[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: mothballed instances, marked for death!

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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