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!

Jumping in to say that I want the tool to stay up past the 14th of December.

For the record, I do not appreciate the way this has been communicated, I have no problem with the need to shutdown GridEngine or migrating my tools but:

1. Automatically assigning me to issues is not okay.
2. Spamming me with automated messages is not okay.
3. Describing me as unreachable because I do not reply to automated messages on Phabricator is not okay
4. Not addressing or acknowledging the above when it's brought up isn't very nice.

I have responded on the Abbe98tools ticket T319469

@Abbe98 Hi! Thanks to your code being online, I was able to send a PR (https://github.com/Abbe98/map-search/pull/4) to do some minimal changes needed to be able to run the tool under the build service, I have not tested everything, but it seems to be working ok. Feel free to use it or create your own version of it, and let us know if you are finding any issues/bugs or similar.

Thank you @dcaro, I will however migrate this tool off Toolforge and just put up a static "this tool has moved page" to catch people accessing the old urls.

This tool has been disabled from running on the Grid.

If you are the maintainer and you want this re-enabled so that you can work on migrating it off the grid, please reach out to the cloud admins on the mailing list(cloud-admin@lists.wikimedia.org)

However, please note that according to the timeline shared, on the 14th of March 2024, the grid infrastructure will be shut down.