Cloud-vps users:
There are now a mere two weeks remaining before Debian Buster ends its period of long term support. After June 30th, security upgrades will no longer be available for this release and VMs running Buster will become ever more risky and difficult to maintain.
As of today there are still 143 Buster servers running in our cloud[0] -- some of them are probably yours! Please take some time to delete VMs that are no longer needed, and rebuild those that are still needed with a more modern release, ideally Debian Bookworm.
There is a task for your project on phabricator[1] where you can update your progress. If you have vital VMs that you absolutely cannot rebuild by July 15th, please update the associated task with your plan and anticipated timeline. WMCS staff will start shutting down unacknowledged VMs in mid July in order to attract the attention of users who do not read email or follow phabricator.
Buster's end of life has been a long time coming, and frequently announced. If you've been waiting for the right time to think about this, the time is now.
Thank you!
-Andrew + WMCS staff
[0] https://os-deprecation.toolforge.org/
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6373/
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Maybe we can organize a "Buster Busting" event the next couple of weekends where people can volunteer to help each other with this?
I assume once you've gone through the steps once or twice it gets a lot easier?
Cheers, -Travis
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 11:27 AM Andrew Bogott abogott@wikimedia.org wrote:
Cloud-vps users:
There are now a mere two weeks remaining before Debian Buster ends its period of long term support. After June 30th, security upgrades will no longer be available for this release and VMs running Buster will become ever more risky and difficult to maintain.
As of today there are still 143 Buster servers running in our cloud[0] -- some of them are probably yours! Please take some time to delete VMs that are no longer needed, and rebuild those that are still needed with a more modern release, ideally Debian Bookworm.
There is a task for your project on phabricator[1] where you can update your progress. If you have vital VMs that you absolutely cannot rebuild by July 15th, please update the associated task with your plan and anticipated timeline. WMCS staff will start shutting down unacknowledged VMs in mid July in order to attract the attention of users who do not read email or follow phabricator.
Buster's end of life has been a long time coming, and frequently announced. If you've been waiting for the right time to think about this, the time is now.
Thank you!
-Andrew + WMCS staff
[0] https://os-deprecation.toolforge.org/
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6373/ _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.o... _______________________________________________ Cloud mailing list -- cloud@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2024, 12:27 AM Andrew Bogott abogott@wikimedia.org wrote:
Cloud-vps users:
There are now a mere two weeks remaining before Debian Buster ends its period of long term support. After June 30th, security upgrades will no longer be available for this release and VMs running Buster will become ever more risky and difficult to maintain.
As of today there are still 143 Buster servers running in our cloud[0] -- some of them are probably yours! Please take some time to delete VMs that are no longer needed, and rebuild those that are still needed with a more modern release, ideally Debian Bookworm.
There is a task for your project on phabricator[1] where you can update your progress. If you have vital VMs that you absolutely cannot rebuild by July 15th, please update the associated task with your plan and anticipated timeline. WMCS staff will start shutting down unacknowledged VMs in mid July in order to attract the attention of users who do not read email or follow phabricator.
Buster's end of life has been a long time coming, and frequently announced. If you've been waiting for the right time to think about this, the time is now.
Thank you!
-Andrew + WMCS staff
[0] https://os-deprecation.toolforge.org/
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6373/ _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.o...
The steps to migrate a server are very project-dependent. If the project has good documentation about how to install their software, where their data is stored, where the configuration is and what it does, etc then someone with Linux experience can usually reinstall the project on a new server fairly quickly. If that information doesn't exist then migration by anyone other than the original maintainer will be very difficult.
I will say that an OS change is a good time to onboard new maintainers.
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 2:50 PM mdsiam O mdsiamo849@gmail.com wrote:
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2024, 12:27 AM Andrew Bogott abogott@wikimedia.org wrote:
Cloud-vps users:
There are now a mere two weeks remaining before Debian Buster ends its period of long term support. After June 30th, security upgrades will no longer be available for this release and VMs running Buster will become ever more risky and difficult to maintain.
As of today there are still 143 Buster servers running in our cloud[0] -- some of them are probably yours! Please take some time to delete VMs that are no longer needed, and rebuild those that are still needed with a more modern release, ideally Debian Bookworm.
There is a task for your project on phabricator[1] where you can update your progress. If you have vital VMs that you absolutely cannot rebuild by July 15th, please update the associated task with your plan and anticipated timeline. WMCS staff will start shutting down unacknowledged VMs in mid July in order to attract the attention of users who do not read email or follow phabricator.
Buster's end of life has been a long time coming, and frequently announced. If you've been waiting for the right time to think about this, the time is now.
Thank you!
-Andrew + WMCS staff
[0] https://os-deprecation.toolforge.org/
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6373/
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