Toolforge: potential improvements for labs/toollabs.git
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	• aborrero
	Apr 5 2021, 5:20 PM

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The labs/toollabs.git repository contains 1 debian source package that produces 2 binary packages:

jobutils
misctools

Both package contains several small scripts (mostly python) that are fundamental to the current Toolforge, like jsub, take, and friends.

Some random ideas for potential improvements:

translate take source code from C to python, so we can drop the automake build suite in the package, which adds complexity and is harder to maintain than a simple python script
consider relocating the source code for the scripts to operations/puppet.git instead (so, no need for .deb packages anymore)

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Resolved	None	T279308 Toolforge: potential improvements for labs/toollabs.git
Resolved	None	T207968 toolforge: rework toollabs debian package (misctools)
Invalid	None	T91879 Rename 'misctools' toollabs package to something more appropriate
Resolved	dcaro	T398202 Migrate misctools package to GitLab
Duplicate	dcaro	T398419 [misctools-cli] generate arm64 packages for lima-kilo/macos combination

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• aborrero created this task.Apr 5 2021, 5:20 PM

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Anyways, our time may be better spend deprecating the grid :-)

Note that many parts of the "misctools" package don't depend on the grid at all and would likely need to stay beyond its decommissioning.

fnegri edited projects, added cloud-services-team; removed cloud-services-team (Kanban).Jan 18 2023, 6:52 PM

fnegri moved this task from Kanban to Inbox on the cloud-services-team board.

I think that we can split all the tools that will still be useful without the grid (become/etc.) to their own repo/package, and leave all the grid-specific ones behind (jsub and such).

Could probably be shipped with toolforge-cli as generic toolforge-specific tools, and added as subcommands too.

dcaro added a subtask: T207968: toolforge: rework toollabs debian package (misctools).Sep 26 2023, 9:24 AM

dcaro added a subtask: T91879: Rename 'misctools' toollabs package to something more appropriate.

dcaro closed subtask T91879: Rename 'misctools' toollabs package to something more appropriate as Invalid.Feb 21 2024, 12:11 PM

taavi closed subtask T207968: toolforge: rework toollabs debian package (misctools) as Resolved.Jun 30 2025, 1:45 PM

dcaro closed subtask T398202: Migrate misctools package to GitLab as Resolved.Jul 14 2025, 9:34 AM

taavi closed this task as Resolved.Jul 24 2025, 6:06 PM