All users at fab.wmflabs.org have received this announcement. Forwarding it here just in case.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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