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Recent Activity

Today

brennen added a comment to T441345: Edits to articles seem to be causing page images to get dropped.

(Disclaimer: I cannot remember the last time I personally ran a maintenance script in production, but it might well have been before mwscript-k8s.)

Thu, Oct 15, 5:35 PM · PageImages, Content-Platform-Team, Wikimedia-production-error

Yesterday

brennen added projects to T441221: InvalidArgumentException: $contentVersion is required for this format: Parsoid, User-brennen, Content-Platform-Team.
Wed, Oct 14, 6:36 PM · Content-Platform-Team (Work In Progress), Patch-For-Review, User-brennen, Parsoid, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen moved T438220: 1.47.0-wmf.24 deployment blockers from Backlog to Doing/Involved on the User-brennen board.
Wed, Oct 14, 4:28 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Essential-Work, Release, Train Deployments
brennen added a project to T438220: 1.47.0-wmf.24 deployment blockers: User-brennen.
Wed, Oct 14, 4:28 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Essential-Work, Release, Train Deployments
brennen added a comment to T438220: 1.47.0-wmf.24 deployment blockers.

I'll roll forward during the UTC-7 window.

Wed, Oct 14, 4:26 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Essential-Work, Release, Train Deployments

Thu, Oct 8

brennen attached a referenced file: F105720811: Screenshot 2026-10-01 at 12.58.44 PM.png.
Thu, Oct 8, 11:56 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Radar), Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 31), Essential-Work, WikimediaDebug
brennen attached a referenced file: F105720810: Screenshot 2026-10-01 at 12.57.57 PM.png.
Thu, Oct 8, 11:56 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Radar), Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 31), Essential-Work, WikimediaDebug
brennen attached a referenced file: F105720809: Screenshot 2026-10-01 at 12.56.42 PM.png.
Thu, Oct 8, 11:56 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Radar), Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 31), Essential-Work, WikimediaDebug
brennen added a comment to T438283: Update WikimediaDebug to fetch active experiment config and allow selection of experiments and groups.

From Mozilla:

Thu, Oct 8, 11:55 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Radar), Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 31), Essential-Work, WikimediaDebug
brennen moved T438283: Update WikimediaDebug to fetch active experiment config and allow selection of experiments and groups from Backlog to Waiting Response on the User-brennen board.
Thu, Oct 8, 11:53 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Radar), Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 31), Essential-Work, WikimediaDebug
brennen added projects to T438283: Update WikimediaDebug to fetch active experiment config and allow selection of experiments and groups: Release-Engineering-Team (Radar), User-brennen.
Thu, Oct 8, 11:53 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Radar), Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 31), Essential-Work, WikimediaDebug
brennen added a comment to T438283: Update WikimediaDebug to fetch active experiment config and allow selection of experiments and groups.

Submitted v3.4.0 of WikimediaDebug for review for both Firefox and Chrome. Not sure how long that'll take.

Thu, Oct 8, 11:53 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Radar), Test Kitchen (Experiment Platform Sprint 31), Essential-Work, WikimediaDebug
brennen created T440673: WikimediaDebug: Fix outstanding Firefox Developer Hub warning(s).
Thu, Oct 8, 11:52 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, WikimediaDebug

Tue, Oct 6

brennen moved T439902: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transactionFunction: MediaWiki\JobQueue\Jobs\CategoryCountUpdateJob::updateCategoryCountsQuery: UPDATE `category` SET cat_pages = cat_pages from Backlog to Logs/Train on the User-brennen board.
Tue, Oct 6, 10:48 PM · Unowned-production-error, MediaWiki-Engineering, DBA, User-brennen, MediaWiki-Categories, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen moved T440405: Clean up remaining Patch demo legacy wikis, remove config for /wikis from Backlog to Next on the User-brennen board.
Tue, Oct 6, 10:48 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen updated the task description for T440405: Clean up remaining Patch demo legacy wikis, remove config for /wikis.
Tue, Oct 6, 9:45 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen created T440405: Clean up remaining Patch demo legacy wikis, remove config for /wikis.
Tue, Oct 6, 9:44 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen closed T440370: GitLab Private Repository Request for: pcendrer/plantilla-chatbot-patrones as Resolved.

Thanks - it sounds like this fits the rubric. I set the visibility of plantilla-chatbot-patrones to private. Happy hacking!

Tue, Oct 6, 4:59 PM · Essential-Work, User-brennen, Tool-plantilla-chatbot, Release-Engineering-Team, GitLab (Project and group requests)
brennen claimed T440370: GitLab Private Repository Request for: pcendrer/plantilla-chatbot-patrones.

Could you describe the plantilla-chatbot project?

Tue, Oct 6, 4:43 PM · Essential-Work, User-brennen, Tool-plantilla-chatbot, Release-Engineering-Team, GitLab (Project and group requests)
brennen moved T439904: Finding right group for microsite project in GitLab from Backlog to Waiting Response on the User-brennen board.
Tue, Oct 6, 4:14 PM · App Growth (AppG Sprint [FY2627 Sep 30 - Oct 13]), User-brennen, Essential-Work, GitLab (Project and group requests), Release-Engineering-Team
brennen changed the status of T439904: Finding right group for microsite project in GitLab from Open to Stalled.

Pasting in discussion from WMF Slack:

Tue, Oct 6, 4:13 PM · App Growth (AppG Sprint [FY2627 Sep 30 - Oct 13]), User-brennen, Essential-Work, GitLab (Project and group requests), Release-Engineering-Team
brennen added a project to T440340: Deploy Phab/Phorge 2026-10-06: Essential-Work.
Tue, Oct 6, 4:08 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), User-brennen, Collaboration-Services, Phabricator (2026-10-06)
brennen created T440340: Deploy Phab/Phorge 2026-10-06.
Tue, Oct 6, 2:49 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), User-brennen, Collaboration-Services, Phabricator (2026-10-06)

Fri, Oct 2

brennen closed T438218: 1.47.0-wmf.22 deployment blockers as Resolved.

Train seems stable on all wikis, although I'm not thrilled with the current state of logspam and we'll be keeping an eye on T439902 next week.

Fri, Oct 2, 7:42 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Release, Train Deployments
brennen added a comment to T706: Requests for addition to the #acl*Project-Admins group (in comments).

I kindly request that my two WMDE colleagues @SuzanneWood-WMDE and @seanleong-WMDE are added to acl*Project-admins.

Fri, Oct 2, 4:12 PM · Tracking-Neverending, Project-Admins
brennen added a member for acl*Project-Admins: seanleong-WMDE.
Fri, Oct 2, 4:10 PM
brennen added a member for acl*Project-Admins: SuzanneWood-WMDE.
Fri, Oct 2, 4:10 PM

Thu, Oct 1

brennen updated subscribers of T439902: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transactionFunction: MediaWiki\JobQueue\Jobs\CategoryCountUpdateJob::updateCategoryCountsQuery: UPDATE `category` SET cat_pages = cat_pages.

Maybe related to T402873: Create dedicated changeprop-jobqueue rule for CategoryCountUpdateJob - @Scott_French any thoughts?

Thu, Oct 1, 9:22 PM · Unowned-production-error, MediaWiki-Engineering, DBA, User-brennen, MediaWiki-Categories, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen moved T439919: LanguageConverter: PHP Warning: Undefined array key "crh-cyrl" from Backlog to Logs/Train on the User-brennen board.
Thu, Oct 1, 7:25 PM · Content-Platform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid-Read-Views (Language Converter Support), MediaWiki-Language-converter, User-brennen, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen created T439919: LanguageConverter: PHP Warning: Undefined array key "crh-cyrl".
Thu, Oct 1, 7:24 PM · Content-Platform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid-Read-Views (Language Converter Support), MediaWiki-Language-converter, User-brennen, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen added a comment to T439913: WikimediaMaintenance: PHP Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$fr_timestamp.

Thanks!

Thu, Oct 1, 7:17 PM · User-brennen, MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen moved T402563: Wikibase\Repo\Domains\Crud\Infrastructure\DataAccess\Exceptions\EntityUpdateFailed: <Error, collected 1 message(s) on the way, array value set> from Backlog to Logs/Train on the User-brennen board.
Thu, Oct 1, 6:48 PM · User-brennen, Wikibase Reuse Team, Wikidata, MediaWiki-extensions-Wikibase-Repo, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen added a project to T402563: Wikibase\Repo\Domains\Crud\Infrastructure\DataAccess\Exceptions\EntityUpdateFailed: <Error, collected 1 message(s) on the way, array value set>: User-brennen.

Still seen in 1.47.0-wmf.22 (T438218). ~40 in the last 2 weeks.

Thu, Oct 1, 6:48 PM · User-brennen, Wikibase Reuse Team, Wikidata, MediaWiki-extensions-Wikibase-Repo, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen moved T439913: WikimediaMaintenance: PHP Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$fr_timestamp from Backlog to Logs/Train on the User-brennen board.
Thu, Oct 1, 6:24 PM · User-brennen, MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen created T439913: WikimediaMaintenance: PHP Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$fr_timestamp.
Thu, Oct 1, 6:24 PM · User-brennen, MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen moved T436248: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBUnexpectedError: No atomic section is open (got MediaWiki\Extension\CheckUser\SuggestedInvestigations\Services\SuggestedInvestigationsCaseManagerService::createCase) from Backlog to Logs/Train on the User-brennen board.
Thu, Oct 1, 6:18 PM · Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Aster (Oct 12 - Oct 30)), Patch-For-Review, User-brennen, MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.18; 2026-09-01), CheckUser-SuggestedInvestigations, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen added a project to T436248: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBUnexpectedError: No atomic section is open (got MediaWiki\Extension\CheckUser\SuggestedInvestigations\Services\SuggestedInvestigationsCaseManagerService::createCase): User-brennen.

Still seeing this in 1.47.0-wmf.21, 22. 55 in the last 24h.

Thu, Oct 1, 6:18 PM · Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Aster (Oct 12 - Oct 30)), Patch-For-Review, User-brennen, MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.18; 2026-09-01), CheckUser-SuggestedInvestigations, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen lowered the priority of T439902: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transactionFunction: MediaWiki\JobQueue\Jobs\CategoryCountUpdateJob::updateCategoryCountsQuery: UPDATE `category` SET cat_pages = cat_pages from Unbreak Now! to Needs Triage.

I think this feels unlikely to be train-related, so not treating as a blocker.

Thu, Oct 1, 6:12 PM · Unowned-production-error, MediaWiki-Engineering, DBA, User-brennen, MediaWiki-Categories, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen updated subscribers of T439902: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transactionFunction: MediaWiki\JobQueue\Jobs\CategoryCountUpdateJob::updateCategoryCountsQuery: UPDATE `category` SET cat_pages = cat_pages.

No deploys around then, and I haven't yet found anything that changed recently with CategoryCountUpdateJob.php itself. I do see:

Thu, Oct 1, 6:07 PM · Unowned-production-error, MediaWiki-Engineering, DBA, User-brennen, MediaWiki-Categories, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen updated the task description for T439902: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transactionFunction: MediaWiki\JobQueue\Jobs\CategoryCountUpdateJob::updateCategoryCountsQuery: UPDATE `category` SET cat_pages = cat_pages.
Thu, Oct 1, 6:01 PM · Unowned-production-error, MediaWiki-Engineering, DBA, User-brennen, MediaWiki-Categories, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen updated the task description for T439902: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transactionFunction: MediaWiki\JobQueue\Jobs\CategoryCountUpdateJob::updateCategoryCountsQuery: UPDATE `category` SET cat_pages = cat_pages.
Thu, Oct 1, 5:50 PM · Unowned-production-error, MediaWiki-Engineering, DBA, User-brennen, MediaWiki-Categories, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen created T439902: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transactionFunction: MediaWiki\JobQueue\Jobs\CategoryCountUpdateJob::updateCategoryCountsQuery: UPDATE `category` SET cat_pages = cat_pages.
Thu, Oct 1, 5:05 PM · Unowned-production-error, MediaWiki-Engineering, DBA, User-brennen, MediaWiki-Categories, Wikimedia-production-error

Wed, Sep 30

brennen added a comment to T438218: 1.47.0-wmf.22 deployment blockers.

Error on rolling to group0:

Wed, Sep 30, 6:28 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Release, Train Deployments
brennen created T439747: Add RelEng clinic duty to deployment calendar so that jouncebot will yell at us about it and we remember to do it.
Wed, Sep 30, 4:38 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team

Tue, Sep 29

brennen added a comment to T438218: 1.47.0-wmf.22 deployment blockers.

Thanks for the risky patch notice @TheresNoTime. It's rare that we rollback test wikis, but if we need to, we'll revert https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1343957 first (cc @brennen).

Tue, Sep 29, 3:09 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Release, Train Deployments

Mon, Sep 28

brennen closed T439341: Gitlab 2fa reset for bvibber as Resolved.

Verified via backchannel.

Mon, Sep 28, 8:38 PM · Essential-Work, GitLab (Support), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen moved T438218: 1.47.0-wmf.22 deployment blockers from Backlog to Doing/Involved on the User-brennen board.
Mon, Sep 28, 4:28 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Release, Train Deployments
brennen added a project to T438218: 1.47.0-wmf.22 deployment blockers: User-brennen.
Mon, Sep 28, 4:27 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Release, Train Deployments

Tue, Sep 22

brennen added a comment to T438826: Related changes in GitLab are not always shown.

I think the filter added in T395728: 'Related GitLab patches' box includes patches for unrelated tasks (that begin with the current task's ID) is too strict and it ends up dropping legitimate matches like the ones above.

Tue, Sep 22, 7:37 PM · Release-Engineering-Team, Phabricator

Sep 15 2026

brennen added a project to T437930: Deploy Phab/Phorge 2026-09-15: Essential-Work.
Sep 15 2026, 3:48 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), User-brennen, Collaboration-Services, Phabricator (2026-09-15)

Sep 14 2026

brennen created T437930: Deploy Phab/Phorge 2026-09-15.
Sep 14 2026, 5:39 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), User-brennen, Collaboration-Services, Phabricator (2026-09-15)

Sep 10 2026

brennen added a member for Trusted-Contributors: jeena.
Sep 10 2026, 9:04 PM
brennen added a comment to T436512: Requesting GitLab account activation for fengri.

Added your user to Trusted-Contributors based on on-wiki contributions. The GitLab account approval bot should pick it up shortly.

Sep 10 2026, 6:13 PM · GitLab (Account Approval), Release-Engineering-Team
brennen closed T436512: Requesting GitLab account activation for fengri as Resolved.
Sep 10 2026, 6:12 PM · GitLab (Account Approval), Release-Engineering-Team
brennen added a member for Trusted-Contributors: Fengrimur.
Sep 10 2026, 6:11 PM

Aug 25 2026

brennen closed T420302: "wgSFSIPListLocation does not appear to be a valid URL" when trying to create a patchdemo with all extensions as Resolved.
Aug 25 2026, 8:49 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, User-brennen, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen added a comment to T420302: "wgSFSIPListLocation does not appear to be a valid URL" when trying to create a patchdemo with all extensions.

Seems like the above change worked.

Aug 25 2026, 8:46 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, User-brennen, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen moved T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24 from Next to Doing/Involved on the User-brennen board.
Aug 25 2026, 7:38 PM · Essential-Work, dev-images, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen updated the task description for T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24.
Aug 25 2026, 7:37 PM · Essential-Work, dev-images, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen moved T420302: "wgSFSIPListLocation does not appear to be a valid URL" when trying to create a patchdemo with all extensions from Backlog to Waiting Response on the User-brennen board.
Aug 25 2026, 4:26 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, User-brennen, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen added projects to T420302: "wgSFSIPListLocation does not appear to be a valid URL" when trying to create a patchdemo with all extensions: User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team.
Aug 25 2026, 4:26 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, User-brennen, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen merged task T435978: StopForumSpam explodes on missing configuration in Patchdemo into T420302: "wgSFSIPListLocation does not appear to be a valid URL" when trying to create a patchdemo with all extensions.
Aug 25 2026, 4:22 PM · Product Safety and Integrity, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-StopForumSpam, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen merged T435978: StopForumSpam explodes on missing configuration in Patchdemo into T420302: "wgSFSIPListLocation does not appear to be a valid URL" when trying to create a patchdemo with all extensions.
Aug 25 2026, 4:22 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, User-brennen, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen created T435978: StopForumSpam explodes on missing configuration in Patchdemo.
Aug 25 2026, 4:11 PM · Product Safety and Integrity, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-StopForumSpam, Catalyst (PatchDemo)
brennen added a comment to T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24.
== Step 2: publishing ==
Successfully published image docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/dev/catalyst-base:0.0.2-s1
Successfully published image docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/dev/catalyst-code-server:0.0.3-s2
Successfully published image docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/dev/catalyst-mw-chart-base:0.2.0-s2
== Build done! ==
Aug 25 2026, 3:12 PM · Essential-Work, dev-images, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen created T435958: Deploy Phab/Phorge 2026-08-25.
Aug 25 2026, 2:18 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), User-brennen, Collaboration-Services, Phabricator (2026-08-25)

Aug 24 2026

brennen renamed T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24 from Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5 to Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24.
Aug 24 2026, 9:00 PM · Essential-Work, dev-images, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team

Aug 21 2026

brennen added a comment to T434726: Where is my change running tool.

This is sick.

Aug 21 2026, 4:24 PM · Tool-wheres-my-code-running, Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎)

Aug 20 2026

brennen moved T377889: install a service on phab1005 from Backlog to Radar on the User-brennen board.
Aug 20 2026, 6:33 AM · Patch-For-Review, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, Collaboration-Services
brennen closed T432019: Move expiry.php into a Slim action, template, etc. as Resolved.
Aug 20 2026, 6:32 AM · Test Platform (Nairobi 29), User-brennen, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan)
brennen closed T432019: Move expiry.php into a Slim action, template, etc., a subtask of T395162: Template-ify Patch Demo index page, as Resolved.
Aug 20 2026, 6:32 AM · User-brennen, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan)

Aug 19 2026

brennen closed T423359: Upgrade Patchdemo/Catalyst PHP images to use PHP 8.3, ensure the node matches what's used in CI as Resolved.

The remaining item here is now T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24.

Aug 19 2026, 4:57 PM · Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), dev-images, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen added a comment to T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24.

Supersedes T423359: Upgrade Patchdemo/Catalyst PHP images to use PHP 8.3, ensure the node matches what's used in CI.

Aug 19 2026, 4:56 PM · Essential-Work, dev-images, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen moved T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24 from Backlog to Next on the User-brennen board.
Aug 19 2026, 4:55 PM · Essential-Work, dev-images, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen moved T413223: Migrate Wikimedia production from PHP 8.3 to PHP 8.5 from Next to Radar on the User-brennen board.
Aug 19 2026, 4:55 PM · User-brennen, ServiceOps, ServiceOps-Upgrades-Hardware, MediaWiki-Engineering
brennen moved T413223: Migrate Wikimedia production from PHP 8.3 to PHP 8.5 from Backlog to Next on the User-brennen board.
Aug 19 2026, 4:54 PM · User-brennen, ServiceOps, ServiceOps-Upgrades-Hardware, MediaWiki-Engineering
brennen added a comment to T435087: Phabricator Switchover - from phab1004 (Bullseye, PHP 7.4) to phab1005 (Trixie, PHP 8.4).

This will be happening tomorrow at: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1787205600

Aug 19 2026, 4:36 PM · Essential-Work, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, Collaboration-Services
brennen added a comment to T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24.

Capturing from @jnuche in RelEng meeting chat:

Aug 19 2026, 4:33 PM · Essential-Work, dev-images, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen changed the status of T413223: Migrate Wikimedia production from PHP 8.3 to PHP 8.5 from Open to In Progress.
Aug 19 2026, 4:31 PM · User-brennen, ServiceOps, ServiceOps-Upgrades-Hardware, MediaWiki-Engineering
brennen created T435368: Migrate Patchdemo & Catalyst to PHP 8.5, Node 24.
Aug 19 2026, 4:29 PM · Essential-Work, dev-images, Catalyst (Luka Ijo Pimeja Jan), User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team
brennen added a comment to T434626: Requesting GitLab account activation for gaiarajan.

User appears human and has an interest in a project hosted on GitLab. Not adding to Trusted-Contributors since I don't see a contribution history, but seems to meet the threshold for manual GitLab account approval. Happy hacking.

Aug 19 2026, 5:50 AM · Essential-Work, GitLab (Account Approval), Release-Engineering-Team
brennen closed T434626: Requesting GitLab account activation for gaiarajan as Resolved.
Aug 19 2026, 5:48 AM · Essential-Work, GitLab (Account Approval), Release-Engineering-Team
brennen closed T420485: GitLab Private Repository Request for: CSP Research as Declined.

Please reopen if this is still needed.

Aug 19 2026, 5:45 AM · GitLab (Project and group requests), Release-Engineering-Team, Essential-Work, User-brennen
brennen closed T432913: GitLab Private Repository Request for email-confirmation-statistics as Resolved.

Done.

Aug 19 2026, 5:44 AM · Essential-Work, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, GitLab (Project and group requests)
brennen added a comment to T435276: Requesting GitLab account activation for Camelliora.

Approved GitLab account based on a history of on-wiki contributions. Happy hacking!

Aug 19 2026, 5:33 AM · Essential-Work, GitLab (Account Approval), Release-Engineering-Team
brennen closed T435276: Requesting GitLab account activation for Camelliora as Resolved.
Aug 19 2026, 5:32 AM · Essential-Work, GitLab (Account Approval), Release-Engineering-Team

Aug 18 2026

brennen moved T430835: 1.47.0-wmf.16 deployment blockers from Backlog to Doing/Involved on the User-brennen board.
Aug 18 2026, 3:42 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), Essential-Work, Release, Train Deployments
brennen added a project to T430835: 1.47.0-wmf.16 deployment blockers: User-brennen.
Aug 18 2026, 3:42 PM · User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), Essential-Work, Release, Train Deployments
brennen moved T434819: PHP Warning: Undefined array key "status" from Backlog to Logs/Train on the User-brennen board.
Aug 18 2026, 3:41 PM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.16; 2026-08-18), User-brennen, Editing-team, Math, Wikimedia-production-error
brennen moved T407430: Upgrade MediaWiki-Docker PHP images to PHP 8.5 from Backlog to Radar on the User-brennen board.
Aug 18 2026, 3:40 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, dev-images, MediaWiki-Docker
brennen moved T435087: Phabricator Switchover - from phab1004 (Bullseye, PHP 7.4) to phab1005 (Trixie, PHP 8.4) from Backlog to Radar on the User-brennen board.
Aug 18 2026, 3:40 PM · Essential-Work, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, Collaboration-Services
brennen added projects to T407430: Upgrade MediaWiki-Docker PHP images to PHP 8.5: Release-Engineering-Team, Essential-Work, User-brennen.
Aug 18 2026, 3:16 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team, dev-images, MediaWiki-Docker
brennen added a project to T435087: Phabricator Switchover - from phab1004 (Bullseye, PHP 7.4) to phab1005 (Trixie, PHP 8.4): Essential-Work.
Aug 18 2026, 3:14 PM · Essential-Work, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, Collaboration-Services
brennen added a comment to T435087: Phabricator Switchover - from phab1004 (Bullseye, PHP 7.4) to phab1005 (Trixie, PHP 8.4).

Noting here after discussion with @Aklapper that we're pretty sure the current https://phabricator.wmcloud.org is working correctly.

Aug 18 2026, 3:13 PM · Essential-Work, User-brennen, Release-Engineering-Team, Collaboration-Services
brennen created T435213: Deploy Phab/Phorge 2026-08-18.
Aug 18 2026, 2:30 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), User-ABran-WMF, Collaboration-Services, Essential-Work, User-brennen, Phabricator (2026-08-18)

Aug 17 2026

brennen added a member for Trusted-Contributors: EBomani.
Aug 17 2026, 4:43 PM

Aug 13 2026

brennen closed T430834: 1.47.0-wmf.15 deployment blockers as Resolved.

Looking stable on all wikis. Optimistically resolving.

Aug 13 2026, 8:39 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Release, Train Deployments
brennen added a comment to T401115: Replace php-tideways_xhprof with php-xhprof in MediaWiki-Docker.

Published.

Aug 13 2026, 8:27 PM · MediaWiki-Core-Profiler, MediaWiki-Core-Platform-Team (Kanban), Release-Engineering-Team, dev-images, MediaWiki-Docker
brennen created T434819: PHP Warning: Undefined array key "status".
Aug 13 2026, 5:48 PM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.16; 2026-08-18), User-brennen, Editing-team, Math, Wikimedia-production-error

Aug 12 2026

brennen added a comment to T430834: 1.47.0-wmf.15 deployment blockers.

It's coming up on 17:00 local. Considering train parked overnight, pending a resolution on T434712. If no response from team there, a revert (as proposed by aaron on that task) seems like probably the way forward.

Aug 12 2026, 10:54 PM · User-brennen, Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥), Release, Train Deployments