Hi all,
the Reading Infrastructure team will try to enable AuthManager [1] in WMF production this week, with the following schedule:
- group0 Tuesday 22:00 UTC (yes, that's pretty much now)
- group1 Wednesday 22:00 UTC
- group2 Thursday 22:00 UTC
I apologize for the very late notice. I realize that such a change should ideally be fixed long before, advertised via the Tech news etc, but omitting that seemed like the lesser of two evils. We believe we need to get AuthManager into the 1.27 release as having to support two completely different authentication systems in the LTS release would be an unreasonable burden and risk; to do that, we need to test it in production in very short order, otherwise the release will be delayed a lot due to vacations and Wikimania; and we weren't sure until very recently whether we are able to keep to this schedule.
If all goes well, switching AuthManager on should have very little visible effect (see earlier announcements [2][3]), but with a change of this complexity all rarely goes well. If you see authentication-related problems, please ping or cc Brad Jorsch (IRC: anomie) and me (IRC: tgr). If we are not around and things break badly, you can revert by setting wgDisableAuthManager to true in wmf-config.
Gergő