Request creation of Zppix-Wiki-AI VPS project
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	Sep 13 2017, 5:40 PM

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Project Name: Zppix-Wiki-AI

Purpose: for me to be able to work with Machine-Learning-Team , and the software they use for test and such (mw-vagrant) is not readily usuable on my machines, therefore i'm asking for a VPS project.
Wikitech Username of requestor: Zppix

Brief description of project: Development/testing instance for myself to work with patches related to my work as a volunteer developer, mostly Machine-Learning-Team tasks

How soon you are hoping this can be fulfilled: ASAP, but its not urgent so if you have more important things to do, by all means do that instead.

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T190852: Request creation of sau226test VPS project
T184762: Request creation of newphp-dev-mv VPS project
T175726: Error messages should not contain relative paths or error codes
Mentioned Here: T175726: Error messages should not contain relative paths or error codes

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Zppix created this task.Sep 13 2017, 5:40 PM

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awight awarded a token.Sep 13 2017, 5:42 PM

We will discuss in our weekly meeting next tuesday :)

Blocking: T175726

Zppix moved this task from Backlog to Wiki-AI on the User-Zppix board.Sep 13 2017, 10:14 PM

Is this something that could be done within the existing ores project?

Broadly speaking, having a Cloud VPS project that is 'owned' a Foundation team (or a single person) is something that has happened in the past but that we try to avoid on a policy basis going forward. This biggest reason for this is that it can become very difficult to keep track of why a VM exists and if it is being used or not in such a project. We have seen this happen multiple times in the past.

It is also potentially problematic to be allocating VMs in the long term to support the work of a single volunteer contributor. A good use of a Cloud VPS instance is providing a shared service such as a testing wiki that multiple contributors in a focused project can use to collaborate on testing proposed changes. A poor use of our resources is providing a 'laptop in the cloud' for a single individual to use as a personal development machine.

In T175846#3618583, @Andrew wrote:

Is this something that could be done within the existing ores project?

I'll talk to them but I was asked to either setup mw-vagrant on my own machine (which due to requirements of mw-vagrant isnt possible for me) or to ask for a vps project, ill check to make sure ill keep you updated (fyi sorry for the delay i was unable to access phabricator due to my own internet issues)

which due to requirements of mw-vagrant isnt possible for me

Can you elaborate? Are you on a chromebook for example?

Andrew moved this task from Inbox to Feedback needed on the Cloud-VPS (Project-requests) board.Sep 25 2017, 3:34 AM

I've talked to scoring platform team and if all goes well i may end up using their testing instance they have in their vps project if so ill close the task but until then ill keep it open this that ok?