OK. Thanks for letting me know that. It looks like I've been declined but at least
I'm getting some idea on how things work around here...
alexander(a)vassilevski.com
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On Friday, 14 December 2018 10:35, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> That is the process for getting shell access on production [e.g. servees directly
running Wikipedia]. Which is rather different (and much harder) than getting access to an
abandoned tool.
>
> --
> brian
>
> On Friday, December 14, 2018, Alexander Vassilevski <alexander(a)vassilevski.com>
wrote:
>> I created a task in phab to be added to NDA ldap, so I can sign the NDA and get
shell access:
>>
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211996
>> One of the subtasks (from
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_NDA#Privileged_LDAP_or_shell_… ) on
this is to get
>>
>> [ ] At least one comment of support from a Wikimedia Foundation employee,
explaining why it is a good idea to accept your request
>> [ ] A comment of approval from one Wikimedia Foundation manager (usually the
manager of an employee supporting you).
>> [ ] (Have someone with access double-check which
mediawiki.org account that the
manager's Phabricator account is linked to, where the SUL account was created, and how
it was created on that wiki.)
>>
>> Can someone do this? If you need to see some qualifications I can try to get some
code of mine to you from some old puppet stuff I've done and I can show you my
github, where you can see some of my code.
>> If I'm making a rookie mistake here and this type of access is not needed,
let me know. I'm also sasheto +i on IRC #wikimedia-tech, so you can message me there
too, I check it from time to time.
>> alexander(a)vassilevski.com
>>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:33, Alex Monk <krenair(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You'll basically need to create a wikitech account (if you don't
already have one) and convince one of the existing project admins (listed at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/project/maps) to add you.
>>> Please use Puppet instead of manually setting up servers by hand.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 20:21, Alexander Vassilevski
<alexander(a)vassilevski.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have some free time this December and I could manually create the new
vm's and replicate the configs/installs by hand on newly created Ubuntu 18 vm's (
after figuring out how the old ones are installed and configured and if given access, of
course .. ).
>>>>
>>>> Keep in mind that I'm new to wikimedia and don't know much about
the infrastructure or procedures, so what do I need to do to be given access and volunteer
to do this?
>>>>
>>>> alexander(a)vassilevski.com
>>>>
>>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>>>> On Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:09, Johan Jönsson
<jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:36 AM Johan Jönsson jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:24 AM Derk-Jan Hartman <
>>>>> >
[[d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com](mailto:d.j.hartman%2Bwmf_ml@gmail.com)](mailto:[d.j.hartman%2Bwmf_ml@gmail.com](mailto:d.j.hartman%252Bwmf_ml@gmail.com))>
wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > > Yeah might be wise to at least reach out to en.wp and
de.wp. Or maybe Tech
>>>>> > > News even ?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > "Hey folks, this might not work in the future" could
be reason enough to
>>>>> > include it in Tech News, yes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Included
inhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/51 which
is
>>>>> going out to the wikis on Monday.
>>>>>
>>>>> //Johan Jönsson
>>>>>
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