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 -- Greg Grossmeier Release Team Manager