Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-07-02 Thread Leon Ziemba
> Yes, though careful because CommunityTechBot shows up as a subscriber to lots of tasks now which are getting comments from other people, so it appears on the Cc list at the bottom of each email notification. Oh, oops :/ I think I can automate removing the bot as a subscriber? Will look into

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-07-02 Thread Alex Monk
Yes, though careful because CommunityTechBot shows up as a subscriber to lots of tasks now which are getting comments from other people, so it appears on the Cc list at the bottom of each email notification. On 2 July 2018 at 19:06, Ed Sanders wrote: > +100 > > Also a tip for those of you

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-07-02 Thread Ed Sanders
+100 Also a tip for those of you wanting to clear up the resulting email spam: you can temporarily turn off "conversation mode" in Gmail's settings, then search for messages from CommunityTechBot or the spammer, and delete all these emails without having to delete the threads they belong too. On

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-07-02 Thread Joel Aufrecht
Thank you Leon for this heroic effort, and thanks to everyone who helped in this cleanup. On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 9:58 AM Leon Ziemba wrote: > The bot has now completed it's run. If you see any outstanding tasks that > need to be repaired, please give me the task IDs. > > The bot ran for roughly

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-07-02 Thread Leon Ziemba
The bot has now completed it's run. If you see any outstanding tasks that need to be repaired, please give me the task IDs. The bot ran for roughly 36 hours, repairing at least 4,000 tasks (perhaps many more). There were some issues with the bot that may still affect your tasks: * The triage

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-07-01 Thread Mukunda Modell
Hi Leon. I can't thank you enough for your efforts to help clean things up in Phabricator. I can, however, help make the bot more effective. See below for responses inline. On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 10:47 AM Leon Ziemba wrote: > An update... the bot went to sleep as instructed a few hours after I

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-07-01 Thread Tyler Cipriani
I wrote a short, quick fixer script that is terrible, but is saving me some time in fixing some tasks today. I figured I'd share the script[0] on this list even thought it's very very (very) alpha and was written very quickly. Thank you to everyone looking at and thinking about this issue.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-07-01 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Hey Greg, Thanks for the update. Should we go head and start manually reverting the vandalism where we see it or is there any possibility of rolling everything back to before the attack? On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:57 PM Giuseppe Lavagetto < glavage...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2018

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-06-30 Thread Giuseppe Lavagetto
On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 7:16 AM Niharika Kohli wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:53 PM Greg Grossmeier > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Unfortunately we are experiencing spam in our Phabricator instance >> again and have decided to turn on the requirement for new account >> approval by Phabricator

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

2018-06-30 Thread Niharika Kohli
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:53 PM Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Hello, > > Unfortunately we are experiencing spam in our Phabricator instance > again and have decided to turn on the requirement for new account > approval by Phabricator admins as a mitigation step. > I'd request that it please be kept