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Bring a discourse instance for technical questions to production
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After running a pilot in https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org we are interested in moving from an experiment in a Cloud VPS to a more robust production hosting solution for Discourse as a question and answer platform.

  • Developer-Advocacy considers discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org a success
  • Security review of https://github.com/discourse/discourse RoR app
  • Security review of extensions ?
  • Workflow for software upgrades and maintenance
  • Plan agreed with SRE
  • Wikimedia Single Sign-On for Discourse (related: T124691)
  • Discourse migration from wmflabs to production.

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Qgil created this task.Nov 17 2017, 10:16 PM
Qgil created subtask T180854: Create discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org (pilot instance).Nov 17 2017, 10:24 PM
bd808 updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 18 2017, 5:12 PM
JeanFred added a subscriber: JeanFred.Nov 18 2017, 6:55 PM
Qgil mentioned this in T180854: Create discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org (pilot instance).Nov 19 2017, 9:28 AM
Qgil updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 19 2017, 10:46 PM
greg added a subscriber: greg.Nov 20 2017, 5:45 AM
Qgil updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 20 2017, 9:06 AM
yuvipanda removed a subscriber: yuvipanda.Nov 28 2017, 1:54 AM
Qgil added a subtask: T124691: Configure Single Sign On at discourse.wmflabs.org.Dec 27 2017, 1:39 PM
Qgil added a subtask: T181377: Set up test instances for popular Q&A software.Jan 2 2018, 4:47 PM
Qgil changed the status of subtask T184461: Migration of discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org from wmflabs to production from Open to Stalled.Jan 8 2018, 5:28 PM
revi added a subscriber: revi.Jan 8 2018, 6:03 PM
Qgil closed subtask T180854: Create discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org (pilot instance) as Resolved.Jan 9 2018, 9:55 AM
Tgr added a project: Discourse.Jan 10 2018, 5:42 AM
Tgr added a comment.Jan 10 2018, 6:04 AM
In T180854#3882018, @Qgil wrote:

If replying via email is a wanted feature, then it should be discussed in a separate task blocking T180853: Bring a discourse instance for technical questions to production . I will close this task here as soon as the pilot is announced.

I don't think it should be a blocker. OTOH it was already done once (T125099) so how hard could it be?

TheDJ added a subscriber: TheDJ.Jan 10 2018, 8:56 AM
Qgil added a comment.Jan 10 2018, 9:52 AM

@Tgr indeed: T184592: Setup reply via email in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org

Aklapper mentioned this in T184588: Advertise Wikimedia Developer Support to new developers.Jan 10 2018, 10:53 AM
He7d3r added a subscriber: He7d3r.Jan 15 2018, 7:07 PM
Qgil mentioned this in T184461: Migration of discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org from wmflabs to production.Jan 16 2018, 3:46 PM
greg removed a subscriber: greg.Jan 16 2018, 7:03 PM
Framawiki updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 16 2018, 7:34 PM
Qgil closed subtask T184986: Enable GitHub login in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org as Resolved.Jan 17 2018, 9:11 AM
Tgr added a comment.Feb 4 2018, 6:56 AM

Probably should get Bitergia integration by the time of production deployment.

Tgr added a comment.Feb 4 2018, 9:32 AM

Will need monitoring as well. There is an official Prometheus exporter which looks like it'd do the trick.

Aklapper added a comment.Feb 5 2018, 1:20 PM
In T180853#3944015, @Tgr wrote:

Probably should get Bitergia integration by the time of production deployment.

Created T186513

Aklapper added a subtask: T186513: Enable Discourse backend in wikimedia.biterg.io once a Wikimedia Discourse instance gets into production.Feb 5 2018, 1:20 PM
Qgil updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 11 2018, 9:15 AM
Tgr added a project: Epic.May 4 2018, 2:14 PM
Tgr moved this task from Backlog to Needed for production on the Discourse board.
Tgr closed subtask T184987: Enable Wikimedia Phabricator login in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org as Resolved.May 24 2018, 11:38 AM
Qgil mentioned this in T155678: Provide an easy to use support system for contributors to ask technical questions .Aug 27 2018, 8:34 PM
Aklapper added a comment.Oct 16 2018, 8:07 PM

Is the current instance on wmflabs.org puppetized?
If so, where to see the related puppet files?

Qgil added a comment.Oct 18 2018, 2:44 PM

No puppetized at all. It has been installed and it is being maintained manually, following Discourse's own ways to install and update.

Aklapper added a subtask: T207400: Puppetize Discourse.Oct 18 2018, 5:27 PM
Aklapper changed the status of subtask T186513: Enable Discourse backend in wikimedia.biterg.io once a Wikimedia Discourse instance gets into production from Open to Stalled.
Aklapper added a comment.Oct 18 2018, 5:30 PM

Thanks! Subtask created.

Qgil mentioned this in T181377: Set up test instances for popular Q&A software.Dec 27 2018, 3:44 PM
Qgil mentioned this in T212653: Promote "Wikimedia Developer Support" in the current channels where developer support is provided.Dec 27 2018, 3:55 PM
Qgil mentioned this in T212654: Consider deprecating Project:Support_desk in favor of Wikimedia Developer Support.Dec 27 2018, 4:08 PM
Qgil added a comment.Dec 27 2018, 4:36 PM

Plan agreed with Operations

As an update, Mark Bergsma confirmed to me that their team have committed to bringing Discourse to production and have started to discuss assignments etc. @bd808 knows and now he is the main point of contact because Developer-Advocacy is the team who is responsible for this service.

Tgr closed subtask T181377: Set up test instances for popular Q&A software as Declined.Dec 27 2018, 9:44 PM
Qgil closed subtask T184592: Setup reply via email in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org as Resolved.Dec 27 2018, 10:06 PM
• MZMcBride added a subscriber: • MZMcBride.Dec 28 2018, 2:53 AM
Peachey88 added a subscriber: Peachey88.Dec 28 2018, 8:19 AM
bd808 renamed this task from Bring discourse.mediawiki.org to production to Bring a discourse instance for technical questions to production .Jan 2 2019, 9:43 PM
bd808 updated the task description. (Show Details)
bd808 updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 2 2019, 10:29 PM
• Phabricator_maintenance moved this task from Backlog to Acknowledged on the SRE board.Jan 26 2019, 9:36 PM
herron added a subscriber: herron.Mar 20 2019, 4:24 PM
Aklapper added a comment.Mar 27 2019, 4:08 PM

For the records, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/TEC1:_Reliability,_Performance,_and_Maintenance/Goals#Q4_Goals lists "Investigate and plan deployment of Discourse in Production".

elappen-WMF added a subscriber: elappen-WMF.Apr 8 2019, 4:00 PM
Qgil closed subtask T124691: Configure Single Sign On at discourse.wmflabs.org as Declined.Jul 5 2019, 10:33 AM
elappen-WMF closed subtask T184373: Discourse-MediaWiki instance needs Terms of Use as Resolved.Jul 17 2019, 10:39 PM
srishakatux moved this task from To triage to Team radar on the Developer-Advocacy board.Aug 22 2019, 8:13 AM
Tgr mentioned this in T124690: Successful pilot of Discourse on https://discourse.wmflabs.org/ as an alternative to wikimedia-l mailinglist.Jan 3 2020, 7:32 AM
Aklapper mentioned this in T247010: Clarify future of discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org: Make the website read-only.Mar 11 2020, 11:40 AM
Aklapper closed subtask T186513: Enable Discourse backend in wikimedia.biterg.io once a Wikimedia Discourse instance gets into production as Declined.Sep 8 2020, 1:16 PM
Aklapper closed subtask T184461: Migration of discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org from wmflabs to production as Declined.Sep 8 2020, 1:28 PM
Aklapper closed this task as Declined.Sep 8 2020, 1:32 PM

Declining for the time being, as there are no active Discourse instances in Wikimedia currently (discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org and Space have been made read-only). See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093642.html and T247010 for more information.

Aklapper closed subtask T207400: Puppetize Discourse as Declined.Sep 8 2020, 1:32 PM
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