Portal:Toolforge/Ongoing Efforts/Toolforge Workgroup/Reports
Toolforge Workgroup
Reports
Reports include both decision records and progress reports on the implementation of Toolforge and related projects. These reports are intended to keep team members and interested community members updated on progress of the project.
Decision records
Ongoing
- Decision request - Update python team best practices
- Decision request - What to use for toolforge components api task execution
Decided
- Decision request – Toolforge CLI consolidation - Decided on 2024-01-30
- Decision request – Toolforge (re)architecture - Decided on 2023-10-11
- Decision request - How to allow installing system libraries on buildpack-based images - Decided on 2023-06-08
- Decision request - Find a standard place for all the toolforge-related config files - Decided on 2023-05-26
- Decision request - Toolforge envvars/secrets service - Decided on 2023-05-26
- Decision request - What buildpacks to allow and include for toolforge build service beta - Decided on 2023-03-10
- Decision request - Choose a lang for the toolforge build service API - Decided on 2023-02-23
- Decision request - Toolforge build service to move to an API design - Decided on 2023-02-06
- Pre-create harbor namespaces - Decided on 2022-12-15
- How to manage quotas in Toolforge Build Service - Decided on 2022-05-04
Progress reports
Read the latest sync meeting notes.
Previous years meeting notes (read-only).
2024
- 2024-04-16: Focus on enabling users to use the API, and start working on the first
components-api
tasks. - 2024-04-03: Keep focusing on the grid-migration issues (few left), and enabling users to use the APIs (api consolidation), upgrades to k8s went well, keep working on
jobs-api
refactor to add webservice and unblock the consolidated API, and refinement forcomponents
api. Keep an eye on what prod does to move from PSPs so we can reuse (task T279110). - 2024-03-19: The grid has been turned off (yay!), focus on cleanup + user requests, all the phab subprojects have been merged, focus on
jobs-api
refactor to add webservice, and refinement forcomponents
api. Start thinking on a session for the upcoming hackathon. - 2024-02-20: Merge all the phabricator subprojects into the general toolforge for ease of management/visibility, keep focusing on helping/unblocking users moving out of the grid, start refining user stories for orchestration API and unified API, migration to bullseye+containerd almost done, starting to plan upgrade to k8s v1.24 (should be simple).
- 2024-02-06: Decided to start defining the details for the 2024 user stories, and continue focusing on supporting people migrating from the grid.
- 2024-01-23: Continue focus on grid migration, last review of the 2024 toolforge user stories and high view (working doc), investigate how to expose a unified OpenAPI definition (task T354745), and start working on the details for the next quarter tasks (working doc).
- 2024-01-09: Focusing on support for tools migrating off-grid, starting to define the next steps for toolforge with a focus on push to deploy (see this).
2023
- 2023-10-10: Beta is almost there, keep on working on stats and operationalization, and start thinking on the action plan for the toolforge (re)architecture decision request.
- 2023-09-26: Focus on getting statistics from the APIs, and fixing the local development environment
- 2023-09-13: Focus on the beta rollout, improve user experience and add metrics to the services
- 2023-08-29: Focus on the second beta rollout, database credentials on envvars and harbor stability
- 2023-08-08: Focus on getting the database credentials on the envvars service to do the second beta rollout
2022
- 2022-09-27: We started working on the Toolforge Build Service [beta] project!
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