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
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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
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Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team
Wikimedia Foundation
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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/>
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?
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
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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
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
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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.
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Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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