Toolserver-l December 2012

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Jira Auth broken
by Marlen Caemmerer 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello, we have an issue with Jira authentication since 25th August. It seems the syncronisation with the crowd server is broken but I dont know why and filed a bug at Atlassian. Cheers Marlen

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Block mail from dysgo.org?
by Christopher David Howie 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

We've been receiving messages from this domain at unblock(a)toolserver.org and they appear to be related to this: <http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/l44r1/i_just_got_this_email_at_work_i_…>. Viral advertising for some film. In reality, it's a message with a crapload of images attached serving no purpose for us. Can we just block this whole domain from sending mail to toolserver accounts? It's a nuisance, and the messages are quite large. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ PGP fingerprint: 2B7A B280 8B12 21CC 260A DF65 6FCE 505A CF83 38F5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to you and therefore you can read it. Additionally, by sending an email to ANY of my addresses or to ANY mailing lists to which I am subscribed, whether intentionally or accidentally, you are agreeing that I am "the intended recipient," and that I may do whatever I wish with the contents of any message received from you, unless a pre-existing agreement prohibits me from so doing. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message.

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Mail forwarding not working
by Tim Landscheidt 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Hi, for those of you not having seen TS-1553, mail forwarding seems to have stopped working. So if you haven't received the usual job reports that you were expecting, you might want to login to all servers and check if there is mail for you. You can query all servers by: | for SERVER in clematis hawthorn nightshade ortelius willow wolfsbane yarrow; do | ssh $USER(a)$SERVER.toolserver.org ls -l /var/mail/$USER | done replacing $USER with your username. Tim

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Amsterdam Hackathon 2013
by Maarten Dammers 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi everyone, Unlike previous years the big European Hackathon won't be in Berlin, but in Amsterdam. We're aiming to do the hackathon in May 2013 with a preference for the weekend of Saturday the 25th. To make sure this is a good weekend I've set up a straw poll at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#Straw_Poll . Please fill it out so we can finalize the date! Thank you, Maarten Wikimedia Nederland Ps. Please forward to any relevant lists I might have missed.

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Status of enwiki_p databases
by MZMcBride 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Hi. As far as I'm aware, enwiki_p on both rosemary and thyme is corrupt. Is there an update about getting a fresh dump and re-import? I looked at <http://status.toolserver.org/>, but it seems to (still) wrongly indicate that everything is okay. <https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1414> has been open since June 2012. MZMcBride

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Merry Christmas
by DaB. 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Hello all, 2012 was not very kind to the Toolserver and 2013 will not be much better. But nevertheless we have got dozen of new users and even more new tools, so 2012 had also its good parts :-). I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Enjoy nice presents and good food, and lets hope that the non-favored relatives stay not that long ;-). Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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cronie / SGE errors
by Bryan Tong Minh 23 Dec '12

23 Dec '12

Hi, I am sometimes having problems submitting jobs to SGE via cronie. In these cases the jobs appear to not submit properly. For example, /home/project/d/e/l/delinker/cdh.e1028584 shows the following error: /usr/bin/cgcreate: can't create cgroup users/delinker/1028584-undefined: Cgroup, operation not allowed cgroup change of group failed /usr/bin/cgdelete: cannot remove group 'users/delinker/1028584-undefined': No such file or directory The cronie entry is: */3 * * * * qcronsub -l h_rt=0:35:00 -l arch=* -l virtual_free=100M -N cd $HOME/bin/start-cd It appears to not always to be a problem. Does anybody know what is going on here? Bryan

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Sumana Harihareswara as tools community liaison for Labs
by Sumana Harihareswara 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

I'm now acting as community liaison for bots and tools makers, including Toolserver users, who are interested in trying Wikimedia Labs. This means I am specifically interested in the Tool Labs environments (which are currently the "bots" and "webtools" Labs projects). So starting next week, I'll be collating and sorting the feedback that's been sent on these lists and listed elsewhere, improving documentation, leading live or asynchronous feedback and training sessions, and helping prioritize and add details to TODO lists for people who want to work on improving the Tool Labs environment. For example, https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Move_your_bot_to_Labs will get better. :-) I expect to perform this role through at least the autumn of 2013. I just had a chat with Ryan Lane, CT Woo, and Erik Moeller today to solidify details about that so I could announce it to you. :-) Ryan remains the technical lead on Wikimedia Labs *infrastructure* (the foundation that serves all Labs projects). I'm looking forward to working with Wikimedia Germany, other Toolserver supporters, DaB., and the tools and bots communities to help improve their experience. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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My meeting with Denis Barthel today
by DaB. 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Hello all, I just came back from a meeting with Denis Barthel. Denis is a long-time employee of Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) and works in the resort "Community". Denis was assigned to help to normalize the relationship between the Toolserver, WMDE and the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF); especially in the field of WikiLabs/Toollabs. His opinion is that if we all work together the move from the toolserver to Wikilabs can work. I still doubt that, but I agreed to give WMF a little more AGF (assume good faith). As you know the general meeting of WMDE decided that the WMF has to guarantee that the features of the toolserver exists in WikiLabs within 6 months (otherwise WMDE has to look for a way to continue the toolserver). Denis asked me to provide such a list of short-time-base. For this I will take our list [1] and convert the items into "needed features" (AFAIS most of the points are already features). When I am done with this I will send you the link and you all can add features I forgot. In the beginning of the new year WMDE will give WMF the list and then the 6 months start. WMDE (or WMDE together with WMF) plans to offer help for moving tools to WikiLabs in 2013 – during the 6 months and behind if WMF can provide all needed features. I rejected to help with that behind very basic actions (like answering questions by WMF-staff). So if you plan to move your stuff, please notice that I will not wait on the other side and catch you ;-). I also make it very clear that the only way to move a tool is by the author because you are the only persons who can adapt the code (the special case that another user plan to adopt an open-source-tool aside). To re-phrase it: I have no problem if somebody likes to move to WikiLabs now and I will help him or her as best as I can – but only on the toolserver-side. There will be no support by me (and I guess the same for Nosy) on the WikiLabs-side – there you have to work with the WMF-folks. Just to let you known. Sincerely, DaB. P.S: Denis asked if there is a list of (important) tools. AFAIK we have none, but maybe we should find a way to build such a list in medium-term. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Toolserver_features_wanted -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Datacenter Maintenance tomorrow
by Marlen Caemmerer 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Hello, tomorrow will be hardware maintenance for toolserver. It will be between 11 am - 20 pm UTC. Several hosts may be offline for a little while during this time - especially daphne (s4) and hyacinth (s3, s6 and s7). They get some hardware replacements. The OSM host ptolemy might go offline for new hardware, too. Cheers Marlen/nosy

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Toolserver-l December 2012