@CBogen: Any idea? If not, any idea who to escalate to? Thanks! :)

In T290711#7343897, @Aklapper wrote:

@CBogen: Any idea? If not, any idea who to escalate to? Thanks! :)

I don't know anything about this, unfortunately. Maybe the Partnerships folks?

In T290711#7344652, @CBogen wrote:

In T290711#7343897, @Aklapper wrote:

Any idea? If not, any idea who to escalate to? Thanks! :)

I don't know anything about this, unfortunately. Maybe the Partnerships folks?

Thanks! Pinging @Yael-weissburg: Any idea?

According to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Console_access this is handled by SRE.

@RobH Is this you?

In T290711#7391904, @Yael-weissburg wrote:

According to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Console_access this is handled by SRE.

@RobH Is this you?

So this is my understanding of this, which could easily be incorrect. ;D

I did something in google search console as part of SRE clinic duty to add another employee and some other contractor to some groups in 2018. I documented what I knew to that page, because back then it was just as unclear as it still is today ;) When I did it back then, it was more 'I can access this so I'll help out' rather than a direct clinic duty job. I have no idea who handles these requests at this time, or if it is an SRE issue or a different department. Back then it often routed over to somone in SRE, as the primary login to the search console used the postmaster/noc/root email address and any root members of SRE receive those emails.

I do recall adding users to it back then was incredibly manual, painful, and had to be done per sub-domain (which means per lang/project). I suspect that it was that way is why no one really wants to claim it.

It may require that a team manager or departmental director has to provide feedback on which team or process this should route to or follow.

If it were to become a generic 'SRE duty' then I suspect it would fall to clinic duty. The issue becomes there was never really a good policy for adding users, or the scope allowed, due to the above pain-point considerations. Making it an SRE duty would need getting either Mark or Faidon to approve, unless you can get a SRE sub-team manager to volunteer their team rather than an SRE clinic duty item.

Hope that gives some background, even if its not something that gives you an actionable today.