FYI it's also disabled in Phab: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/BarryTheBrowserTestBot/

The user does not seem to be part of https://ldap.toolforge.org/user/barrybrowsertestbot of any sensitive groups. For disabling an account and on checking internally with SRE, there is no formal process currently in place. T335478 a bit about this but until there is, there isn't much to do here.

If you disagree, please let me know but otherwise I will make this as resolved since the account is already disabled in Phabricator.

Anyone in the list of people at https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/a8e90bc9358f3c0d53c567ae3ba62903a1b400f7/modules/idm/templates/idm-django-settings.erb#L388 or https://ldap.toolforge.org/group/bitu-account-managers can do this/

In T388662#10641905, @ssingh wrote:

For disabling an account and on checking internally with SRE, there is no formal process currently in place.

Developer account blocking is functionality in Bitu (T359820: Developer Account Blocking: Migrate the one-stop Developer (un)Blocking from Wikitech to Bitu). This workflow was handled via account blocking on Wikitech until the October 2024 changes to Wikitech that detached it from the Developer account LDAP directory.

As @Pppery points out https://ldap.toolforge.org/group/bitu-account-managers is the list of folks who currently are able to use the blocking/unblocking features in Bitu.

Thank you @bd808 for the details and for the screenshot of the blocking logs!

As part of this task I found out that the logic to ban an account in Gerrit was not migrated from the wikitech-l MediaWiki hook to Bitu. Blocks were ineffective. I went to implement support for blocking users in Gerrit by porting the PHP code to Python. This was done via T390070

Although I have verified the behavior with a test account, I forgot I did all that work for the purpose of properly blocking BarryTheBrowserTestBot which remained active.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-releng) [2025-10-03T06:42:11Z] <hashar> gerrit set-account BarryTheBrowserTestBot --inactive # T388662 T390070

I can confirm the BarryTheBrowserTestBot account is now inactive in Gerrit. From the All-Users.git database:

$ git show
commit 94c67416a2c1adc8bde631e6c9e72701915e424f (HEAD -> users/53/2653, origin/users/53/2653)
Author: [BOT] Gerrit Code Review <gerrit@wikimedia.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 3 06:39:58 2025 +0000

    Deactivate Account via API

diff --git a/account.config b/account.config
index 9f1487eba0..5b93ec3ea2 100644
--- a/account.config
+++ b/account.config
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [account]
        fullName = BarryTheBrowserTestBot
        preferredEmail = jdlrobson+barry@gmail.com
+       active = false

Thank you for the report @Jdlrobson-WMF !