[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: mothballed instances, marked for death!
Andrew Bogott
abogott at wikimedia.org
Fri Sep 12 23:32:35 UTC 2014
First, let me clarify that this email does NOT apply to any tools within
the 'Tools' project. It's exclusive to self-managed projects outside of
toollabs.
Specific answers, below:
On 9/12/14 6:06 PM, Maciej Jaros wrote:
> Andrew Bogott (2014-09-13 00:34):
>> During the datacenter migration back in March, I 'mothballed' quite a
>> few projects and instances. Such projects had their data and VMs
>> moved to eqiad, but were left in a disabled and/or compressed state.
>> A very large number of those projects and/or instances have been
>> untouched since, presumably because they're no longer of interest to
>> anyone.
>
> How do you define "touched"? Modified? Maybe the project is simply
> working fine and doesn't need modifications.
Instance pages keep a record of when an instance has been created and/or
rebooted. If an instance was created in March, is in the 'SHUTOFF'
state, and has no reboots in its log, I can conclude that it has not
been accessed since the migration from pmtpa in March.
>
> Also. How would a project author know its project is "mothballed"?
> Were the authors notified by e-mail? Are the users of such projects
> aware of this "status"?
During the migration in March I contacted all project admins, both
directly and via this list. Projects were mothballed when I was unable
to contact any project admin. The complete list of projects (active,
mothballed, and deleted) can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_Eqiad_Migration/Progress
Mothballed instances and projects are turned off, so it's unlikely that
they have users at this late date.
Hope this makes sense! This email is a followup to a torrent of related
communications that took place six months ago during the datacenter
migration. I confess that if you missed all that then this may seem
abrupt. But, as I mentioned -- all that's necessary to forestall the
execution is an email requesting that your project be preserved.
-Andrew
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