Toolserver-announce December 2010

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FYI: Changing of interwiki-bots-account-approval
by DaB. 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Hello all, with the beginning of the next year (2011) I will not longer accept new interwiki-bot-accounts, if: -The homewiki of the bot has at least one active interwiki-bot, which runs on the toolserver, OR -The homewiki has less then 1000 articles. (There can be exceptions if there is a good reason of course) The homewiki is that wiki where the bot starts and where the account-requester got his/her bot approved (see [1]). If the account-requester requested the account only for the interwiki-bot, the request will be rejected; if he/she requested the account also for other things, only the interwiki-bot will be denied of course and the rest of the request will be handled the normal way. For interwiki-bots which runs already on the toolserver, there is no change at the moment. When you find a free minute: Please add your bot to [2] and check if there are inactive bots listed for your wiki. The goal of this change is to limit the number of interwiki-bots on the toolserver (and improve our documentary a bit). Sincerly, DaB. [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Account_approval_process, Request process, Point 4. [2] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Wikimedia_bots -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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General maintenance notice: January 3rd, 2011
by River Tarnell 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On the morning (UTC) of January 3rd we will performance general maintenance[0] on all servers. Services will be affected as follows: Service | Expected impact --------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Login server: nightshade | See below. Login/web servers | Some software unavailable for < 30 minutes. All other services | No impact. Start time: Monday, 3rd January, 12AM UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=1&year=201… End time: Monday, 3rd JAnuary, 3AM UTC (estimated) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=1&year=201… Details: We will perform general software upgrades. A list of software to be upgraded can be found at: <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Admin:Pending_maintenance_tasks> Some software may be unavailable or function incorrectly during the upgrade process, which we estimate will take under 30 minutes. -- Python 2.6 (/usr/bin/python2.6, /opt/ts/python/2.6/bin/python) will be removed during the maintenance. This was announced in the previous maintenance and no problems have been reported with Python 2.7, which is currently the default Python. -- The default locale on the Solaris login servers will change to en_US.UTF-8. This was already the case for all services except "cron". -- We will reinstall nightshade, the Linux login server, as Solaris. This was announced in September and again in November. No major issues have been reported which would block the migration. For more information, see <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2010-September/000…> and <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2010-November/0003…> - river. [0] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Maintenance_schedule -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0Z+m8ACgkQIXd7fCuc5vK7ZgCfRUJNpjo7AXpoh/r48B92YPkb BvUAn27En7d+5q6qPwNWBBSg6kJLzv7J =xTT4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Reboot of amaranth
by River Tarnell 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, At 19:20 UTC Wikimedia accidentally rebooted amaranth (the Toolserver system in the US) during maintenance. This caused an outage of JIRA, MediaWiki, FishEye and MySQL database replication for around 5 minutes. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0JFhIACgkQIXd7fCuc5vLatQCdHgJjQYDJxDQFOs55CNbDHeoS HwEAnj0iQldsfA5kwkRjafrLHu9+wSXL =lDUg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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General maintenance notice: December 6th
by River Tarnell 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On the morning (UTC) of December 6th we will perform general maintenance[0] on all servers. Services will be affected as follows: Service | Expected impact -----------------------------+------------------------------------- Entire platform | As described in maintenance schedule[0] JIRA, MediaWiki, FishEye | Under 30 minutes outage for each service | during upgrade Start time: Monday, 6th December, 12AM UTC End time: Monday, 6th December, 8AM UTC (estimated) Details: This is a schedule general maintenance, which we use for various non-critical tasks. The expected outages are as described in the maintenance schedule[0]. Most of the changes for this maintenance are in the local TS software, /opt/ts; all software will be upgraded to the latest version, and some minor changes will be made. The full list of upgrades, including Perl modules, is available here: <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Admin:Pending_maintenance_tasks> The following changes will also be made: * Mono will now install directly in /opt/ts instead of /opt/ts/mono/2.0. If you call "mono" without an absolute path, this will not affect you. If you currently call "/opt/ts/mono/2.0/bin/mono", you should change this to remove the full path before the maintenance. * The preferred OpenSSL is now /opt/ts/bin/{amd64,}/openssl, which is OpenSSL 1.0.0b instead of /usr/sfw/bin/{amd64,}/openssl (0.9.7d). This should not affect users, but if you currently call the version in /usr/sfw with a full path, you may wish to remove the path so you automatically use our version, which is better. We will additionally make some changes to how the software is compiled; if you have compiled your own C or C++ programs, this will affect you, and you should read the section "Changes to ts-specs environment" below. If you do not have any locally-compiled software, this change will not affect you. During the maintenance, some software may not work correctly (e.g. programs or libraries not found). -- JIRA, FishEye, MediaWiki and phpMyAdmin will also be upgraded. -- The default Python version will change from 2.6 to 2.7. If you currently use /usr/bin/python, this change will happen for you automatically. If you use /usr/bin/python2.6 explicitly, you will need to change to /usr/bin/python2.7 to use the new Python. If you have programs which don't work under Python 2.7, you should a) report this in JIRA, and b) switch to /usr/bin/python2.6 before the maintenance. If there are no problems with Python 2.7, we will remove Python 2.6 from the system during the next maintenance (January 2011). We will patch Python 2.7 to revert the fix for bug 1054943[1], which introduced a regression affecting Unicode normalisation[2][3]. -- The default "gcc" will become GCC 4.5.1, rather than 3.4.3. This may affect you if you build locally-installed Perl modules, especially if these modules use C++ code. This is described in more detail below. -- Changes to ts-specs environment =============================== This section only applies to users with locally-compiled C or C++ software. The new version of ts-specs (/opt/ts) installed during the maintenance has switched the default compiler from Sun Studio to GCC 4.5.1. This is described in more detail at [4]. In brief: * You should change from your current compiler (Studio, GCC 3.4.3 or GCC 4.4) to GCC 4.5.1, /opt/ts/bin/gcc. * If you recompile any Studio- or GCC 3.4.3-compiled C++ code with the new compiler, you need to recompile all of it, because the ABIs are not compatible. * GCC 3.4.3 will no longer be installed. * If you use Studio-compiled versions of C++ libraries in /opt/ts/<lib>/<version>/, you should change to the GCC version in /opt/ts/<lib>/<version>-gcc/. The following libraries require special handling: * Studio-compiled versions of MySQL++ and VIPS were previously installed in /opt/ts/lib. If you use these libraries, you should switch to the version that we will install in /opt/ts/<lib> (where <lib> is "mysqlpp" or "vips"). The Studio-compiled version will remain available for now. * Studio-compiled versions of ImageMagick, sigc++ and cairomm are currently installed in /opt/ts. They will be replaced with GCC-compiled versions in the same path, and Studio-compiled versions will not be available. If this adversely affects you (because you use these libraries and need time to migrate), you should let us know before the maintenance. [0] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Maintenance_schedule [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue1054943 [2] http://bugs.python.org/issue10254 [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2010-November/003633.html [4] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2010-November/0003… -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzz1HIACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIcAQCfffiUXeXvhgCdFT6wHtEFWc1X MZ4An1yUKY6ZFzeGhxcPFgXhA7DUDH7j =RfuR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Hardware failure affecting s2/s5
by River Tarnell 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The s2/s5 server is currently experiencing some hardware issues. As we currently only have a single server for s2/s5, this may result in outages for these clusters. We have raised an SR with Sun to replace the faulty hardware. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkz3JdYACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKmTQCgugY4R+z/yoXTqZW3lR298QGJ fgYAoL07GM2/1shgFj6+Av9b4KZBcvmX =3kiC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Toolserver-announce December 2010