[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] [action required] Jobs started with `jsub` will default to Trusty in 2 weeks

[Alex Monk]

Until March, yes.

On 10 October 2016 at 21:22, MarcoAurelio <strigiwm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use jstart -N <jobname> -l release=precise <etc> for some IRC bots. Will
> that continue working?
>
> Thank you, M.
>
> 2016-10-03 18:08 GMT+02:00 Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org>:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Ubuntu Precise was released in April 2012, and support for it
>> > (including security updates) will cease in April 2017. We need to shut
>> > down all Precise hosts before the end of support date to ensure that
>> > Tool Labs remains a secure platform. This migration will take many
>> > months because many people still use the Precise hosts and our users
>> > are working on tools in their spare time.
>> >
>> > Deprecation and removal timeline:
>> (...snip...)
>> >
>> > * mid October 2016: Jobs started with `jsub` will no longer run on
>> > Precise hosts by default, and will instead run on Trusty hosts. This
>> > means jobs running via cron will migrate to trusty automatically.
>>
>> Two week warning on this potentially breaking change. I plan to switch
>> the default from Precise to Trusty on or after 2016-10-17. If your
>> jobs (including cron jobs) will only run on Precise you need to add
>> `-l release=precise` to jsub commands or `--release=precise` to
>> webservice jobs.
>>
>> Note that pinning your jobs to Precise is a temporary fix as all
>> support for Precise will be removed in March 2017. See
>> [[wikitech:Tools Precise deprecation]] for more information [0].
>>
>> [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tools_Precise_deprecation
>>
>> Bryan
>> --
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>> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]  Sr Software Engineer            Boise, ID USA
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