Toolserver-announce January 2013

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New Rule: SGE-constraint for bots
by DaB. 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hello all, today I discovered (thanks to the mailing-list) that a few users have run several bot-instances in parallel on willow. I'm sure that these people did it by mistake, but it is annoying nevertheless and it is easy to fix: Use SGE. The problem is that I wrote several of eMails about "use SGE!" already and somehow it did not work as good as it should (if you converted you stuff already: thank you and you can stop to read here ;-)). I understand that we all are busy with our lives and Wikipedia and that we all love to "do it right…later", but as you know that resources of the toolserver are limited. So I hereby declare the following new rule: All bots have to run by SGE. A bot is every program or script that makes changes at a Wikimedia project. It does not matter if the bot runs periodically or continuous. The only exclusions are a.) interactive bots, b.) bots that can't run by SGE yet and c.) if you start a bot by hand for testing (no screen, no cron, no while). The rule will become active at Sunday, 10. February 2013. Exception b is almost NEVER the case, if it runs on a shell it is VERY likely that it can run by SGE. Some time ago I wrote a simple SGE-how-to at [1]. Maybe you all can take a look and correct things and make things more clear. In very most cases the using of SGE IS easy. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/SGE_for_beginners -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Split of s2/s5 (cassia)
by DaB. 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

Hello all, for historical reasons s2 and s5 are together on one host (cassia). Because cassia is quite overloaded, the sharing will end soon and I will move s2 away. For this I need your help because s2 and s5 share also the user-databases and there is not hint which user-database is needed where. So if you use user-databases for joining with s2 (two!) please add the name of the user-database to [1] until Friday, 8. February 18:00 UTC. It will take only a few minutes to add your user-databases there, so please do it. If you do not your user-databases there your tools will break after the split, but of course that can be fixed later. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/User:Dab/s2-userdatabaes -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Re-Import of commonswiki at cassia (sql-s2+sql-s5)
by DaB. 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Hello all, I successfully converted the commons-binary-dump from the WMF to the traditional dump-format today. I will now re-import commons to everywhere we have it already, and I will start with cassia (s2+s5) Tomorrow, Friday, after 13:00 UTC. During the re-import the commons-copy of cassia will be inaccessible. The import will take some hours (depending on the load of the server) and to be safe I say hereby that commons on cassia will be away for 24h. Another thing: My personal eMail-Server will receive an hardware-update starting Friday 17:00 UTC: So it could be hard to reach me by mail for a few hours. In urgent cases, try to reach Nosy. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Downtime of s7 starting tomorrow
by DaB. 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Hello all, good news: We got a s4 and a s7-dump from the WMF, I transfer them to the toolserver at the moment. Because the integration of Wikidata in hu/hewiki will start soon AFAIK, I will begin with s7. Because the dumps are in the new binary-format the actual "import" will be quite fast, the downtime of s7 should not be too long (at few hours at maximum, but I can't promise anything). So I hereby declare a read-only-time and a downtime of s7 Tomorrow, starting 16:00 UTC. The handling of s4 will take more time, because I have to convert the dump in the traditional format first. I will notice you when downtimes are needed. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Toolserver-announce January 2013