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Dec 2 2021, 3:50 PM (228 w, 5 d)
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Recent Activity

Feb 10 2026

KOfori updated subscribers of T397618: Fix thumbor discovery records and make swift use them.

@MatthewVernon can you take a look at this when you get a chance?

Feb 10 2026, 8:24 PM · Sustainability (Incident Followup), Thumbor, SRE-swift-storage, Data-Persistence, ServiceOps-Upgrades-Hardware, ServiceOps new, Patch-For-Review, Kubernetes, Prod-Kubernetes

Jan 16 2026

KOfori added a comment to T412875: Requesting access to cassandra-staging-devs for dr0ptp4kt.

Approved.

Jan 16 2026, 2:30 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Dec 15 2025

KOfori renamed T411835: Investigate unusual dbs in x1 from Investigate unusal dbs in x1 to Investigate unusual dbs in x1.
Dec 15 2025, 2:14 PM · DBA

Dec 10 2025

KOfori added a comment to T412192: Requesting access to analytics-privatedata-users for Jcrespo.

This is approved.

Dec 10 2025, 12:49 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Nov 26 2025

KOfori added a comment to T410972: Requesting access to cassandra-staging-devs group for amastilovic.

Hi @RLazarus, this is approved.

Nov 26 2025, 5:20 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Nov 24 2025

KOfori added a comment to T410612: Requesting access to ops for blake.

Hi, approving this on behalf of @Kappakayala as her delegate while OOO.

Nov 24 2025, 10:44 AM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Oct 30 2025

KOfori added a comment to T408793: Grant Access to analytics-privatedata-users for mvernon.

This has my approval. Matthew requires this as part of his hypothesis ownership of FY 25/26 WE 5.4.7.

Oct 30 2025, 4:26 PM · SRE-Access-Requests, Data-Engineering, SRE

Jul 22 2025

KOfori closed T391411: SDS 2.4.4 Edge Uniques Production Cookie Deployment, a subtask of T392313: [Epic] SDS 2.4.11 Run a Synthetic A/A Experiment, as Resolved.
Jul 22 2025, 9:59 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.3; 2025-05-27), Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 7), Epic
KOfori closed T391411: SDS 2.4.4 Edge Uniques Production Cookie Deployment as Resolved.

Thanks, everyone!

Jul 22 2025, 9:59 PM · Patch-For-Review, Test Kitchen, Traffic
KOfori closed T391411: SDS 2.4.4 Edge Uniques Production Cookie Deployment, a subtask of T392314: [Epic] SDS 2.4.9 Synthetic Beacon Endpoints, as Resolved.
Jul 22 2025, 9:59 PM · Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 7), Epic
KOfori closed T391411: SDS 2.4.4 Edge Uniques Production Cookie Deployment, a subtask of T392316: [Epic] SDS 2.4.10 Experiment Manager API, as Resolved.
Jul 22 2025, 9:59 PM · Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 6), Epic

Jul 15 2025

KOfori added a comment to T399560: Requesting access to analytics_privatedata_users for vgutierrez.

Approved.

Jul 15 2025, 1:07 PM · Patch-For-Review, SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Jun 20 2025

KOfori added a comment to T397453: es2045 hard crash.

Hi @FCeratto-WMF, what's the update on this host?

Jun 20 2025, 10:36 AM · DBA

Oct 29 2024

KOfori added a comment to T378517: Requesting access to the analytics cluster for CDobbins.

This is approved.

Oct 29 2024, 5:30 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Sep 20 2024

KOfori moved T373993: CPU temperature issues in cp hosts from Backlog to Radar/Not for Service on the Traffic board.
Sep 20 2024, 12:09 PM · ops-esams, ops-magru, DC-Ops, Traffic
KOfori moved T374696: Enable prometheus metrics scraping for haproxykafka from Backlog to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Sep 20 2024, 12:05 PM · Patch-For-Review, Traffic
KOfori moved T374986: cp307[12] thermal issues from Backlog to Radar/Not for Service on the Traffic board.
Sep 20 2024, 12:05 PM · SRE, ops-esams, DC-Ops, Traffic
KOfori moved T374891: Write a cookbook that performs a rolling restart of the pdns-recursor service on the DNS hosts from Backlog to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Sep 20 2024, 12:05 PM · Traffic
KOfori moved T375200: Support RFC 8914 [Extended DNS Errors] in Wikimedia DNS from Backlog to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Sep 20 2024, 12:05 PM · Traffic
KOfori moved T375232: Write a cookbook that performs a rolling restart of HAProxy from Backlog to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Sep 20 2024, 12:04 PM · Traffic

Jun 14 2024

KOfori placed T365074: Requesting access to cassandra-staging-devs for milimetric up for grabs.

Approved.

Jun 14 2024, 2:42 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Jun 10 2024

KOfori reassigned T365074: Requesting access to cassandra-staging-devs for milimetric from KOfori to WDoranWMF.

@WDoranWMF please check this out and let me know if this has your approval before I approve.

Jun 10 2024, 3:04 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

May 21 2024

KOfori added a comment to T365118: Requesting access to cassandra-staging-devs for sg912.

Approved.

May 21 2024, 7:37 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

May 14 2024

KOfori reassigned T364588: Requesting access to cassandra-staging-devs for xcollazo from KOfori to Eevans.

Approved.

May 14 2024, 11:32 AM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

May 12 2024

KOfori renamed T364691: Elevated 503 backend fetch failed reported by users from Elavated 503 backend fetch failed reported by users to Elevated 503 backend fetch failed reported by users.
May 12 2024, 6:34 PM · Traffic

May 9 2024

KOfori added a comment to T364126: Disable Chrome Private Prefetch Proxy.

Hi @OSefu-WMF, @ssingh has completed the change. Will leave this task for you to verify and close as you see fit.

May 9 2024, 5:32 PM · Movement-Insights, Traffic
KOfori reassigned T364126: Disable Chrome Private Prefetch Proxy from KOfori to OSefu-WMF.
May 9 2024, 5:31 PM · Movement-Insights, Traffic

May 6 2024

KOfori changed the status of T364126: Disable Chrome Private Prefetch Proxy from Open to Stalled.

We're going to put this on hold for now.

May 6 2024, 2:53 PM · Movement-Insights, Traffic
KOfori changed the status of T364126: Disable Chrome Private Prefetch Proxy, a subtask of T346463: Identify and label prefetch proxy data in our traffic, from Open to Stalled.
May 6 2024, 2:52 PM · Data-Engineering-Radar, Traffic, Movement-Insights, Data-Engineering
KOfori changed the status of T364126: Disable Chrome Private Prefetch Proxy, a subtask of T336715: Investigate relation of Prefetch feature to increase in automated traffic and impact on unique devices, from Open to Stalled.
May 6 2024, 2:52 PM · Movement-Insights, Research-Freezer, Data-Engineering

May 3 2024

KOfori triaged T364126: Disable Chrome Private Prefetch Proxy as Medium priority.

Thanks, @OSefu-WMF. Received. We would usually not enable anything impactful going into a weekend. This will be prioritized early next week.

May 3 2024, 2:47 PM · Movement-Insights, Traffic

Mar 26 2024

KOfori added a comment to T361046: Requesting access to analytics-privatedata-users for bblack.

Approved.

Mar 26 2024, 7:37 PM · Patch-For-Review, SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Mar 21 2024

KOfori moved T360149: Create a database for Striker test instance from Triage to Blocked external/Not db team on the DBA board.
Mar 21 2024, 1:20 PM · Data-Persistence-Backup, DBA, cloud-services-team, Striker

Feb 29 2024

KOfori added a project to T358793: Decommission AQS 1.0: Cassandra.
Feb 29 2024, 5:51 PM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.03.25 - 2024.04.14), Patch-For-Review, Data-Persistence, Cassandra, Test Kitchen
KOfori removed a project from T358793: Decommission AQS 1.0: Data-Persistence.
Feb 29 2024, 5:51 PM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.03.25 - 2024.04.14), Patch-For-Review, Data-Persistence, Cassandra, Test Kitchen

Feb 28 2024

KOfori added a comment to T358133: Security Issue Access Request for cdobbins.

Hi @mmartorana, this is approved.

Feb 28 2024, 6:08 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Security

Dec 14 2023

KOfori added a watcher for Cassandra: KOfori.
Dec 14 2023, 3:39 PM

Dec 8 2023

KOfori updated the task description for T342154: Upgrade Traffic hosts to bookworm.
Dec 8 2023, 4:29 PM · Patch-For-Review, Traffic

Dec 4 2023

KOfori moved T350463: Provide an etcd schema to store real servers information from Backlog to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Dec 4 2023, 1:58 PM · Traffic
KOfori moved T351117: Move analytics log from Varnish to HAProxy from Backlog to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Dec 4 2023, 1:57 PM · Data-Engineering-Radar, Patch-For-Review, Data-Engineering, Observability-Logging, Traffic
KOfori moved T350846: Migrate mobileapps to k8s from Backlog to Radar/Not for Service on the Traffic board.
Dec 4 2023, 1:55 PM · Patch-For-Review, Release-Engineering-Team (Seen), SRE, Traffic, serviceops-deprecated, MW-on-K8s
KOfori moved T352579: Update DNS records for 1Password from Backlog to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Dec 4 2023, 1:53 PM · Traffic, DNS
KOfori moved T352253: Decommission task for old cp hosts (cp1075-1090) from Backlog to Radar/Not for Service on the Traffic board.
Dec 4 2023, 1:52 PM · SRE, ops-eqiad, DC-Ops, Traffic
KOfori moved T352291: Provide better error pages for HAProxy from Backlog to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Dec 4 2023, 1:52 PM · Traffic
KOfori moved T352242: Provide second acmechief server configured for Puppet 7 in eqiad from Backlog to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Dec 4 2023, 1:51 PM · Acme-chief, Traffic
KOfori assigned T352242: Provide second acmechief server configured for Puppet 7 in eqiad to BCornwall.

Hi @BCornwall, can you take care of this?

Dec 4 2023, 1:50 PM · Acme-chief, Traffic

Nov 28 2023

KOfori moved T347054: Simplify maintenance of DNS/NTP hosts to reduce toil around reboots, reimages, and other work from Backlog to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Nov 28 2023, 8:51 PM · Traffic

Nov 7 2023

KOfori moved T350565: Switch conftool to use the version 3 etcd datastore from Backlog to Radar/Not for Service on the Traffic board.
Nov 7 2023, 8:37 PM · ServiceOps-SharedInfra, ServiceOps new, Patch-For-Review, conftool, Data-Persistence, Traffic

Oct 27 2023

KOfori moved T348851: Add custom HAProxy backend only for healthchecks from Scheduled incidental work to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Oct 27 2023, 7:07 PM · Traffic

Oct 23 2023

KOfori added a watcher for SRE-swift-storage: KOfori.
Oct 23 2023, 9:11 PM

Oct 12 2023

KOfori updated the task description for T342154: Upgrade Traffic hosts to bookworm.
Oct 12 2023, 10:46 AM · Patch-For-Review, Traffic

Aug 31 2023

KOfori added a comment to T345343: Requesting access to ops group for abran.

This is approved. Thanks.

Aug 31 2023, 12:42 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Aug 30 2023

KOfori moved T345058: Cassandra instance with corrupted commit log after powercycle of restbase1027 from Backlog to Complete on the Cassandra board.
Aug 30 2023, 10:45 AM · Cassandra, serviceops-deprecated

Aug 29 2023

KOfori added a watcher for DBA: KOfori.
Aug 29 2023, 2:27 PM

Aug 25 2023

KOfori added a comment to T344968: Test depool of drmrs.

@Joe certainly not now with all the trouble but at some point when things have stabilized, we should do it.

Aug 25 2023, 8:57 AM · SRE, Infrastructure-Foundations, netops, Traffic

Aug 22 2023

KOfori renamed T344210: restbase1030: Cassandra crashing (signal 11) from Urgent: restbase1030: Cassandra crashing (signal 11) to restbase1030: Cassandra crashing (signal 11).
Aug 22 2023, 5:46 PM · Cassandra
KOfori renamed T344210: restbase1030: Cassandra crashing (signal 11) from restbase1030: Cassandra crashing (signal 11) to Urgent: restbase1030: Cassandra crashing (signal 11).
Aug 22 2023, 5:41 PM · Cassandra

Jul 30 2023

KOfori created T343098: [epic] Data Persistence Hypothesis WE 3.2.1.
Jul 30 2023, 5:29 PM · Data-Persistence

Jul 21 2023

KOfori moved T341992: Relocate lvs1013-lvs1016 to rows E & F from Radar/Not for Service to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Jul 21 2023, 9:22 PM · ops-eqiad, Traffic

Jun 14 2023

KOfori moved T339134: Package and deploy ATS 9.2.5 from Backlog to Actively Servicing on the Traffic board.
Jun 14 2023, 7:34 PM · Traffic

Jun 1 2023

KOfori added a comment to T337911: Requesting access to ops group for fabfur.

Approved.

Jun 1 2023, 10:46 AM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

May 9 2023

KOfori updated subscribers of T319365: PCS caching and pregeneration when restbase is decommissioned.

@Kappakayala indeed. Had a quick chat earlier with @FJoseph-WMF and briefly with the team. We'll set something up to discuss further.

May 9 2023, 6:02 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog, Data-Persistence, Patch-For-Review, Epic, User-jijiki, RESTBase Sunsetting, Content-Transform-Team-WIP, Traffic, Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, iOS-app-feature-Performance, RESTBase, serviceops-deprecated

Apr 3 2023

KOfori updated the task description for T321309: Upgrade Traffic hosts to bullseye.
Apr 3 2023, 9:59 PM · Patch-For-Review, Traffic, SRE

Mar 21 2023

KOfori added a comment to T310009: Make it easier to create a new requestctl object.

That will be Traffic.

Mar 21 2023, 12:32 PM · Traffic, SRE-Sprint-Week-Sustainability-March2023, Sustainability (Incident Followup), conftool

Mar 13 2023

KOfori renamed T331860: Urgent: Two failed disks in ms-be2040 from Two failed disks in ms-be2040 to Urgent: Two failed disks in ms-be2040.
Mar 13 2023, 2:26 PM · ops-codfw, SRE-swift-storage, SRE, DC-Ops

Feb 21 2023

KOfori moved T329849: haproxy is able to load the same GeoIP & IP-to-ASN data as Varnish does from Backlog to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Feb 21 2023, 3:51 PM · SRE, Traffic
KOfori moved T327991: codfw row B switches upgrade from Upcoming to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Feb 21 2023, 3:39 PM · Discovery-Search (Current work), SRE, Platform Engineering, collaboration-services, Infrastructure-Foundations, SRE Observability, Traffic, Machine-Learning-Team, cloud-services-team, Data-Persistence, DBA, serviceops-deprecated, netops
KOfori moved T329073: eqiad row A switches upgrade from Upcoming to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Feb 21 2023, 3:39 PM · Patch-For-Review, Discovery-Search (Current work), Shared-Data-Infrastructure, Data-Engineering-Planning, DBA, SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure-Foundations, Traffic, serviceops-deprecated, Machine-Learning-Team, cloud-services-team, Data-Persistence, SRE Observability, collaboration-services
KOfori moved T274431: Wikidough: Support EDNS(0) Padding: RFC 7830 and RFC 8467 from Upcoming to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Feb 21 2023, 3:39 PM · SRE, Traffic
KOfori moved T275409: Create and document Wikidough's privacy policy from Upcoming to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Feb 21 2023, 3:39 PM · Privacy Engineering, SRE, Traffic
KOfori moved T283614: RIPE Atlas monitoring of reachability & latency towards anycasted Wikidough IP from Upcoming to Scheduled incidental work on the Traffic board.
Feb 21 2023, 3:39 PM · Traffic

Feb 8 2023

KOfori added a comment to T328787: Request for SSH Access for kofori.

Hi @Dzahn, that's correct. Global root access on all machines. Sorry for the late response. Missed the notification.

Feb 8 2023, 2:09 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests
KOfori moved T327991: codfw row B switches upgrade from Backlog to Upcoming on the Traffic board.
Feb 8 2023, 11:29 AM · Discovery-Search (Current work), SRE, Platform Engineering, collaboration-services, Infrastructure-Foundations, SRE Observability, Traffic, Machine-Learning-Team, cloud-services-team, Data-Persistence, DBA, serviceops-deprecated, netops
KOfori moved T329073: eqiad row A switches upgrade from Backlog to Upcoming on the Traffic board.
Feb 8 2023, 11:29 AM · Patch-For-Review, Discovery-Search (Current work), Shared-Data-Infrastructure, Data-Engineering-Planning, DBA, SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure-Foundations, Traffic, serviceops-deprecated, Machine-Learning-Team, cloud-services-team, Data-Persistence, SRE Observability, collaboration-services

Feb 3 2023

KOfori created T328787: Request for SSH Access for kofori.
Feb 3 2023, 4:19 PM · SRE, SRE-Access-Requests

Jan 12 2023

KOfori updated KOfori.
Jan 12 2023, 12:16 AM
KOfori added a watcher for Traffic: KOfori.
Jan 12 2023, 12:15 AM

Jan 11 2023

KOfori added a watcher for Data-Persistence: KOfori.
Jan 11 2023, 12:51 PM
KOfori added a member for Data-Persistence: KOfori.
Jan 11 2023, 12:51 PM
KOfori added a member for Traffic-Icebox: KOfori.
Jan 11 2023, 12:26 PM
KOfori removed a member for Traffic: MMandere.
Jan 11 2023, 12:24 PM

Nov 9 2022

KOfori added a watcher for Data-Persistence-Backup: KOfori.
Nov 9 2022, 10:17 AM

Sep 29 2022

KOfori added a comment to T318065: IABot is encountering 429 on Wikimedia Production.

Thanks for speaking to me, Mark. We can confirm the bit about the IP being added to the allow list next week but I believe the best way forward is for us to work together to improve how the IABot interacts with our system without overwhelming resources. Thanks!

Sep 29 2022, 6:46 PM · Traffic, InternetArchiveBot, SRE
KOfori added a comment to T318065: IABot is encountering 429 on Wikimedia Production.

Hello Mark,

Sep 29 2022, 5:42 PM · Traffic, InternetArchiveBot, SRE

Apr 4 2022

KOfori created T305364: Security Issue Access Request for KOfori.
Apr 4 2022, 12:17 PM · SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Security

Mar 15 2022

KOfori updated subscribers of T297187: Upgrade pybal-test200[23] from Stretch to Buster.
Mar 15 2022, 3:12 PM · Traffic
KOfori assigned T297187: Upgrade pybal-test200[23] from Stretch to Buster to Marc.
Mar 15 2022, 3:08 PM · Traffic