dancy: the main reason I avoided the command so far is that it logs to SAL which feels overkill for merely following the (imho useful) practice of locking for the 10min around staging and testing a change, to avoid incomplete or untested deploys. I feel that logging them is putting an undue burden on the channel and logs, feels like too big a deal compared to eg locking because of external reasons. The same way that eg a regular deploy also doesn't log a lock during the first 10min of a sync despite presumably having a lock by then

07:07:51 Started sync-apaches
07:08:06 ['/usr/bin/scap', 'pull', '--no-php-restart', '--no-update-l10n', '--exclude-wikiversions.php', 'mw2300.codfw.wmnet', 'mw1420.eqiad.wmnet', 'mw2289.codfw.wmnet', 'mw1486.eqiad.wmnet', 'deploy1002.eqiad.wmnet', 'mw1398.eqiad.wmnet', 'mw2259.codfw.wmnet', 'mw1366.eqiad.wmnet', 'deploy2002.codfw.wmnet', 'mw1404.eqiad.wmnet'] (ran as mwdeploy@deploy1002.eqiad.wmnet) returned [1]: Aborting: Scap is disabled on this host. If you really need to run Scap here, you can override by passing "-Dblock_execution:False" to the call

07:08:29 sync-apaches: 100% (in-flight: 0; ok: 377; fail: 1; left: 0)
07:08:29 Per-host sync duration: average 4.1s, median 3.5s
07:08:29 rsync transfer: average 475,556 bytes/host, total 179,760,423 bytes
07:08:29 1 apaches had sync errors
07:08:29 Finished sync-apaches (duration: 00m 37s)
07:08:29 Started scap-cdb-rebuild
07:08:34 sudo -u mwdeploy -n -- /usr/bin/scap cdb-rebuild (ran as mwdeploy@deploy1002.eqiad.wmnet) returned [1]: Aborting: Scap is disabled on this host. If you really need to run Scap here, you can override by passing "-Dblock_execution:False" to the call

07:08:35 scap-cdb-rebuild: 100% (in-flight: 0; ok: 393; fail: 1; left: 0)
07:08:35 1 hosts had scap-cdb-rebuild errors
07:08:35 Finished scap-cdb-rebuild (duration: 00m 06s)
07:08:35 Started sync_wikiversions
07:08:40 sync_wikiversions: 100% (in-flight: 0; ok: 394; fail: 0; left: 0)
07:08:40 Finished sync_wikiversions (duration: 00m 05s)
07:08:40 Started php-fpm-restarts
07:08:40 Running '/usr/local/sbin/restart-php-fpm-all php7.4-fpm 9223372036854775807' on 325 host(s)
07:11:24 php-fpm-restart: 100% (in-flight: 0; ok: 325; fail: 0; left: 0)
07:11:24 Finished php-fpm-restarts (duration: 02m 43s)
07:11:24 Running /usr/local/bin/mwscript purgeMessageBlobStore.php
07:11:25 Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:904952|Remove akwiki from CX config]] (duration: 07m 22s)
07:11:25 backport failed: <CalledProcessError> Command '['/usr/bin/scap', 'sync-world', '--pause-after-testserver-sync', '--notify-user=kartik', 'Backport for [[gerrit:904952|Remove akwiki from CX config]]']' returned non-zero exit status 1.