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Warn Etherpad users of upcoming purge
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Add a banner message indicating that the current etherpad instance is scheduled to be purged in the next two months, in two places:

Per discussion in T415237

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Change #1256544 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[operations/puppet@production] Add warning of impending Etherpad deletion

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1256544

Pppery subscribed.

Above patch does the second bullet point. Not sure if the first one is technically feasible - we concluded in T371591 that it wasn't but maybe the practicalities are different for a temporary state.

(I'm asking collaboration-services to review that patch, as a bare minimum)

Change #1256544 merged by Dzahn:

[operations/puppet@production] Add warning of impending Etherpad deletion

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1256544

Deployed the patch and ran puppet. The default pad now has the new warning language.

Change #1273889 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; author: Dzahn):

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: update warning message about truncation to end of May

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1273889

Change #1273889 merged by Dzahn:

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: update warning message about truncation to end of May

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1273889

updated the warning message on new etherpads to "end of May" to reflect the comment at T415237#11833351

Change #1273902 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; author: Dzahn):

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: insert a warning message into the index HTML

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1273902

Change #1273902 merged by Dzahn:

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: insert a warning message into the index HTML

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1273902

There is now also a warning message injected directly in https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/

Dzahn claimed this task.

Puppet code needs a fix because currently it adds the message another time on every run :p

Change #1274005 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; author: Dzahn):

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: stop puppet from adding the same file_line multiple times

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1274005

Change #1274005 merged by Dzahn:

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: stop puppet from adding the same file_line multiple times

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1274005

Change #1274138 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; author: Dzahn):

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: avoid adding warning message multiple times

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1274138

Change #1274138 merged by Dzahn:

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: avoid adding warning message multiple times

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1274138

Change #1274151 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn; author: Dzahn):

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: remove code to insert warning message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1274151

Change #1274151 merged by Dzahn:

[operations/puppet@production] etherpad: remove code to insert warning message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1274151