[CHANGE REQUEST] smolt retirement

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:30:03 -0800
Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> We've been talking about retiring smolt and replacing it with a
> sinkhole that accepts data (so older installs don't cause long
> timeouts when attempting to send a smolt profile) for a while now.
> puiterwijk wrote the files that we'd need to implement this a few
> weeks ago. I've now got those changes we'll need into a patch against
> our puppet repo.
> 
> The changes touch the smolt server (value01) which is not covered by
> this freeze and also the proxies which are. 

Well, value03/04 in production... 

>  In addition, I've got a
> second patch that updates nagios to no longer check smolt.  The
> changes to main smolt are applied in stg and seem to work well.
> (Have tried smoltSendProfile against the stg server and the links you
> are given for public profiles)
> 
> Can I get a +1 to apply these changes?

+1 here. 

Do we also want to link to the smolt retirement wiki page?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Smolt_retirement
(which has some additional info that might head off complaints)

> Note after freeze we can also:
> 
> * Turn off the smolt wiki -- the changes on the proxy should mean it
> doesn't see any more traffic but we should be able to stop it from
> running as well.
> * Turn off backups of the smolt db
> * Look into making the last smolt db dump available for people who are
>   interested in the data.
> * Remove the smolt db (and the smolt mediawiki db) from our mysql
> server.

All sounds good. 

kevin


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