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From: <PhabAnnounce@phabricator.wikimedia.org>
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2014
Subject: fab.wmflabs.org to go offline this Monday 18:00UTC
To: qgil@wikimedia.org

Summary: fab.wmflabs.org will be taken down this Monday 18:00UTC. Locally save tasks or workboards that you might rely on for the week. Verify your email address in fab.wmflabs.org if it's not already. The intention is for the Phabricator production instance to be available by Sept 12th.

The Phabricator instance on fab.wmflabs.org has been used over the last few months for both real and test data. On Mon, Sept 8th 2014 18:00UTC this instance will be made unavailable to migrate content to the upcoming production instance on phabricator.wikimedia.org. The Labs instance will not come back online in the same form, if at all.

We take the Labs instance down because we cannot make the Labs instance read-only while dumping its data. Neither can we easily display a banner on all pages warning you to not make any changes which would get lost anyway.

Tickets from the following projects are marked for migration:

Analytics-EEVS
Architecture
bugzilla-migration
Chemical_Markup_for_Wikimedia_Commons
Code_review_in_Phabricator
Community-Engagement
dev.wikimedia.org
googlelogin
Growth
Human_Resources
Language_Engineering
logstash
phabricator
phabricator-request-project
Release_Engineering
rt-migration
Triagers
Trusted_User_Tool
UI_Standardization
UploadWizard_Refactoring
Upstreaming_to_Phabricator.org
Wiki-Release-Team
Wikimedia_Phabricator_Day_1
wikimedia_phabricator_maintenance
wikimedia_phabricator_rfc

Some metadata[1] for tasks associated with the above should be populated in the new production system -- if the account used in fab.wmflabs.org has a verified email that is also verified in the production instance. If you are using an email
but have not verified it to the Labs instance you can go here: http://fab.wmflabs.org/settings/panel/email/ and choose "verify". An email will be sent with a link.

If you do not have a verified email address yet, or for some reason cannot verify an email
with the Labs instance the relevant content (tickets, comments) will still be
migrated. However, it will not be associated automatically with any new account in
the production instance.

For questions catch us (chasemp and andre__) on Freenode IRC or drop into the #wikimedia-devtools channel.

Thanks,

Phabricator Team

[1] metadata to be migrated: ticket: author, cc, assigned, blocking/blocked