Change 664904 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; owner: Dzahn):
[operations/puppet@production] create placeholder role/profile for gitlab VMs

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/664904

Since we heard they started yesterday already, the access process can be sped up by asking the new users to sign up on Wikitech and create user profiles. After that they can sign in on Phabricator using those to see this ticket, create SSH keys and paste them.

Change 664904 merged by Dzahn:
[operations/puppet@production] create placeholder role/profile for gitlab VMs

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/664904

In T274458#6854026, @Dzahn wrote:

Since we heard they started yesterday already, the access process can be sped up by asking the new users to sign up on Wikitech and create user profiles.

For transparency and accountability, I'd like to stress "create user profiles". Thanks in advance!

In T274458#6854026, @Dzahn wrote:

Since we heard they started yesterday already, the access process can be sped up by asking the new users to sign up on Wikitech and create user profiles. After that they can sign in on Phabricator using those to see this ticket, create SSH keys and paste them.

Yep, that's already begun to happen here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274460 -- I asked about the Wikitech profile names.

In T274458#6855479, @Aklapper wrote:

In T274458#6854026, @Dzahn wrote:

Since we heard they started yesterday already, the access process can be sped up by asking the new users to sign up on Wikitech and create user profiles.

For transparency and accountability, I'd like to stress "create user profiles". Thanks in advance!

Are there any guidelines published for contractors anywhere? I asked them to add a blurb to their phab accounts and added {{user info}} on the mw accounts (and will redirect from wikitech accounts).

Thanks, that's great. I'm currently not aware of guidelines but need to re-check.

This task is open and High prio but are there actually blockers for Speed & Function left? The only one I see is a new access request for a 4th contractor that is waiting for them. They seem to be actively working on performance tests in cloud and access to the production machine is available. The other subtasks seem of general gitlab project nature. Is this the right parent task that should stay open?

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2021-03-26T10:01:37Z] <dcaro> Increased quota +1 instance, +4 cores, +8G ram (T274458)