Toolserver-l April 2013

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02 May '13

enwiki_p needs dumped and re-imported. select count(*) from imagelinks where img_to = 'Flag_of_Seattle.svg'; returns 69 when it should return 2 John

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Maintenance cassia s5-rr
by Marlen Caemmerer 01 May '13

01 May '13

Hello, I will move dewiki for cassia off the SAN back to the local storage. This will happen on Friday, 3rd May 1900-2100 UTC I will take this copy of s5-rr offline but due to the other copy of s5-rr you will probably not experience downtime but slower answers. Kind regards Marlen/nosy

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Thoughts and questions to WMDE members about TS and expectations
by Silke Meyer 01 May '13

01 May '13

Dear toolserver crowd, especially dear WMDE members among you! tldr; I am asking the WMDE members committed to the toolserver: What can be a satisfactory state of the server given this strange situation of transition? A few thoughts about the current state of the toolserver. This e-mail is born because I'm not satisfied: I took over the management for this project at WMDE three months ago. The toolserver's performance is not better than before (that's my perception). And all I am doing is reacting to things - though I would like to be in a more active position. This e-mail is also directed to the WMDE members whom we promised to improve the toolserver's performance. (For transparence, this mail is on the public list in English.) I would like to make some of my thoughts transparent: First of all, I'm in an awkward situation with contradictory tasks: On the one hand, I am trying to do things to keep the toolserver running. On the other hand my job is to set up the roadmap for its abolishment. The first means to argue for investments into hardware. This entails to talk about rack space and additional possibilities for power supply, both of which are at their limits in the data centre. The second means to propose the date of shutting down the server which is so close that new investments seem a funny idea. Do we want new contracts with a data centre we are about to leave next year? Also, getting hardware there is a lenghty process as the data centre is far away and physically maintained by others (WMF staff) who don't live next door to it either. (To clarify: It's *not* that WMDE refuses to spend the money. I am simply wondering if and how my work makes sense.) Secondly: I think that my task is fuzzy: that "the toolserver runs (better)". What is that supposed to mean? When is this goal attained? Has this ever been put in a way that it becomes an accomplishable task? I refuse to struggle with undefined tasks that I'll never get done in a satisfying way. I miss a plan! Some might say this is a community-driven project that doesn't work like this. It develops the way it develops and planning is impossible. But I have spent quite some time thinking about questions like these: * Has there ever been a systematic planning of resources for the toolserver? * Is there any agreement about growth and limits of the toolserver? Does it grow with growing demands? I think I implicitly understand the toolserver is supposed to grow infinitely. This makes it hard to stabilize the server: We only learn about its growth when the admins inform us that the system hits its technical limits. (They did inform us, but the future of the project was unclear already then.) Thirdly, I have been thinking about how to go on. * Looking at my own roadmap I think this is the moment to stop the toolserver from growing. We might rather want to talk about strategies to improve performance by systematically cleaning up what has moved to Tool Labs. Or by cleaning up the remains of about 300 inactive accounts to free space. * When does the toolserver no longer accept new accounts? Tool Labs shall be ready in weeks. Once it's there, I think it would be fair to send new people to Tool Labs right away. To cut a long story short: I am not sure what you expect me to do in this situation. Please clarify! I don't want to deal with a task without a clear task. Best, Silke -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Reminder: Toolserver Office Hour April 30th, 4 p.m. UTC
by Silke Meyer 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Hi all! Just a quick reminder: Later today Marc, Lydia and I will be holding an office hour for tool maintainers and toolserver users. This is a good opportunity to talk about http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en and get answers to other questions you might have related to it. When? April 30th, 4 p.m. UTC Where? #wikimedia-office on freenode (Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours) Hope to see you later, Silke -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Doxygen and coverage
by Dr. Trigon 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Admins! Could please someone take care of TS-1301 [1]? This ticket is now open for quite a while and having the possibility to generate docs and coverage reports on the TS would be very favourable. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1301 Thanks a lot and Greetings! DrTrigon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlF9C4MACgkQAXWvBxzBrDCb1wCePoUKlWV5/ngVMbCurybgmJJl IbAAn0g8UmQTsjRlrzyLJjScngHSaKny =mapo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cronjobs
by Dr. Trigon 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Admins! As I noticed it seems as if the cronjobs are executed correct at the moment, so may be TS-1635 [1] can be closed. Though the statistics on [2] are gone. Furthermore there are several cron-servers on [3] now. Can someone give me a brief introduction on what changed and how this works now? [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1635 [2] http://munin.toolserver.org/Login/hawthorn/cron_jobs_sh.html [3] http://munin.toolserver.org/Login/index.html Thanks a lot and Greetings DrTrigon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlF9C3UACgkQAXWvBxzBrDBD8gCfX3DQBFuXpWxEiVGE7mbDjyyo VmIAn1GT319aY/SnyRFPY0K0bFLMJ/SM =WaTS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Tool Labs maintenance (rescheduled)
by Marc A. Pelletier 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

- "Whaddya say we try that again, huh?" - "Yes, yes. Yes. Without the oops." So, now that I have power and internet again, a reschedule for tomorrow (Thursday) at the same time: === Planned outage === When: Thursday April 25 at 18:00 UTC Duration: 1 hour Impact: * Jobs running on the grid engine will be stopped, and execution nodes will be temporarily disabled; * The login server will be restarted during the window, ending active sessions; * The web service will be unavailable during the maintenance window; and * Running processes not scheduled through the grid engine will be killed. Recovery plan: In case of unplanned failure during the maintenance window, configuration will be rolled back to the current version (that is, the gluster-based project storage will remain in place) and a new window will be planned after postmortem. -- Marc

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office hour on IRC
by Lydia Pintscher 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hey :) Silke, Marc and me will be holding an office hour for Toolserver users. This is a good opportunity to talk about http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en and get answers to other questions you might have related to it. This will happen on Tuesday (30 April) at 4pm UTC. More details are on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours I hope you'll be able to attend. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Maintenance for sql-s1-rr, sql-s2 and sql-s5-user
by DaB. 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hello, for a kernel-update I hereby announce downtime of sql-s1-rr-a, sql-s2 and sql- s5-user for tomorrow FRIDAY, 22:30 UTC. The downtime of each host will be 20-40min. Not affected will be sql-s5-rr. sql-s1-rr will be switched to rosemary so no downtime there too, but sql-s1 will be slower. See [1] for details. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1311 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885

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Replag
by John 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

I see s1 and s5 are extremely lagged status.toolserver shows no issues. Is this being looked into?

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