My apologies if this ticket comes as a surprise to you. In order to ensure WMCS can provide a stable, secure and supported platform, it’s important we migrate away from GridEngine. I want to assure you that while it is WMCS’s intention to shutdown GridEngine as outlined in the blog post https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/, a shutdown date for GridEngine has not yet been set. The goal of the migration is to migrate as many tools as possible onto kubernetes and ensure as smooth a transition as possible for everyone. Once the majority of tools have migrated, discussion on a shutdown date is more appropriate. See T314664: [infra] Decommission the Grid Engine infrastructure.

As noted in https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/16/toolforge-gridengine-debian-10-buster-migration/ some use cases are already supported by kubernetes and should be migrated. If your tool can migrate, please do plan a migration. Reach out if you need help or find you are blocked by missing features. Most of all, WMCS is here to support you.

However, it’s possible your tool needs a mixed runtime environment or some other features that aren't yet present in https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/18/toolforge-jobs-framework/. We’d love to hear of this or any other blocking issues so we can work with you once a migration path is ready. Thanks for your hard work as volunteers and help in this migration!

Update: I intend to migrate it but it might take some more time. (I was not the original maintainer and still don't know how the code is organized well.)

Hi! I see that most of the tool is migrated, but there's still a stray cron (cron-29, coming from crontab) that needs migrating, no rush, just fyi.

When you are finished, please resolve the task, thanks a lot!

I'm pretty sure the cron task is migrated in the first part of the last 7 days. [1] The remaining number will go away soon, if we just wait more.

I'm still checking if the lighttpd part (that servs the API endpoints) is done. The grid engine version is gone, and the k8s version is at least mostly working. I'll see if there is something I missed (by asking other devs and users) in the functionality of those endpoints.

[1] https://grid-deprecation.toolforge.org/t/commons-android-app