, run technical discussions, and explore new ideas. You can work with your wiki community to organize these events before, during, or after the main event to onboard newcomers to the technical aspects of the Wikimedia movement, hosting watch parties or meetups in your region to offer an alternative to people who cannot join the in-person event in Athens. To obtain help with organizing an event, you can apply for funds via the *Rapid Grants* maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. The deadline to apply for funding is *March 20*. When preparing for your event, you can reach out to the Hackathon organizing team for support with resources, designing the program, and guidance on getting involved in the global event. Learn more about the satellite events, funding process, and a checklist for organizing on the wiki page: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Satellite_events> [1] Cheers, Srishti On behalf of the Hackathon organizing team [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Satellite_events *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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ssh to tool account?
by Roy Smith 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

I'm trying to simplify my life by avoiding having to log in to my own account on a toolforge bastion and then become my tool. I tried dropping my public key into $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys for my tool, but that doesn't work: > $ ssh -t tools.dyk-tools(a)dev.toolforge.org > tools.dyk-tools(a)dev.toolforge.org: Permission denied (publickey,hostbased). Am I just doing something wrong, or is toolforge set up to disallow that?

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[Cloud-announce] cloud-vps outage
by Andrew Bogott 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

We are having some very concerning instability with the cloud-vps file system. Out of an abundance of caution I have shut off EVERYTHING in cloud-vps to prevent rampant data corruption. I don't expect this outage to last long but will notify when things start up again. Very sorry for the downtime! -Andrew _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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PHP 8 support on WM Cloud
by AmandaNP Wikipedia 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

I apologize if this discussion is already occurring in a task, I am terrible at finding relevant phab tasks people haven't linked. But I assume that PHP 8 can not be loaded onto WM Cloud Servers by a matter of policy, correct? My concern here is, I have some code that just lost security patches due to EOL. The next upgrade only supports PHP 8. It has the ability to leave a huge gap in the security of my code. Is there any plan to support PHP 8 any time soon? AmandaNP (she/her) English Wikipedia CheckUser & Oversighter || Wikimedia Steward UTRS & ACC Developer

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[Cloud-announce] OpenStreetMaps database (osmdb.eqiad.wmnet) is going away
by Andrew Bogott 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Thanks largely to dschwen's hard work, we are about to move the long-neglected postgres osmdb to a volunteer-managed project. Most workloads have already moved to the new service. As far as anyone can tell there is only a single tool still hitting osmdb.eqiad.wmnet. Later in the week, that tool will break when I finally shut down the eqiad.wmnet domain. If your tool is using that service, please refer to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323159 to coordinate migration. - Andrew + the WMCS team _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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[Cloud-announce] pywikibot in PAWS on 2023-02-07
by Vivian Rook 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

it would appear that pwb 8 has corrected some things and the `pwb.py` script will no longer be included in paws when we upgrade, nicely the `pwb` command itself will start working. If you were using `pwb.py` you will likely have to start using `pwb` to run your code. -- *Vivian Rook (They/Them)* Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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