A couple of issues have been affecting
phabricator.wikimedia.org since last
week and are only partially mitigated. I'd like to provide a brief summary
of the current status for those who haven't been following along closely:
1. There were several incidents of vandalism by apparently manual or
semi-automated means. In response, phabricator admins took steps to limit
further damage. The most visible consequence of this is that we have
temporarily enabled manual approval of new accounts. This means that all
newly-created accounts must be approved by an admin before they can use
phabricator. We will approve any and all accounts which appear to be
legitimate users but there might be some delay as we have a limited amount
of time to devote to reviewing new accounts.
2. The recent gerrit upgrade had unexpected consequences for Phabricator's
git repository mirroring functionality. Because gerrit was migrated to
"notedb," a lot of new meta-data was exposed via git references.
Phabricator was unable to mirror the new metadata without hitting some
timeouts and as a result, many git repositories were failing to import into
Phabricator. This has been mostly resolved now, however, there may still be
some repositories which are failing to update. Please report any issues
that you encounter on the associated task:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196855
Mukunda Modell
Wikimedia Release Engineering