[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Announcing Toolforge Debian Stretch Grid Engine deprecation

2022-03-10 Thread Huji Lee
I too use bash files (see https://github.com/PersianWikipedia/fawikibot/tree/master/HujiBot/grid/jobs) and am planning to move them from grid to k8s in the next few weeks. I have found the process well-documented and am hoping for the transition to be easy, like Amir said. Since at least two

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Announcing Toolforge Debian Stretch Grid Engine deprecation

2022-03-10 Thread Amir Sarabadani
I recently migrated most of pywikibot jobs from grid engine to k8s and to my surprise, it was actually quite easy. I have lots of tasks (been running bots since 2008). So much that it showed redaction in the total number of jobs in SGE. One thing that helped me that I collapsed everything into a

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Announcing Toolforge Debian Stretch Grid Engine deprecation

2022-02-18 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 2/16/22 17:34, Russell Blau wrote: Also, it is not possible to load Pywikibot in the tf-python39 runtime because a required module (requests, fromhttps://python-requests.org) is not available. What is the process for requesting (no pun intended) that this (or any other resource) be added

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Announcing Toolforge Debian Stretch Grid Engine deprecation

2022-02-16 Thread Russell Blau
I can see already that trying to migrate to this new toolforge-jobs framework is going to be a long and winding road. First of all, the documentation on "choosing the execution runtime" leaves much to be desired. There is a list of 23 available runtimes to choose from, but no guidance on how

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Announcing Toolforge Debian Stretch Grid Engine deprecation

2022-02-16 Thread Roy Smith
From my perspective of a Toolforge user, one of the issues I see is that it's often not clear how to map the "friendly command line interface" into concepts I already understand about the lower level tools. For example, the webservice script does some useful stuff. But, it wasn't clear

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Announcing Toolforge Debian Stretch Grid Engine deprecation

2022-02-16 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 2/15/22 21:46, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi, Why are we upgrading to Buster instead of Bullseye? According to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_upgrade_policy Buster will be end of life around August this year. So we're either stuck with an older version for a while or we

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Announcing Toolforge Debian Stretch Grid Engine deprecation

2022-02-15 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi, Why are we upgrading to Buster instead of Bullseye? According to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_upgrade_policy Buster will be end of life around August this year. So we're either stuck with an older version for a while or we have to do this whole exercise again much