PAWS will be switching k8s clusters to get to the latest k8s that openstack
currently supports (1.23). This should occur on 2023-03-20 around 13:00
UTC. Anything that was running at the time on the current (old) cluster
will need restarted.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328489
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*Vivian Rook (They/Them)*
Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Hello all,
As you may already know, the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 will take place in
Technopolis, Athens, Greece, on May 19-21. This in-person event will gather
the global Wikimedia technical community to connect, hack, run technical
discussions, and explore new ideas.
*If you plan to join, please register as soon as possible.*
Registration for the Hackathon will be open until we reach the event's
maximum capacity [0]. If you plan to join, we encourage you to register as
soon as possible, as there are currently around ten slots left. We also
encourage you to book your travel and accommodation shortly. You will find
more information on the travel [1] and accommodation [2] pages. You are
also welcome to help us improve those pages by adding additional
information about Athens and how to travel there.
For people who already registered, remember to confirm your attendance by
filling out the additional field in the registration form (see the email
sent by hackathon(a)wikimedia.org on March 13). Please note that WMF's
scholarship process concluded in January, and aside from the 51 people who
got a scholarship confirmed, we cannot support people with funds or visa
documents. Therefore, most participants must organize their own travel to
stay in Athens.
This year's edition will focus on bringing together people who already
contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, know how to find
their way around in the technical ecosystem, and can work or collaborate on
projects more autonomously. For people new to our technical environment,
there are other newcomers-friendly events you can join throughout the year
- feel free to improve the list. [3]
*You can organize a satellite event with your local community.*
For people new to the technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects or who
cannot attend the in-person event, a great option could be to organize an
autonomous, local satellite event to the Hackathon. These events can occur
before, during, or after the in-person event. If you are considering
running an event like this, contact your local community to get started! If
you need financial support, please note that the deadline to apply for the
current round of Rapid Funds is March 20 [4].
*Proposals for the in-person program are welcome until April 4.*
The Hackathon is organized as a participant-driven event and lives from the
active participation of its attendees. Because this year's edition is
focused on reconnecting with your technical community peers in person, most
of the program will take place onsite. You can propose a session by
creating a task on the Phabricator board. Find more information on the
Program page [5].
Similar to the satellite events, some online sessions, in parallel or ahead
of the event, may be organized autonomously by participants. In any case,
participants are free to work on their projects, whether in-person or
online, and connect to the technical community on the Hackathon channels
[6].
If you have any questions, feel free to use the Hackathon talk page or to
reach out to the organizers at hackathon(a)wikimedia.org.
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Hackathon organizing team
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Participate#Registr…
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Travel
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Accommodation
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Documentation#Event…
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Satellite_events
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Program
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Connect
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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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I am in the process of standardizing[0] the role names in WMCS cloud-vps
to conform with upstream conventions[1]. That requires me to rename two
existing user roles, 'user' and 'projectadmin':
- The role previously called 'user' will now be called 'reader'
- The role previously called 'projectadmin' will now be called 'member'
Despite the (IMO) less obvious names, a 'reader' can still log into
project VMs, and a 'member' can still create and delete VMs. Taavi has
thoughtfully upgraded the documentation about what roles can do what;
the complete docs can be found at
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_services_user_roles_and_righ…
This renaming is phase one; phase two will involve switching to the
default upstream access rules for these two new roles.
Right now the old and new roles are co-existing in our system, but soon
I will entirely delete the old 'user' and 'projectadmin' roles. In the
meantime, please let me know if you find stray references to the old
role names, or if you find yourself unable to perform Horizon actions[1]
that you were previously able to do. Or, more seriously, able to do
things that you were not previously able to do!
Sorry for any inconvenience caused!
-Andrew
[0] Our OpenStack deployment has a very long history; it is older than
most deployments. That means that many conventions established in our
cloud now differ from the consensus standards created among newer
clouds. Periodically I try to update our cloud to conform to these new
standards; it reduces tech debt and also increases the chances that
official OpenStack documentation will be useful to our users.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330759
[2] There is one edge case in Horizon that may require you to switch
projects in order to refresh the role permissions.
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Hi there!
Today 2023-03-06, in a few minutes, we will restart the Toolforge internal
network, A brief interruption of network communications is expected during the
maintenance.
This is because we're re-deploying calico to the kubernetes cluster [0].
No action required on your side.
regards.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328539
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Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
Senior SRE / Wikimedia Cloud Services
Wikimedia Foundation
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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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/>