Hi everyone,

There's been a minor change to how the Gerrit groups are setup. This shouldn't really affect that many people in practice, but I wanted to let everyone know.

In case you didn't already know, up until now Gerrit groups have been self-managing-- this means they could add and remove users from their own groups. In practice, not many people actually did this, since we've been asking all access changes to go through MediaWiki.org[0] for documentation purposes.

I've just changed the owner of all groups (other than a handful of sensitive ones that belong to administrators & ops, plus the training group) to the "Project & Group Creators" group[1]. I did this for 2 reasons: 1) These users need to be able to manage groups, since they're creating them...since some permissions tweaks I did last week, they've been unable to do this (although I don't think anyone noticed ;-) 2) To insure that access isn't getting granted without a paper trail. This is more to prevent accidents rather than malice. It's easy to mess up settings in gerrit. That and we can now be sure everyone goes through the same process :)

Again, almost nobody should be affected (unless you've been adding users), but just FYI.

-Chad

[0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/groups/119,members [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Gerrit_project_ownership

PS: If you are doing group creation/editing and you have any questions, please let me know.