These Stretch instances were shutdown on 2022-07-20 as this project had not asked for an extension of the deadline. Today (2022-07-22) I was pinged on IRC because a user noticed that the XMLRCS feed was not functioning and I had fixed it at least once before (T295487). I made the executive decision to bring the xmlrcs.huggle.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud back online and perform the manual startup steps for the service.

@komla can we add Huggle to the list of projects needing more time please?

For context @komla, Huggle seems to be abandoned but is also pretty important for antivandalism work on the Wikis. It's worth doing what we can to locate replacement admins if we can -- I had hoped that shutting things down would serve to get some attention from the current admins but that seems not to have worked.

The specific instance I turned back on powers https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/XmlRcs.

I looked around the xmlrcs instance, it seems rather straightforward, there's a es2r.py script which reads from eventstreams and pushes into redis, and then a xmlrcsd that listens to redis and what Huggle/wm-bot clients listen to. The source code is at https://github.com/huggle/XMLRCS/. I imagine it would be a few days work to move it over to a new instance, you probably need to know a bit of bash/Linux admin stuff like setting up systemd services.

I've poked Petrb off-wiki, but my impression is that he is not interested or doesn't have time to maintain this anymore (c.f. https://github.com/huggle/huggle3-qt-lx/pull/351#issuecomment-1013865580). If people want Huggle to stay alive, I think getting it off of xmlrcs is the best way forward. In theory reverting https://github.com/huggle/huggle3-qt-lx/commit/f318a351ce18553e823cd2949f6f4ba5c30c7692 and switching back to the IRC feed wouldn't be the worst thing in the world... (I will admit, I thought most people had already moved to the in-browser anti-vandalism apps like SWViewer and RedWarn, etc.)

For wm-bot, I think we can let the recentchanges integration die and just reactivate one of the many snitch clones out there (I think "hat_collector" is the popular one right now)

hello, xmlrcs was migrated to xmlrcs2 instance, I kept the old one just in case I forgot anything, but most likely it can be wiped out

Thank you @Petrb!