Project Name: matrix
Wikitech Usernames of requestors: @CCicalese_WMF, @Chicocvenancio, @MarkAHershberger, @Tgr
Purpose: Testing a Matrix.org homeserver for the Wikimedia movement
Brief description: See T193961: Set up Matrix.org homeserver on the Wikimedia Cloud VPS.
How soon you are hoping this can be fulfilled: this month
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | CCicalese_WMF | T184606 Evaluate and set up a test instance of FOSS persistent chat software as a companion to Q&A system for communication with third-party developers | |||
| Open | None | T186061 Evaluate Matrix / Element as the recommended chat system for Wikimedia | |||
| Open | None | T314271 Integrate Matrix chat with Wikipedia | |||
| Open | None | T193961 Set up Matrix.org homeserver on the Wikimedia Cloud VPS | |||
| Resolved | Andrew | T193964 Request creation of matrix VPS project |
Apparently the matrix project exists already (I probably should have checked that before proposing). It's owned by @yuvipanda, so maybe he is OK with us taking it over?
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2018-06-01T23:02:35Z] <bd808> Usurped empty project for T193964. Added Chico Venancio, Cicalese, Gergő Tisza, and MarkAHershberger as admins
I usurped the project from Yuvi and gave it to y'all.
The cloud-services-team and I want to be on record here that this project is for testing matrix, and should not be used to create a general purpose production instance. It would be nice to see documented acceptance criteria for your trial somewhere so that it will be easier to decide when things have advanced to a point where discussions with the SRE team about production hosting options are warranted.
Hello @Tgr. Discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255046#6212144 implies that this project is defunct; is that right? If so, I will close the project and reclaim resources.
The project is not defunct. It's inactive at the moment, and was never really meant to create an actual discussion infrastructure for Wikimedia projects (sadly the terms of use of Wikimedia Cloud force us to create any such infrastructure on third-party hosting), but as a testbed / staging area for such infrastructure. Specifically, it will be useful for developing a Wikimedia login plugin for Synapse.
The existing instances are not used and could be deleted, although I don't know if there's anything on them that @Chicocvenancio would want to back up or document first.
I think my work there can be safely deleted as it is obsolete by new developments in synapse and mediawiki (with ouath2).
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2021-01-13T15:04:25Z] <andrewbogott> deleting matrix-synapse-01.matrix.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud after discussion on T193964