[00:47:33] <bd808>	 Krinkle: my understanding is that that script is special weirdness for long running jobs (only video transcodes for now) where we want to try really hard not to kill in process jobs when a new MediaWiki container is deployed, but also want to switch to the new container as soon as possible.
[00:47:36] <bd808>	 See also: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/sre/mercurius#mercurius