If your tool does not read user information from Wiki Replicas, feel
free to ignore this email.
Temporary accounts [0] are starting to be rolled out, and since
yesterday they are enabled on a few smaller wikis: Czech Wikiversity,
Igbo Wikipedia, Italian Wikiquote, Swahili Wikipedia, and
Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. [1]
Temporary Accounts modify the ways MediaWiki stores anonymous users in
database tables. If you manage a tool that reads user information for
anonymous users, you should check the page "How should I update my
code?" [2] to find out if you need to make changes to your tool. You
can use the wikis listed above to test that your tool is working
correctly.
If you have questions or if you want to report an issue, you can file
a Phabricator task as a subtask of [3].
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/…
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/…
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378516
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Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi!
We will be upgrading toolforge build service tomorrow October 8th at 12:00 UTC.
There's no downtime expected, but the process this time is a bit flaky, and if
something goes wrong, it might make any new builds to fail, or prevent you from
accessing the logs of old ones until manually fixed.
I'll notify replying to this email and on irc before and after the upgrade.
Thanks!
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SRE - Cloud Services
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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