As someone who has been migrating a lot of tools, and who has been at times upset^W frustrated at some of the proverbial devils of the details, I want to thank Bryan, and everyone involved, for the sustained effort to keep toolforge going into the future, and congratulations on a job well done.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 11:04 PM Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > As of 2024-03-14T11:02 UTC the Toolforge Grid Engine service has been > shutdown.[0][1] > > This shutdown is the culmination of a final migration process from > Grid Engine to Kubernetes that started in in late 2022.[2] Arturo > wrote a blog post in 2022 that gives a detailed explanation of why we > chose to take on the final shutdown project at that time.[3] The roots > of this change go back much further however to at least August of 2015 > when Yuvi Panda posted to the labs-l list about looking for more > modern alternatives to the Grid Engine platform.[4] > > Some tools have been lost and a few technical volunteers have been > upset as many of us have striven to meet a vision of a more secure, > performant, and maintainable platform for running the many critical > tools hosted by the Toolforge project. I am deeply sorry to each of > you who have been frustrated by this change, but today I stand to > celebrate the collective work and accomplishment of the many humans > who have helped imagine, design, implement, test, document, maintain, > and use the Kubernetes deployment and support systems in Toolforge. > > Thank you to the past and present members of the Wikimedia Cloud > Services team. Thank you to the past and present technical volunteers > acting as Toolforge admins. Thank you to the many, many Toolforge tool > maintainers who use the platform, ask for new capabilities, and help > each other make ever better software for the Wikimedia movement. Thank > you to the folks who who will keep moving the Toolforge project and > other technical spaces in the Wikimedia movement forward for many, > many years to come. > > > [0]: https://sal.toolforge.org/log/DrOgPI4BGiVuUzOd9I1b > [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Obsolete:Toolforge/Grid > [2]: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Grid_Engine_deprecation#Timeline > [3]: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/ > [4]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-August/003955.html > > Bryan, on behalf of the Toolforge administrators > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation > Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ >
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