This cleanup is now complete. We freed the following resources:
27 projects (12.5% of total projects)
49 instances (7% of all instances labs-wide)
87 virtual CPUs (5% of all used)
172.5 GiB of allocated RAM (5% of all allocated RAM)
In addition to the things that I removed according to the formal
process, many other instances were voluntarily cleared from active
projects as a result of my prompting, so the actual savings are quite a
bit larger than the numbers reported above.
Thanks for everyone's help and patience with this process! The Labs
team will probably institute a formal, recurring (most likely annual)
reclamation process like this one to prevent the future backlog from
getting so big. I welcome your comments, both positive and negative,
about how this went.
-Andrew
On 10/5/16 10:31 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
Update:
It's a month later, and I'm going to start deleting instances in
unclaimed projects. Here is the list of projects subject to deletion:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Purge_2016#SHUTDOWN_wlmjurytool>cuos
cvresearch
experiment
fatg
ganglia
glam
icinga
mediawiki-docker
mwreview
netflow
nginx
opengrok
oxygenguide
popcorn
pubsubhubbub
safesandbox
structured-wikiquote
tool-renewal
ve-languagetoolwikibrain
wikidata-quality
wlmjurytool
Please speak up NOW if you need any of those projects preserved.
-Andrew
On 8/30/16 10:19 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
Update:
There are still 30 projects that remain unclaimed on
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Purge_2016.
I've emailed the admins of each of these projects directly. If I
don't hear anything I will start to shut down instances on Thursday.
Many thanks to the vast majority of admins who provided me with
prompt and useful feedback about project preservation and cleanup!
-Andrew
On 7/8/16 11:09 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
If you are exclusively a user of tool labs, you can ignore this
email. If you use or administer another labs project, this email
REQUIRES ACTION ON YOUR PART.
We are reclaiming unused resources due to an ongoing shortage.
Visit this page and add a signature under projects you know to be
active:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Purge_2016
Associated wmflabs.org <http://wmflabs.org> domains are included to
identify projects by offered services.
We are not investigating why projects are needed at this time. If
one person votes to preserve then we will do so in this round of
cleanup.
In a month, projects and associated instances not claimed will be
suspended or shutdown. A month later if no one complains these
projects will be deleted..
- Andrew (on behalf of all Labs Admins everywhere)
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