Today (Monday June 5th, 2023) at 15:00 UTC (8am US/Pacific) we ran the account import operation that was announced a few days ago. The operation completed successfully.

You may have received an email from GitLab telling you that SSH keys were added to your account. These are SSH keys that are associated with your Wikitech account that have been copied into GitLab.

There have been reports of users having difficulty setting up two factor authentication (2FA) on their accounts. The problem and workaround is described in an existing GitLab issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/344527.

-- Release Engineering

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 3:22 PM Ahmon Dancy <adancy@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hey all,

On Monday June 5th, 2023 at 15:00 UTC (8am US/Pacific) we (the Release Engineering Team) will run scripts[0] to add a bunch of users to the /repos/mediawiki group[1] on GitLab. You may see mail from GitLab as a result.

We're adding accounts from the wmf and ops LDAP groups, to be synchronized regularly. We'll also be doing a one-time import of the mediawiki group defined in Gerrit. Users will initially be added with a GitLab role of "Developer". If a user has not yet logged into GitLab with their developer account, this process will first create a GitLab account for them.

While there's a lot to be done yet, this is one step in migrating MediaWiki development to GitLab. You can track our progress on this at T335921[2], and review a draft of the proposed namespace layout and permissions policy on mw.org[3].

Thanks!

-- Release Engineering

[0]. https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-settings/-/tree/main/group-management
[1]. https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/mediawiki/
[2]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335921
[3]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Policy#MediaWiki_namespace