My apologies if this ticket comes as a surprise to you. In order to ensure WMCS can provide a stable, secure and supported platform, it’s important we migrate away from GridEngine. I want to assure you that while it is WMCS’s intention to shutdown GridEngine as outlined in the blog post https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/, a shutdown date for GridEngine has not yet been set. The goal of the migration is to migrate as many tools as possible onto kubernetes and ensure as smooth a transition as possible for everyone. Once the majority of tools have migrated, discussion on a shutdown date is more appropriate. See T314664: [infra] Decommission the Grid Engine infrastructure.

As noted in https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/16/toolforge-gridengine-debian-10-buster-migration/ some use cases are already supported by kubernetes and should be migrated. If your tool can migrate, please do plan a migration. Reach out if you need help or find you are blocked by missing features. Most of all, WMCS is here to support you.

However, it’s possible your tool needs a mixed runtime environment or some other features that aren't yet present in https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/18/toolforge-jobs-framework/. We’d love to hear of this or any other blocking issues so we can work with you once a migration path is ready. Thanks for your hard work as volunteers and help in this migration!

@dr0ptp4kt Would you like for this tool to be shut down or have a volunteer migrate it?
I am okay with someone migrating it.

Thanks!

@tanny411 let me get back to you on that. My intuition is that it's okay to shut it down, unless there's a volunteer readily available for migration (which would be better, but is less likely).

This was really awesome work, and for anyone who stops by this task later, I encourage them to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M31scvrfGdE to see it!

Sounds good to me.

Yup, confirming on behalf of the team that this is fine to shut down.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2024-02-14T18:40:58Z] <taavi> mark as disabled per T319479