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

Mon Oct 10 20:22:31 UTC 2016

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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