Ping @Volker_E, @JGirault, @Capt_Swing, @Prtksxna

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@bd808 That's on me now and I'm in contact with @Andrew. @Capt_Swing and @Prtksxna already gave feedback to Andrew where possible and said, their instances are removable. @JGirault is not part of the Foundation any more (for +2y).

@Volker_E Any estimate on when you or others will be able to address this task?

In T236526#5713477, @Volker_E wrote:

@Capt_Swing and @Prtksxna already gave feedback to Andrew where possible and said, their instances are removable.

Which instances are those? The discussion is not present on this task or on the 2019 project purge page (where this project was never claimed by anyone). I would be happy to delete any unwanted instances for y'all, but you can also do this through https://horizon.wikimedia.org/

@JGirault is not part of the Foundation any more (for +2y).

They are still present as an admin in the OpenStack configuration for this project. Offboarding from Cloud VPS projects is generally left to the project maintainers as some former staff remain active in a volunteer status after separation from the Foundation or other affiliate entities. You can use https://horizon.wikimedia.org/ to remove them as desired. User management is in the "Identity" section of that tool.

Note that this project is slated for deletion. I failed to notify the admins (or shutdown VMs) in a timely fashion so the deletion is scheduled for 2020-02-15. It's quite likely that this problem will go away then.