Talk:News/Toolforge Stretch deprecation

When is this going to happen for Toolforge?

Hi, when is this planned deprecation going to happen? Is there any indicative schedule at least (like Q4 2021)? --Dvorapa (talk) 16:16, 3 May 2021 (UTC) @Arturo Borrero Gonzalez: --Dvorapa (talk) 18:38, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi there! we don't have a timeline yet, but soon! We will announce the timeline basically as soon as we have time to plan it. Thanks for your interest :-) --Arturo Borrero Gonzalez (talk) 16:10, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your answer, hopefully it will be soon, 2021 is almost over :D Dvorapa (talk) 22:08, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

@Arturo Borrero Gonzalez (forgot to mention you, sorry) Dvorapa (talk) 22:08, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

What about perl?

I want to transfer my tool "osm4wiki" to Kubernetes. The instructions tell me:

1. <type> is one of: php7.2, php5.6, python, python2, nodejs, golang, jdk8, ruby2, tcl

I wrote my tool in perl. What shall I do? --Plenz (talk) 12:10, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

@Plenz, stick with grid engine, but migrate to the Buster grid. Your feedback on T214343: Create a Perl Docker image for use on the Toolforge Kubernetes cluster would be appreciated as well. -- BryanDavis (talk) 21:58, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much, so I will try to migrate to Buster grid. That's all I can do. Actually, I only know Linux and Perl. I have no idea, what is a grid, a docker, a cluster etc.

<type> is one of: lighttpd, uwsgi-python, tomcat, generic, lighttpd-plain, nodejs, uwsgi-plain

How can I see under which option my program is running now? --Plenz (talk) 06:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

webservice status is probably the easiest way to find out which backend and type a running webservice is using. For the osm4wiki tool this outputs "Your webservice of type lighttpd is running on backend gridengine".

You might be interested in creating a webservice template file in $HOME/service.template so that you can skip adding the --backend=gridengine and --release=buster flags to all of your webservice start commands in the future. -- BryanDavis (talk) 20:53, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your hints. I found a service.template created on 02. April which contains gridengine, lighttpd, and buster.

So I simply stopped my webservice and started it again, and I hope I will not receive any more reminders about Stretch. --Plenz (talk) 10:05, 12 April 2022 (UTC)