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14 changes: 12 additions & 2 deletions pages/quest_books/f25_watcloud_quests.mdx → ...est_books/archive/f25_watcloud_quests.mdx
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# WATcloud Quest Book - Summer 2025
# WATcloud Quest Book - Fall 2025

## Term Objectives Summary

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| 10/10 | $5k + |
| 5/10 | $3k + |
| 0/10 | No progress. |
| 0/10 | No progress. |

### Scoring Template

| Quest Name | Description | Due Date | Score |
|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|-----------|--------|
| Hardware additions | Add 3 nebula machines and a new wato-drive. | 2025-08-31| 2 |
| Handle outages | Zero-downtime handling for critical services. | 2025-08-31| 3 |
| Login node architecture | Move away from VMs; all resources managed in Slurm. | 2025-08-31| 0 |
| Blog posts | Publish 2 blog posts. | 2025-08-31| 0 |
| Funding | Raise $5k+ in funding. | 2025-08-31| 5 |
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| 10/10 | $5k + |
| 5/10 | $3k + |
| 0/10 | No progress. |
| 0/10 | No progress. |


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# WATcloud Quest Book - Winter 2026

## Term Objectives Summary

These are WATcloud's objectives for the Winter 2026 term.

### Term Objectives and Scoring

1. **Bug Squash**

There are some recurring new bugs / issues which should be dealt with.
- 1.1 CVMFS endpoint disconnection
- 1.2 Slurmdb unreachable
- 1.3 Add limits and quotas to prevent machines from running out of disk space

Completing these should help alleviate "random" CI failures.

| Score | Criteria |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 20/20 | All issues squashed |
| 0/10 | No progress. |

2. **Hardware additions: Create wato-drive3**

| Score | Criteria |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 20/20 | New machine is set up with wato-drive-3 |
| 0/10 | No progress. |

3. **Handle outages, optimizing for zero downtime**

| Score | Criteria |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 20/20 | All outages are handled with zero downtime for critical services |
| 10/20 | All outages are handled with < 12 hours downtime for critical services |
| 5/20 | All outages are announced before hand |


4. **Deploy a new project**

Deploy the following projects: WATcloud CLI, Spellchecker, Power Outage Notification System, Email Verification System.

| Score | Criteria |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 15/15 | All projects deployed. |
| 7/15 | Some projects deployed. |
| 0/10 | No projects. |

5. **Write blog posts!**

| Score | Criteria |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 20/20 | 2 blog posts are written and published |
| 10/20 | 1 blog post is written and published |
| 0/20 | No progress. |

6. **Get more funding!**

| Score | Criteria |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 10/10 | $5k + |
| 5/10 | $3k + |
| 0/10 | No progress. |