@brennen, @Dzahn for awareness

I'd say we shouldn't spend time manually setting stuff but fix T398460: Phab Scap template vs actual value out of sync for numerous values and make the test instance set / use https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/deployment/-/blob/wmf/stable/scap/templates/phabricator/conf/local/local.json.j2

Currently https://phabricator.wmcloud.org/config/edit/maniphest.custom-field-definitions/ is empty (while it is aware that there's stuff in scap).

To me the problem to fix is "test instance config is different from prod instance" regardless of the specific setting.

This gets back to the old issue of:

"a test instance is supposed to be like production, otherwise it's not good for testing"

vs

"the test instance is where anyone is supposed to easily make changes to be able to test them before they hit production"

and the answer to that is "technically each service needs at least 2 test instances, one "like-prod" and one to stage new things" but on the other hand that creates even more work

In case I've accidentally opened a can of worms with this task (apologies if so!), I'd be fine with adding the field for use in testing it, and then removing it at any time in the future / if someone wants to test without it at any point :)

@A_smart_kitten You can be bold with this one. If you just want to add it, please go ahead! And thank you for using the test instance and reporting these things.

Thanks @Dzahn! I've done that now - for the record, I've left the new value I've changed that config setting to at P78793 (paste limited to acl*releng & acl*sre-team just in case, as I'm not sure whether this config counts as non-public or not).

Feel free to close this task out now if there's nothing left to do here (I would, but I'm not sure if folks want to use this task to track anything else as well; e.g. T398732#10980302) :)

In T398732#10981512, @Dzahn wrote:

And thank you for using the test instance and reporting these things.

No problem - thank you (collab, releng) for maintaining the test instance!

In T398732#10981512, @Dzahn wrote:

You can be bold with this one. If you just want to add it, please go ahead!

+1. Once/if we've sorted out T398460 the field will still be there anyway :D