We will be performing maintenance on the Cloud VPS network next
Tuesday (2024-05-21) starting at around 14:00 UTC. During this window
we will be replacing some software on the Cloud VPS network router.[0]
During the maintenance window there will be a brief period during
which Cloud VPS and any services hosted there (including Toolforge and
PAWS) will not have any external network connectivity. Based on tests
done in our staging environment the full outage should last for less
than a minute assuming there are no unexpected issues.
There is no action required on your side, unless your tools are not
resilient to unexpected network outages - in that case you may need to
manually restart those tools after the maintenance is complete.
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364459
Taavi (+ the rest of the WMCS team)
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Hi,
You can ignore this message if your tools do not query abuse filter tables in Wiki Replicas.
In case you missed the announcement in Tech News <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/16>, I'm letting you know about the upcoming removal of four fields from two database tables.
The fields "af_user" and "af_user_text" of the "abuse_filter" table and "afh_user" and "afh_user_text" of the "abuse_filter_history" table are being removed in favor of the new "af_actor" and "afh_actor" fields, respectively. The new fields are already in sync with the legacy ones and available for read operations.
If you run queries involving those fields, you have to update them. The queries will now be structured the same way as, e.g., queries with "rev_actor" of the "revision" table (i.e., by JOIN'ing the new fields with "actor.actor_id"). There are examples of minimalistic migration of each field in the Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361996> that tracks the migration.
No deadline has been proposed for the removal, but it will probably have been done by the end of May unless someone asks for more time.
Thanks,
Matěj Suchánek
Dear all,
Has anyone figured out how to use Toolforge Build Service for a tool (job +
webservice) written in golang?
I'm trying to switch qrank.toolforge.org to Toolforge Build Service, but
I'm struggling with it.
To debug this, I wrote a minimal job that just prints a hello message to
stdout:
https://github.com/brawer/wikidata-qrank/blob/main/cmd/hello/main.go
Because Toolforge is emulating Heroku, it appears necessary to tell
buildpack which binaries should get packaged into the container. The "//
+heroku install" comment on line 14 of the following go.mod file seems to
do the trick, together with listing the binaries again in a Heroku Procfile:
https://github.com/brawer/wikidata-qrank/blob/main/go.mod#L14https://github.com/brawer/wikidata-qrank/blob/main/Procfile
When running the following command on login.toolforge.org, the project
seems to be built just fine:
$ toolforge build start https://github.com/brawer/wikidata-qrank
Some interesting log message from build service:
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:31.170521374Z Building packages:
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:31.170585858Z - ./cmd/hello
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:31.170599159Z - ./cmd/qrank-builder
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:31.170608711Z - ./cmd/webserver
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.563334902Z
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.563404532Z [Setting launch table]
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.563417703Z Detected processes:
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.563427021Z - hello: hello
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.563437573Z - qrank-builder: qrank-builder
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.563446463Z - webserver: webserver
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.563488376Z - web: hello
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.577068596Z
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.577163104Z [Discovering process types]
[step-build] 2024-04-30T18:13:44.579933448Z Procfile declares types -> web,
qrank-builder, hello
The "web: hello" in the launch table looks very suspicious; it's not what
my Procfile states (see link above). But at least the build seems to have
been successful:
$ toolforge build show
Build ID: qrank-buildpacks-pipelinerun-vhcrt
Start Time: 2024-04-30T18:13:03Z
End Time: 2024-04-30T18:14:00Z
Status: ok
Message: Tasks Completed: 1 (Failed: 0, Cancelled 0), Skipped: 0
Parameters:
Source URL: https://github.com/brawer/wikidata-qrank
Ref: N/A
Envvars: N/A
Destination Image: tools-harbor.wmcloud.org/tool-qrank/tool-qrank:latest
Now, I'd be happy to just run the "hello" job and see its output log.
However, when I do this:
$ toolforge jobs run --command hello --image tool-qrank/tool-qrank:latest
--mount=all --filelog
The job runs for about five minutes (?!?!), and then:
$ cat hello.out
ERROR: failed to launch: bash exec: argument list too long
So clearly something is off... but what? How to run a golang tool on
Toolforge when using Build Service?
Thanks for any help,
— Sascha
Hi all,
I used to start the webservice of the parliamentdiagram tool using the command:
webservice php7.3 start
This isn't working anymore - has this been deprecated?
Thanks
David Richfield
+49 176 7266 3368
Hi,
Today, when I tried to log into login.toolforge.net after about a couple
weeks of not having logged in, I got an error about the fingerprint for the
server having changed. Did we upgrade servers?
Anyway, I updated my known_hosts file and was able to login but then I
noticed that opening zsh (which is my default shell) takes a longer time
than usual. Normally, when I log into toolforge the process takes less than
0.5 second, but now it seems to be taking several seconds. Granted, I have
also *Oh My* *Zsh* installed, but regardless .. did we move to slower
servers by chance?
Asking here because I'm not entirely sure if this is a bug or even an
issue. Does anyone have related experiences or knowledge to share?
Thanks,
Huji
I will be upgrading the cloud-vps openstack install on Thursday,
beginning around 16:00 UTC. Here's what to expect:
- Intermittent Horizon and API downtime (maybe an hour or two total)
- Inability to schedule new VMs (also for an hour or two)
Toolforge users will be unaffected by this outage. Existing, running
services and VMs on cloud-vps should also be unaffected.
In case you want to follow along at home, this is tracked as
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356287
-Andrew + the WMCS team
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Hello everyone,
The third edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (April
2024) is available at this link: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20…
>.
This newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Language team. It provides
updates from January–March 2024 quarter on new feature development,
improvements in various language-related technical projects and support
efforts, details about community meetings, and contributions ideas to get
involved in projects.
To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page. If
you have any feedback or ideas for topics to feature in the newsletter,
please share them on the discussion page, accessible here: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_enginee…
>.
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the WMF Language team
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
I've swapped the secondary dev.toolforge.org bastion to a new server
running Debian 12. As usual, the new SSH fingerprints have been
published on Wikitech[0].
The new bastion no longer has the full list of packages installed that
were required for Grid Engine usage. If there is a package missing
from the new bastion that you would find useful, please file a new
Phabricator task in the Toolforge project[1].
If there are no major issues found I will also swap the main
login.toolforge.org bastion to a new server in a few days. I'll send a
separate announcement when that happens.
[0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:SSH_Fingerprints/dev.toolforge.org
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/toolforge/
Taavi
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(If you don’t work with pagelinks table, feel free to ignore this message)
Hello,
Here is an update and reminder on the previous announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>
regarding normalization of links tables that was sent around a year ago.
As part of that work, soon the pl_namespace and pl_title columns of
pagelinks table will be dropped and you will need to use pl_target_id
joining with the linktarget table instead. This is basically identical to
the templatelinks normalization that happened a year ago.
Currently, MediaWiki writes to both data schemes of pagelinks for new rows
in all wikis except English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (we will start
writing to these two wikis next week). We have started to backfill the data
with the new schema but it will take weeks to finish in large wikis.
So if you query this table directly or your tools do, You will need to
update them accordingly. I will write a reminder before dropping the old
columns once the data has been fully backfilled.
You can keep track of the general long-term work in T300222
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300222> and the specific work for
pagelinks in T299947 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299947>. You can
also read more on the reasoning in T222224
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224> or the previous announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>
.
Thank you,
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Is https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_upgrade_policy
accurate?
I shows support ending as follows:
Buster: September 2023
Bullseye: September 2025
I have the impression that VPS support for Buster is ending in May or June
of this year.
Also, if I look at an instance's OS in Horizon I see
debian-12.0-bookworm (deprecated 2024-04-10)
I'm not clear why this would be deprecated already.
Thanks for clarifying.