Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_October_27th>
A quick list of notable items...
== All week ==
* Nightly localization (translation) update will be temporarily
disabled starting from 2014-10-27 because of migration of plural rules
to CLDR 26
** see <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62861>
** WHY? We are disabling the updates to reduce the chance of
ungrammatical translations being displayed in the interface.
Translators are requested to start updating translations from Tuesday
28th October 2014 onwards.
== Monday ==
* HHVM (improved MediaWiki server performance) will restart their
deployment plan (one week delayed) after a fix for a blocking
performance issue is deployed and tested on Monday.
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf5: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf5>
* Switching SpecialCite out for CiteThisPage
** <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71112>
** <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/158121>
== Wednesday ==
(NB: Note the change of day)
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf5 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf6 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager