Shutting down some community infrastructure

[Philipp Kewisch]

Thanks Max,

this is good news, thank you. In that case let's proceed with the planet 
migration when the time comes, and I'll work with the community to find 
a replacement until 2026.

Philipp

On 10/4/22 2:17 AM, Max Horlanchuk wrote:
> Hi Philipp,
>
> We are still looking into details on how this can be done but we are
> not going to upgrade in place. planet.u.c will be migrated to more up
> to date platform. We don't expect any significant downtime (if any).
> I'll let you know closer to the date when we are ready to run this
> migration.
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 1:11 AM Philipp Kewisch
> <philipp.kewisch at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Hi Erich,
>>
>> thanks for responding. I'm glad you agree on shutting down pad and
>> screencasts. Regarding planet, I'm also reluctant to make any changes
>> there and would like to keep it running. I'm adding in the news team as
>> well so they are aware. If we stay with the option of doing an in-place
>> upgrade, it might be down for a bit while the team figures out why it is
>> no longer working. I suspect the issues might be around dependency problems.
>>
>> We might be able to define a period of time that we find acceptable for
>> the service to be temporarily down? Kristofer/Max, if the in-place
>> upgrade fails, is there a time you could commit to for getting the
>> service back up and running? Is there any way the community could help
>> testing prior to the upgrade to make sure that it still works as
>> expected? Could you share which software is running planet for Ubuntu?
>>
>> I know Mozilla still runs a planet instance
>> (https://github.com/mozilla-it/planet.mozilla.org) as well, so it should
>> not be impossible to do, it just might not be as straightforward to get
>> a replacement running. Best case the upgrade works without hickups and
>> we are safe.
>>
>> Philipp
>>
>> Am 30.09.22 um 16:44 schrieb Erich Eickmeyer:
>>> Hi Philipp,
>>>
>>> Seeing as how you never actually got a response to these points, I figured I'd
>>> share the thoughts I'd been having.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:55:40 PM PDT Philipp Kewisch wrote:
>>>> Hello Community Council,
>>>>
>>>> in an effort to reduce attack surface we'd like to shut down some
>>>> services that are running on old infrastructure or are not well patched:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Separately, another service where action is required is
>>>> planet.ubuntu.com. The software used to aggregate the information is
>>>> running on outdated infrastucture. We will need to update, replace or
>>>> decommission the service before November 1st. The update would be in
>>>> place, so "fingers crossed it will still work after upgrading to a newer
>>>> Ubuntu". A replacement won't be possible with our resources in this
>>>> short timeframe. I would hate to decommission it, since I am interested
>>>> in providing more information about the community, not less. In short, I
>>>> don't have a great answer for planet, so I'd love to hear from folks if
>>>> you have ideas.
>>> Shutting down Planet would be very bad for the community. I think the UWN
>>> folks would definitely have trouble with this one mostly as this is where they
>>> gather a ton of their news. I definitely object to decommissioning it and think
>>> we or others need to come up with a replacement if the update breaks it. I
>>> know other communities, such as Fedora and KDE, have a similar "Planet", which
>>> might even be running on the same software. So, I'm sure we're not alone and
>>> that we can come up with a solution, but I feel like there's less of a chance
>>> things will break due to an update on this one.
>>>
>>> Those are my thoughts.
>
>