[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: mothballed instances, marked for death!
Maciej Jaros
egil at wp.pl
Sat Sep 13 10:31:54 UTC 2014
Thank you for your clarification. That makes sense :-).
Andrew Bogott (2014-09-13 01:32):
> 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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