Zachary Painter activity https://gitlab.com/z_painter 2026-03-17T20:07:32Z tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214566770 Zachary Painter pushed to project branch master at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T20:07:32Z z_painter Zachary Painter

Zachary Painter (f1dbe24b) at 17 Mar 20:07

Merge branch 'id/updateTokens9' into 'master'

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214565668 Zachary Painter deleted project branch id/updateTokens9 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T20:07:12Z z_painter Zachary Painter

Zachary Painter (3a0d1ecc) at 17 Mar 20:07

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214561540 Zachary Painter accepted merge request !227350: Update Access Token Docs - 9 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T20:05:58Z z_painter Zachary Painter

What does this MR do?

Reorganizes and standardizes the PAT, PrAT, and GrAT topics.

  • Cleans up and standardizes some of the wording in the Access token expiry section.

#591447

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214269468 Zachary Painter commented on merge request !227610 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T18:29:25Z z_painter Zachary Painter

@alvin do you think we need to include this suggestion?

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214267491 Zachary Painter commented on merge request !227610 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T18:28:45Z z_painter Zachary Painter

The suggestion from the author connects to the database, which is required before running GC queries on the database. I adjusted the wording to make that clear.

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214263058 Zachary Painter commented on merge request !227610 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T18:27:11Z z_painter Zachary Painter

@alvin thanks for this MR, it definitely is an improvement. I adjusted the wording slightly to make it more action-oriented. WDYT?

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214262207 Zachary Painter commented on merge request !227610 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T18:26:55Z z_painter Zachary Painter
Before running the following queries, connect to the container registry metadata database with this command:
tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214095962 Zachary Painter commented on merge request !227350 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T17:39:32Z z_painter Zachary Painter

@idurham OK, I see what you mean. I'm in favor of this approach personally. The deprecations page, in my opinion, is better suited for exhaustive details like this, and it provides a lot more context with the links pointing to the deprecation issues.

If you're fine with that, whenever you're ready you can remove the Draft status and I'll get this merged. I didn't see anything else in my review 🙂

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214089935 Zachary Painter approved merge request !227350: Update Access Token Docs - 9 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T17:37:41Z z_painter Zachary Painter

What does this MR do?

Reorganizes and standardizes the PAT, PrAT, and GrAT topics.

  • Cleans up and standardizes some of the wording in the Access token expiry section.

#591447

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5213200604 Zachary Painter deleted project branch docs-add-gc-stats-cmd at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T14:25:17Z z_painter Zachary Painter

Zachary Painter (1e12dbdd) at 17 Mar 14:25

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5213195100 Zachary Painter pushed to project branch master at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T14:24:16Z z_painter Zachary Painter

Zachary Painter (aed43c1d) at 17 Mar 14:24

Merge branch 'docs-add-gc-stats-cmd' into 'master'

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5213191863 Zachary Painter accepted merge request !226371: Container Registry: add gc-stats command at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T14:23:40Z z_painter Zachary Painter

What does this MR do?

Documents the new gitlab-ctl registry-database gc-stats command for monitoring online garbage collection health.

I've kept the old queries behind tabs while those version are still supported and tried to make the explanatory text match both methods.

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5213088199 Zachary Painter commented on merge request !226371 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T14:03:30Z z_painter Zachary Painter

@hswimelar this looks good, I'll approve and get this merged 🚀

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5213087323 Zachary Painter approved merge request !226371: Container Registry: add gc-stats command at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T14:03:20Z z_painter Zachary Painter

What does this MR do?

Documents the new gitlab-ctl registry-database gc-stats command for monitoring online garbage collection health.

I've kept the old queries behind tabs while those version are still supported and tried to make the explanatory text match both methods.

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-16:5209337356 Zachary Painter commented on issue #592618 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-16T17:01:50Z z_painter Zachary Painter

@trizzi as discussed on Slack, a follow-up item would be to update existing release posts and blog posts with "virtual repository". Also, what's the timeline to start working on this?

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-16:5209109712 Zachary Painter pushed to project branch master at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-16T16:06:14Z z_painter Zachary Painter

Zachary Painter (4e0ccb61) at 16 Mar 16:06

Merge branch 'id/updateTokens8' into 'master'

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-16:5209107383 Zachary Painter accepted merge request !227330: Update Access Token Docs - 8 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-16T16:05:41Z z_painter Zachary Painter

What does this MR do?

Reorganizes and standardizes the PAT, PrAT, and GrAT topics.

  • Moves the inactive token section to a more Admin focused area
  • Cleans up and standardizes wording in the expiry email section

#591447

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-16:5208809686 Zachary Painter deleted project branch 588604-update-link-text-11 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-16T15:03:30Z z_painter Zachary Painter

Zachary Painter (9bcd6cb1) at 16 Mar 15:03