Raise timeout value for IRC Bots
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	RhinosF1
	Apr 21 2020, 8:51 PM

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The sopel timeout is currently 120s.

This is probably too low and causing a hightened rate of false timeout detections and inceased risk of crash during a network wobble.

I plan to raise the timeout value on both tools in a rolling fashion over the next few weeks to avoid impact.

		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		RhinosF1	T248960 Sopel is not recording last event correctly causing server timeout
		Declined		None	T250861 Raise timeout value for IRC Bots

RhinosF1 triaged this task as High priority.

RhinosF1 moved this task from Radar to Deployment on the User-RhinosF1 board.

RhinosF1 set Due Date to Apr 29 2020, 10:59 PM.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2020-04-22T10:51:14Z] <RhinosF1> Test Bot to 210s timeout refs T250861 - rolling timeout to 300s

RhinosF1 set the point value for this task to 3.Apr 22 2020, 11:54 AM

RhinosF1 set Final Story Points to 3.

RhinosF1 changed Due Date from Apr 29 2020, 10:59 PM to May 5 2020, 10:59 PM.

RhinosF1 changed Due Date from May 5 2020, 10:59 PM to May 7 2020, 10:59 PM.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2020-04-29T09:22:04Z] <RhinosF1> Prod Bot to 210s timeout refs T250861 - rolling timeout to 300s

RhinosF1 changed Due Date from May 7 2020, 10:59 PM to May 12 2020, 10:59 PM.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2020-05-05T09:22:21Z] <RhinosF1> Test Bot to 240s timeout refs T250861 - rolling timeout to 300s

Based on the hanging it just did, I’m not sure increasing the timeout is too good of an idea as it means it randomly hangs.

It did recover without disconnecting but it would have probably been clearer if the timeout wasn’t preventing a reboot.

If they are no objections, I suggest we roll back the timeout change and as it merely hides the issue.

As it seems the timeout value isn't the root cause of the bot's issues, I have no objection.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2020-05-12T08:58:00Z] <wm-bot> <rhinosf1> rolling back T250861

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2020-05-12T09:00:22Z] <wm-bot> <rhinosf1> rolling back T250861

RhinosF1 closed this task as Declined.May 12 2020, 9:01 AM

RhinosF1 removed RhinosF1 as the assignee of this task.