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!

I will probably need past the December 14th initial deadline to migrate this tool since most of the code is pretty legacy.

Hi @Legoktm! How is the migration going? Is there anything blocking you/issue/bug that I can help with?

tools.legobot@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge jobs list
Job name:         Job type:             Status:
----------------  --------------------  --------------------------
afdrelists        schedule: 3 * * * *   Waiting for scheduled time
hbcai             schedule: 23 2 * * *  Waiting for scheduled time
mfd-rs            schedule: 2 * * * *   Waiting for scheduled time
rfc               schedule: 1 * * * *   Waiting for scheduled time
scotus-redirects  schedule: @weekly     Waiting for scheduled time

Waiting for the top of the hour to see how the two PHP jobs (rfc and afdrelists) turn out...the Rust ones should be fine.