[Engineering] [Wikitech-l] Long running tasks/scripts now included on [[wikitech:Deployments]]

Thu Sep 22 14:27:47 UTC 2016

I had been assuming that puppetised crons were not really relevant...

On 22 September 2016 at 15:19, Guillaume Lederrey <glederrey at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Increasing visibility sounds like a great idea! How far do we want to
> go in that direction? In particular, I'm thinking of a few of the
> crons we have for Cirrus. For example, we do have daily crons on
> terbium that re-generate the suggester indices. Those can run for >
> 1h.
>
> My understanding is that those kind of crons should not be considered
> scripts, but standard working parts of the system. Adding them will
> probably generate more noise than useful information. Is this a
> reasonable understanding?
>
> Thanks!
>
>    Guillaume
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > In an effort to reduce surprises and potential mishaps it is now
> > required to include any long running tasks in the deployment
> > calendar[0].
> >
> > "Long running tasks" include any script that is run on production 'work
> > machines' such as terbium that last for longer than ~1 hour. Think:
> > migration and maintenance scripts.
> >
> > This was discussed and proposed in T144661[1].
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > [0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
> >     Relevant diff:
> >     https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=850923&oldid=850244
> > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144661
> >
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