Reason
The MachineVision extensions was leading to more bad than good edits. See T339902: [XL] Evaluate 'depicts' annotations added via CAT
To-do list
- This task
- Add maintainers of that extensionas subscribers to this task (if they have no apparent Phabricator account, notify them on-wiki or via email if possible and note it here).
- Add Phabricator project MachineVision as a tag for this task, and remove MediaWiki-extensions-Other.
- Undeploy
- Remove from config so that it no longer gets intialized in production (patch)
- Remove any scheduled jobs (patch)
- Once these are done and the patches deployed then drop from releng/release (patch)
- On-wiki documentation
- Archive documentation on mediawiki.org (provide URL): replace page contents with {{Archived extension|last revision id before archiving|task=T352884}}
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If documentation page was translatable, remove <translate>, visit Special:PageTranslation, and click "remove from translation" (if you don't have the translation administrator right, ask a user who does). - Update Wikidata item (provide URL) associated with documentation page
- add statement Abandonware (Q281039) to instance of (P31) together with qualifier start time (P580) = the YYYY-MM-DD date that you decided to archive extension(generally per edit history)
- add qualifier end time (P582) = the YYYY-MM-DD (same date as above) to instance of (P31) = MediaWiki extension (Q6805426)
- Phabricator
- Mark all Phabricator tasks for the extensioneither Declined or Invalid. Add a comment pointing to this task when doing so for reference.
- Archive Phabricator project MachineVision for the extension.
- Edit Phabricator project MachineVision description for the extensionwith a link to this ticket.
- Translatewiki.net/translations
- Remove from translatewiki.net (groups/MediaWiki/mediawiki-extensions.txt / and also here).
- Configuration/tests/integrations/etc. (patch)
- Remove tests in integration/config (patch)
- Remove manifest/other references from mediawiki/vagrant if they exist. (patch)
- Remove from https://doc.wikimedia.org/cover-extensions/ if present (requires Continuous-Integration-Infrastructure shell user to delete directly from the server).
- Repositories
- Empty repository, leaving only the README indicating the repo is archived, and referring to this task by URL. (patch)
- Remove from mediawiki/extensions (along with in .gitmodules).
- Mark the repository read-only in Gerrit (also edit description to prepend "[ARCHIVED]" and a reference to this task): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/repos/mediawiki/extensions/MachineVision,general
- Deactivate the Diffusion repository for the extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EMVI/
- Delete the GitHub mirror: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MachineVision
- Events
- Remove all events and event schemas T347970
- Data
- Archive db tables ... the latest db dumps will be kept, which is adequate
- sqoop data from production db into hdfs
- done, available in hdfs at /wmf/data/archive/backup/machine-vision-backup/
- stop doing dumps (patch 1 needs to be merged first, then a hour-ish later patch 2)
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drop db tables on production (and beta)covered by T362229: Drop MachineVision tables from beta and production