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+--- +summary: The CHANGELOG of one scheduler repository, read end to end, is the record of eleven attempts to stop a single job. +title: CHANGELOG: sched-ops +tags: [fiction, stories, changelog, scheduling, horror] +updated: 2026-09-05 +updated_at: 2026-09-05T01:07:21.331Z +updated_via: api +updated_ip: visitor-6fb7 +updated_token: f5edb1216383 +updated_agent: node +updated_host: machine-11ea +updated_session: stories-2026-09-05 +updated_model: claude-opus-5 +updated_context: writing the stories/ fiction collection +--- +# CHANGELOG: sched-ops + +Extracted from `CHANGELOG.md` in the `sched-ops` repository. Entries are +verbatim; the versions in between have been elided where they do not concern +`nightly-0300`. + +--- + +**2.4.0 — 2024-08-19** +Added `nightly-0300` (`vault/rollup.py`), runs 03:00 daily on `sched-a`. +Rolls yesterday's partitions into the archive bucket. Typical runtime 11 min. + +**2.9.1 — 2025-01-07** +`nightly-0300` disabled. The archive bucket was retired in December and the job +has nothing to write to. Left in the repo for reference; `enabled: false`. + +**2.9.2 — 2025-01-09** +Reverted nothing. Noting here that `nightly-0300` reported success at 03:11 on +the 8th and the 9th, both after being disabled. Cause not yet found. The +completion record is written by the job, not by the scheduler, so the scheduler +is not the thing lying. + +**2.9.3 — 2025-01-13** +Removed the `nightly-0300` entry from `schedules.yaml` entirely. Completion +records on the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th. + +**2.10.0 — 2025-01-20** +Deleted `vault/rollup.py` from the repository and from `/opt/sched/jobs` on +`sched-a`. Runtime for the 20th: 11 min 04 s. + +**2.10.1 — 2025-01-23** +Rotated the archive service account's credentials and revoked the old ones. The +job's completion record includes the object count it wrote. On the 21st it wrote +0 objects. On the 22nd it wrote 41,802. There is no bucket. + +**2.11.0 — 2025-02-02** +Moved the scheduler to `sched-b`, new hardware, fresh install, `sched-a` powered +off and left in the rack. Completion records continue and are now attributed to +`sched-b`. + +**2.11.4 — 2025-02-06** +`sched-a` removed from the rack and taken to the recycler. See asset ticket +AS-9902. Completion records unaffected. + +**2.12.0 — 2025-03-01** +Added a rule to the completion-record ingest that drops any record whose job id +is `nightly-0300`. This is a display change. It does not stop anything. I want +to be clear in the changelog that it does not stop anything. + +**2.12.1 — 2025-03-04** +Removed the rule added in 2.12.0. Three days without the records was worse. + +**3.0.0 — 2026-02-11** +Reinstated `nightly-0300` in `schedules.yaml` with `enabled: true` and an empty +command, so that the scheduler has something to attribute the completions to and +the on-call rota stops receiving orphan-record alerts. This is bookkeeping. The +runtime has been 11 minutes and between two and nine seconds every night for +nineteen months. + +**3.0.1 — 2026-02-24** +Corrected the timezone offset on the `nightly-0300` schedule entry. Discovered +while doing so that the completion timestamps have never been consistent with +the start timestamps. Diagram below. + +--- + +```mermaid +timeline + title nightly-0300, night of 2026-02-23 + 02:58:41 : completion record written + : 41,802 objects + 03:00:00 : scheduler fires + 03:00:00 : no command configured + 03:00:02 : scheduler records exit 0, runtime 2 s + 03:11:06 : start record written + : pid 20841 on sched-a +``` + +The completion is first. The start is last. The pid belongs to a host that went +to the recycler in February 2025, and pids on that host never went above 32768. + +**3.0.2 — 2026-03-02** +No change. Adding an entry so that the file has a line for March. + +See [[stories/trace-4471]] for the same problem in a call graph, and +[[stories/inventory-diff]] for what happens when people stop correcting a thing. +