Thank you, Bryan! > asking for the now unused qrank Cloud VPS project to be deleted
Oh, there's no need anymore for a dummy Cloud VPS project when a Toolforge project (such as qrank) uses object storage? The Wikitech user guide <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Object_storage_user_guide#Toolforge> still says so. — Sascha Am Mi., 19. März 2025 um 23:20 Uhr schrieb Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org >: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM Sascha Brawer via Cloud > <cloud@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > I moved it to Toolforge, a more modern (Kubernetes-based) > infrastructure, to reduce manual maintenance. https://qrank.toolforge.org/ > > I'm really happy to hear that you found Toolforge to be a good fit for > your project and not an I/O challenge as you once feared. > > > What would have been a good way to reach out to you and other users? > > As Daniel Zahn mentioned in his reply, a redirect from the old url to > the new one is a good way to handle this. I run the redirects Cloud > VPS project [0][1] as a convenience for doing this sort of thing for > various projects that started in a Cloud VPS project that have now > moved to Toolforge or WMF production. > > I peeked into your Cloud VPS project and found that all of the > instances have been deleted, so I decided to proactively setup a > redirect for you. https://qrank.wmcloud.org/ will now redirect folks > to your active service at https://qrank.toolforge.org/. > > When you are thinking about it, you could file a task on the Cloud VPS > project-requests workboard linked to your original project creation > request [3] asking for the now unused qrank Cloud VPS project to be > deleted. No big deal if you don't, but it will save you from nag > emails in the future asking you if you are still using the project. :) > > [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Redirects > [1]: https://openstack-browser.toolforge.org/project/redirects > [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2875/ > [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298228 > > Bryan > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation > Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 >
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