Fiddling with path's and hostnames? Why? Even if we created unix account per tool - there is still no need to bother current bot ops at all...
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Okay, no doubt, it's easier for you to build the cluster in separate >> project - but it will be far harder for bot operators to move all >> their tools and databases across project. > >> I don't really see many problems with creating for example the >> structure you have in your project on separate instances in bots >> project and later, just switch the current execution nodes to another >> master server and slowly reschedule all running tasks to new execution >> nodes configured as you think it's best. That way all bot operators >> wouldn't even notice the difference! They wouldn't need to anything at >> all. > >> Or if that would be too much work, why not just to change the >> configuration of current bots instances - I don't believe they are so >> broken as you think. Since we launched bnr boxes - nobody who was >> running anything there yet complained about any issues. > >> [...] > > I think the biggest difference (judging from > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Bots, I > don't have an account on Bots) is that Tools is tool-cen- > tric, i. e. tools do not run under their maintainers' ac- > counts, etc. That migration will involve some fiddling with > paths, usernames and hosts anyway, so I think it's much eas- > ier if not one project (and its admins and developers) has > to accommodate both. > > As the number of bots on Bots seems to be limited and time > is not an issue here, I think just waiting a few months is > preferable. > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
