Planet.wikimedia.org

What is planet?

An RSS feed aggregator. See meta:Planet_Wikimedia for details.

en.planet.wikimedia.org and several other languages, *.planet.wikimedia.org.

The current list of languages is:

Make a change in the operations/puppet repo in ./modules/profile/manifests/planet/venus.pp . You'll see the existing examples.

On Phabricator. In product Wikimedia, component Planet

On planetX001 where X={1, 2} varying on the datacenter (eqiad, codfw). Before that it was on zirconium in eqiad. The even older planet was on singer.

In git, in the operations/puppet repo:

Puppet creates systemd timers and services, running as user "planet". sudo systemctl cat planet-update-en

User=planet
Environment="HTTPS_PROXY=http://url-downloader.eqiad.wikimedia.org:8080"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rawdog -d /etc/rawdog/en/ -v -u -w

To seem them all:

 $ sudo systemctl list-units | grep planet

Clone the operations/puppet Git repository: git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/operations/puppet;
go to modules/planet/templates/feeds/ and edit one of the [language]_config.erb files (where [language] matches the code of the language of the new feed);
submit to Gerrit and have somebody review and it.
→ Use "planet-feeds" as the topic (branch) when submitting. Moreover, prepend "planet:" to the commit message, e. g. planet: Add XYZ feed (861452). Currently, in November 2022, user Dzahn is responsible for reviewing and merging respective change sets and may be added as reviewer. See the Git/Reviewers #operations/puppet MediaWiki.org page for reference.