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2020-12-17: NTPsec and GPSD projects incorrectly set to Private

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Summary

Two public projects for which I am an owner/maintainer, NTPsec and GPSD, had their private bit set and locked yesterday (2020-12-16).

Most of our developer community are not project members. This has cut them off from being able to contribute and stopped development in its tracks.

Timeline

Projects were locked yesterday following flurry of apparently autogenerated email from a a CI abuse detection system at GitLab.

We have investigated, and there are no recent changes to our CI configuration that could explain these emails.

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Corrective Actions


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Incident Review

Summary

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Metrics

Customer Impact

  1. Who was impacted by this incident? (i.e. external customers, internal customers)
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  2. What was the customer experience during the incident? (i.e. preventing them from doing X, incorrect display of Y, ...)
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  3. How many customers were affected?
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  4. If a precise customer impact number is unknown, what is the estimated impact (number and ratio of failed requests, amount of traffic drop, ...)?
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What were the root causes?

"5 Whys"

Incident Response Analysis

  1. How was the incident detected?
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  2. How could detection time be improved?
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  3. How was the root cause diagnosed?
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  4. How could time to diagnosis be improved?
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  5. How did we reach the point where we knew how to mitigate the impact?
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  6. How could time to mitigation be improved?
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  7. What went well?
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Post Incident Analysis

  1. Did we have other events in the past with the same root cause?
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  2. Do we have existing backlog items that would've prevented or greatly reduced the impact of this incident?
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  3. Was this incident triggered by a change (deployment of code or change to infrastructure)? If yes, link the issue.
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Lessons Learned

Guidelines

Resources

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