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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