[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Grid Engine Shutdown Timeline

2023-12-06 Thread Magnus Manske via Cloud
Hi all, I do appreciate the efforts to keep toolforge running, and that sometimes massive changes are necessary to do this, which has implications for tool maintainers. I also understand that there have to be deadlines at some point, otherwise things will never get finished. But as I have said on

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Grid Engine Shutdown Timeline

2023-12-06 Thread Amory
Is there also the chance that those numbers are an undercount? I've got a bunch of simple cron tasks but they're using jlocal, not jsub, and I don't appear to have been contacted. The documentation vaguely alludes to this, but I wonder if there are a number of other tools/maintainers who have als

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Grid Engine Shutdown Timeline

2023-12-06 Thread Platonides
On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 at 19:13, wrote: > * When "grid infrastructure is deleted" on March 14, will there be backups > of the tools for people who want to migrate them in the future? > The "grid infrastructure" is different than the "tools". I expect the tools would still be there, they would just n

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Grid Engine Shutdown Timeline

2023-12-06 Thread Seyram Komla Sapaty
Hello Amory, We reached out directly on several occasions to maintainers via email, phabricator and announcements were made on the mailing list. What's the username you use and is this the same email address you use? Let me crosscheck this again. On jlocal, you can schedule a cron job with Jobs F

[Cloud] Re: [Cloud-announce] [IMPORTANT] Grid Engine Shutdown Timeline

2023-12-06 Thread Kunal Mehta
Hi, On 12/6/23 03:59, Magnus Manske via Cloud wrote: Hi all, I do appreciate the efforts to keep toolforge running, and that sometimes massive changes are necessary to do this, which has implications for tool maintainers. +1, I am not sure people fully appreciate how massive of a change thi