How would installing the motd plugin in itself magically resolve T190676? I don't get it.

it would provide the info when the user clones so that we doin't have to keep telling the user to run this command.

@Paladox: I hope I misunderstand you and you do not want to spam every single user with info about random potential errors that a user might run into once in a lifetime. Or not.

Change 422179 had a related patch set uploaded (by Chad; owner: Chad):
[operations/software/gerrit@stable-2.14] Adding motd plugin

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/422179

In T190810#4085075, @demon wrote:

I want to install this anyway to communicate downtime to users ahead of time.

That makes sense - using it for announcements and not as a knowledge base of things that might happen or not.

It wasn't meant to be a knowledge base of possibilities. You misunderstand the premise. The relation of T190676 to this was that it's an active issue people are currently having. The idea was to mention it to them on git operations.

But it also has the more generalized use I already covered.

I see. I wasn't aware that several people are currently affected by it.
I am sorry for my wrong understanding here, @Paladox.

Change 422179 merged by Chad:
[operations/software/gerrit@stable-2.14] Adding motd plugin

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/422179

We have never used the motd plugin and I will remove it via T321075