Currently, the only functionality of [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/projects/operations/software/gerrit/plugins/barricade | our barricade Gerrit plugin]] is to keep inactive users locked out.
We either need to ugrade the plugin or to the get the needed changes merged upstream.
As "allowing inactive users in" seems mostly like a bug, we're for now trying to get barricade functionality merged upstream (which takes maintenance off of our shoulders).
The corresponding upstream changes are:
* https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/265980 (Not yet merged, but a different variant from a gerrit maintainer got merged at https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/267241)
* https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/265979 (Merged)
* https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/265638 (Merged)
* https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/266501 (Merged)
* https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/266502 (Merged)