Approved.

Err support sorry :)

As usual I think it would be useful to ask a few questions:

1. Other than emergencies what would you mainly want to work on eventually? (i.e. Varnish, MariaDB, etc.) (still focusing on MW related services of course)

2. Do you expect to continue to be as active as now in the future?

3. How will you ensure a good relationship with the Infrastructure team considering that some work that you'd be doing could overlap with Infrastructure work?

In T9657#195273, @Reception123 wrote:

As usual I think it would be useful to ask a few questions:

1. Other than emergencies what would you mainly want to work on eventually? (i.e. Varnish, MariaDB, etc.) (still focusing on MW related services of course)

Well, Varnish is probably one of my more-known services to be able to understand, at least to some decent extent, and would hopefully be able to work on some issues caused by Varnish, which is effecting MediaWiki services, such as some apparent issue with the way Varnish cache splitting is done, which causes some issues with UniversalLanguageSelector. I also suspect (though am not 100% certain) that the issue with MobileFrontend not loading Mobile resources is caused by Varnish. I would hopefully (most likely in the longer term) be able to investigate this, and other MediaWiki-related issues.

Another thing I would likely be able to do is handle wiki database reset or rename requests. I don't know I would want do those (or anything else MariaDB related) immediately (as not unless I were fully comfortable with it, as database is a highly sensitive service, that making the wrong mistake could be catastrophic, but I do use sql.php often, and no sql pretty good, so query wise I would be fine), but I would probably eventually. While those are a bit rarer and handled by Reception123 in a reasonable amount of time, it would not hurt to have someone else able to handle those requests.

2. Do you expect to continue to be as active as now in the future?

I do not expect to be as active as now, as in actively doing work here, but I do expect to at least be around as much as I am now when I am needed, or there is an issue requiring attention, or something else is needed. I do not mean I won't work on anything, but I won't be actively working on things 14 (or more) hours a day as I have been in the past either.

3. How will you ensure a good relationship with the Infrastructure team considering that some work that you'd be doing could overlap with Infrastructure work?

I think that I already work with infrastructure sometimes. For example, with working on getting infrastructure the MTR reports for the recent issues with packet loss, and working with them on debugging some other issues. I have also liaised with paladox in the past for things like rebooting Memcached, to ensure there was no production issues, since it effects MediaWiki services. I would continue to do this, and be able to assist infrastructure if requested, and when necessary to the best of my ability.

After reading the responses to the questions and discussing with John, we've decided to approve this request.

Unless someone else wants to I can do the on-boarding tomorrow.

I can do some of the onboarding now:

• shell
• icinga
• GitHub
• phab projects/badges
• OVH access
• Proxmox access