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URL length limit for toolforge?
by Roy Smith 17 Dec '20

17 Dec '20

The the following (absurdly long) URL: > https://spi-tools-dev.toolforge.org/spi/timeline/MariaJaydHicky?users=Love2… <https://spi-tools-dev.toolforge.org/spi/timeline/MariaJaydHicky?users=Love2…> gives me: > <html> > <head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head> > <body> > <center><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1></center> > <hr><center>openresty/1.15.8.1</center> > </body> > </html> >  >  >  >  >  >  Which isn't terribly surprising. As far as I can tell, the request never gets as far as my app. Is there a specific hard limit on how long a URL can be handled by the WSGI / routing layers?

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[Cloud-announce] ToolsDB Maintenance - 2020-12-16 @ 1700 UTC
by Brooke Storm 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

In yet another effort to restore replication and preserve the redundancy of the data in ToolsDB (user writable database in Toolforge), we need to take the database (tools.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs) completely offline at 1700 UTC on 16 Dec. Apps that depend on the ToolsDB service will fail during the outage (which will take at least an hour, and we aren’t entirely sure exactly how long—expect multiple hours). This will be much faster than the last outage because we are doing a straight copy of the binary database files between the servers. Details of this mess and efforts to restore the replication service can be found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266587 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266587> If we succeed in producing a viable copy of the database on another system, we will also perform an upgrade on the hypervisor it is on before closing the maintenance period. That should be an additional hour or so. We appreciate your patience with this process. It is very important that we establish a second copy of this database, especially in light of recent crashes (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253738 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253738>). Brooke Storm Staff SRE Wikimedia Cloud Services bstorm(a)wikimedia.org IRC: bstorm_ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list Cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce

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password for thanos?
by Roy Smith 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

I'm trying to connect to https://thanos.wikimedia.org/ <https://thanos.wikimedia.org/>. It's asking for my "Wikimedia Developer Username" and password, but I'm not sure which credentials it wants. Is this the same username I use to log into my shell account on dev.tools.wmflabs.org <http://dev.tools.wmflabs.org/>? If so, I have no clue what my password is, since I only ever use ssh key authentication for that.

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[Cloud-announce] Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign
by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

TLDR: Wiki Replicas' architecture is being redesigned for stability and performance. Cross database JOINs will not be available and a host connection will only allow querying its associated DB. See [1] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign> for more details. Hi! In the interest of making and keeping Wiki Replicas a stable and performant service, a new backend architecture is needed. There is some impact in the features and usage patterns. What should I do? To avoid breaking changes, you can start making the following changes *now*: - Update existing tools to ensure queries are executed against the proper database connection - Eg: If you want to query the `eswiki_p` DB, you must connect to the `eswiki.analytics.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` host and `eswiki_p` DB, and not to enwiki or other hosts - Check your existing tools and services queries for cross database JOINs, rewrite the joins in application code - Eg: If you are doing a join across databases, for example joining `enwiki_p` and `eswiki_p`, you will need to query them separately, and filter the results of the separate queries in the code Timeline: - November - December: Early adopter testing - January 2021: Existing and new systems online, transition period starts - February 2021: Old hardware is decommissioned We need your help - If you would like to beta test the new architecture, please let us know and we will reach out to you soon - Sharing examples / descriptions of how a tool or service was updated, writing a common solution or some example code others can utilize and reference, helping others on IRC and the mailing lists If you have questions or need help adapting your code or queries, please contact us [2] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_communication>, or write on the talk page [3] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign>. We will be sending reminders, and more specific examples of the changes via email and on the wiki page. For more information see [1] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign>. [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_communication [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign -- Joaquin Oltra Hernandez Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list Cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce

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Toolforge kubernetes maintenance today 2020-12-10 @ 15:30 UTC
by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Hi there! Today 2020-12-10 @ 15:30 UTC we will perform an upgrade of the Toolforge kubernetes cluster [0]. We don't expect any major disruption of the service, but we detected in past upgrades that some components might be restarted, causing brief interruptions of network flows. Given the amount of worker nodes we have, more than 50, the operation will take us at least a couple of hours. Tools maintainers: you don't have to do anything during this operation, but if you detect anything weird please contact us either in the phabricator task [0], in the IRC channel #wikimedia-cloud or in the cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org [1] mailing list. regards. [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263284 [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud -- Arturo Borrero Gonzalez SRE / Wikimedia Cloud Services Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Cloud] Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2020: December 11th, 17:00 UTC
by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Hi Everyone! A reminder that the Coolest Tool Award <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> event will happen online this Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC[^1]. Here is more information about the venue: - The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki <https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki> channel - The following venues can be used for socializing: - Youtube live stream chat (MediaWiki <https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki>) - Twitter #CoolestToolAward <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CoolestToolAward&f=live> - #wmhack Telegram group <https://t.me/wmhack> / IRC #wmhackconnect <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wmhack> See you on Friday! Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020 [^1]: 17:00 UTC is 9:00 PT, 18:00 CET, 22:30 IST. More timezones in timeanddate.com <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:01 PM Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> will happen online > on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC[^1]. > > The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted > video and chat channels for socializing. We will send more details soon. > > Save the date, and join us celebrating the great work volunteer developers > do for the Wikimedia communities. > > We hope to see you there! > Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020 > > [^1]: 17:00 UTC is 9:00 PST, 18:00 CEST, 22:30 IST. More timezones in > timeanddate.com > <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17> > -- > Joaquin Oltra Hernandez > Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation > -- Joaquin Oltra Hernandez Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation

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PAWS kubernetes upgrade
by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

Hi there, we are about to upgrade the kubernetes version that runs PAWS, from 1.6 to 1.17. We don't expect any interruptions major on the service, perhaps only some hiccups when pods are restarted/rescheduled. More information is available in this phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268669 The operation may take something between 30 minutes and 1 hours, and we are starting soon after I finish sending this email. Please, ping us if you see anything wrong. regards. -- Arturo Borrero Gonzalez SRE / Wikimedia Cloud Services Wikimedia Foundation

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Request for deletion of Wikitech account and change in shell account name
by Muhammad Usman 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

Hi All, I had created a Wikitech account(Usmanmuhd) quite some time ago. I forgot the password and when I tried to use the forgot password I wasn't able to so I went ahead and created another account/s. Could someone please help me out with the below request. 1. Delete the other accounts except *Usmanmuhd* which are associated with this email address(me@usmanmuhd)? 2. Change the shell account name for Usmanmuhd since it contains sensitive information as a part of the name. Thanks in advance, Usman

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Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2020: December 11th, 17:00 UTC
by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi Everyone! The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> will happen online on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC[^1]. The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing. We will send more details and links soon. Save the date, and join us celebrating the great work volunteer developers do for the Wikimedia communities. We hope to see you there! Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020 [^1]: 17:00 UTC is 9:00 PST, 18:00 CEST, 22:30 IST. More timezones in timeanddate.com <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17> -- Joaquin Oltra Hernandez Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation

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[Cloud-announce] Cloud VPS users, please claim your projects
by Andrew Bogott 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

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 the lists all existing projects, here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2020_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 December 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 task. Thank you! -Andrew and WMCS team _______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list Cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce

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