Hi all!
For a long time, tool developers have had the option to log their actions
to a tool-specific server admin log (SAL), by sending messages like !log
tools.*toolname* *text* to #wikimedia-cloud. This lets you and others keep
track of which changes were made at what time, in case a problem is
discovered later. However, to log messages you need to be on IRC, which can
be inconvenient or even impossible on weak internet connections (I
sometimes work on tools on the train, where the connection is just good
enough for mosh
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage/enwiki/Q15992114> but
not really for IRC).
Instead, you can now use the dologmsg command, which was implemented at the
Wikimedia Hackathon in Prague (T222244
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222244>). Call it with your message as
the argument(s), and it will relay it to #wikimedia-cloud through wm-bot,
automatically including the tool name and the real user name of the caller.
For example, when I ran the command
dologmsg 'deployed 83d01bb93b (background UI improvements)'
the following entry was added to the QuickCategories SAL
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools.quickcategories/SAL
:
09:37 wm-bot: <lucaswerkmeister> deployed 83d01bb93b (background UI
> improvements)
You can also watch this in action in a demo screencast
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toolforge_dologmsg_QuickCategories_demo.webm>.
Of course, you can still log directly to #wikimedia-cloud, but I hope that
doing it from the same shell where you also do your work will be more
convenient :)
Cheers,
Lucas
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