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phorge: move datacenter tasks to DC-Ops channel

Hashar requested to merge phorge-dcops into main

With the intent of reducing bot spam in #wikimedia-operations IRC channel, I have looked at the January logs. Out of 1462 messages coming from Phabricator tasks and more than half of them (827) were for datacenter operations.

Those messages match the '^ops' tags, which are tags for each of our datacenter (example: ops-eqiad). After a quick look at them, they are mostly for:

  • PDU sensor over limit
  • Degraged RAID
  • rack/setup/install
  • decommission hardware

Add the #wikimedia-dcops channel. An IRC operator MUST autovoice the bot (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibugs#Configuring_channels ):

/msg chanserv flags #wikimedia-dcops wikibugs +Vv

Move the regex out of #wikimedia-operations and make a bit more strict since ops is an alias to SRE.

While at it add matches for:

  • #DC-Ops, the team tag
  • #procurement, which does not always has an associated ops- tag.

Bug: T384804

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