Hi all!
For a long time, tool developers have had the option to log their actions to a tool-specific server admin log (SAL), by sending messages like
!log tools.toolname text to #wikimedia-cloud. This lets you and others keep track of which changes were made at what time, in case a problem is discovered later. However, to log messages you need to be on IRC, which can be inconvenient or even impossible on weak internet connections (I sometimes work on tools on the train, where the connection is just good enough for
mosh but not really for IRC).
Instead, you can now use the
dologmsg command, which was implemented at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Prague (
T222244). Call it with your message as the argument(s), and it will relay it to #wikimedia-cloud through wm-bot, automatically including the tool name and the real user name of the caller. For example, when I ran the command
dologmsg 'deployed 83d01bb93b (background UI improvements)'
09:37 wm-bot: <lucaswerkmeister> deployed 83d01bb93b (background UI improvements)
You can also watch this in action in a
demo screencast. Of course, you can still log directly to #wikimedia-cloud, but I hope that doing it from the same shell where you also do your work will be more convenient :)
Cheers,
Lucas
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Lucas Werkmeister
Full Stack Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
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