Meta:Push subscription managers
This page offers information about the push subscription managers user group.
Push subscription managers is a new user group introduced by the MediaWiki extension Echo with in August 2020.
According to the commit message, it will «allow privileged accounts to purge expired subscriptions from the database on behalf of other users». «This right will be granted to a bot account on Metawiki associated with the Wikimedia push notifications service, and the push notifications service account will make push subscription delete requests to the API for subscriptions for which vendor APIs return bad subscription responses».[1]
This group should exist only on Meta-Wiki. Errors have caused it to appear on all Wikimedia wikis.[2][3][4][5]
References
- ↑ Holloway, Michael D. (August 24, 2020). "Gerrit patch # 619570: Create push subscription manager group/right to clean up dead subs".
- ↑ MarcoAurelio (August 31, 2020). "Phabricator Task T261625: Limit the new "push subscription managers" user group to metawiki".
- ↑ Id. (August 31, 2020). "Gerrit patch #623370: CommonSettings.php: limit new Echo's `push-subscription-manager` group to Meta-Wiki".
- ↑ Urbanec, Martin (August 31, 2020). "Gerrit patch #623435: Follow-up for a1b0d6e: Get $wgDBname in Echo's ext function".
- ↑ February 2021 task explains why this keeps reappearing in all projects.