On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:41 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Rob Lanphier wrote:
Thank you for posting here. I'm not sure about others, but I rarely visit
techblog.wikimedia.org. It's great news. :-)
No problem! One thing I forgot to mention (this goes for everyone) Please
spread the word! There are no doubt going to be people who are caught off
guard by this no matter where we post this, (possibly) short of
CentralNotice.
The
engineering team is busy working on the deployment of the 1.17 branch
of
MediaWiki[1]. We plan to roll this out next week
to all languages and
projects, Tuesday, February 8, with work starting at 07:00 UTC (which is
11pm on Monday, February 7 for San Francisco).
Can you explain why you're rolling out when it's the middle of the night
where Wikimedia is headquartered? I have a few different theories (site
traffic, time zones of the operations team, etc.), but a clarification here
would be good.
We lost the game of rock/paper/scissors. :) We decided to do this very
late U.S. west coast time so that our European and Australian contingents
would be well rested in case there are problems. Given that we have key
personnel pretty much all over the globe, there wasn't going to be a great
time for this, and this has the added advantage of being a relatively low
traffic time for us.
If all goes
well, you should only notice the improvement. If it doesn¹t
go
well, that¹s because there¹s something we missed,
and that¹s where we¹d
love
your help. Please help us test this release! We
have a test instance of
the
software we plan to deploy available at
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/.
Why is
prototype.wikimedia.org being used instead of test.wikipedia.org? I
was under the impression that the purpose of
test.wikipedia.org was a
pre-deployment launch pad while
prototype.wikimedia.org is used for
testing
new extensions/features. Has this changed?
Yeah it has. I don't recall the exact history of how we got to this point.
I imagine that the two should become one in the future.
Thanks again for the post. I really do appreciate it.
No problem!
Rob