Hello Admins,

The build service is ready for the next phase, and we want to get some early users to test it and give early feedback!

This next step is going to start this Monday, when around 100 tool maintainers will kindly receive an email asking them to try and test the service.

The full list will be made available in the task [1]

You can read a draft of the email here[2]

Later next week, there will also be a session at the Athens Hackathon (thanks Slavina!) [3] introducing the build service to some new users too, as new user experiences give an important perspective too.

We will tentatively stay in this period of feedback for ~1 month. At that point we will sit back, reflect on the feedback (will share the thoughts with you too), and decide if we are ready for a broader announcement (cloud-announcement, blog post, …, to be defined), to start getting wider input.

In preparation for this, the team (including volunteers) has been working on setting up some minimal information on wikitech [4] and phabricator [5].

Feel free to add comments to the talk page [6] and/or make changes and fixes to those pages.

There's still many things to figure out, and many more will show up during this phase, your help and input will be critical in shaping this service.

I encourage you to try it out yourself if you have not, and open any bugs that you find or feature requests that you think would be useful, find the links for those in the feedback page [7].

You can see a more detailed planning in the task [1] (feel free to add comments there too)

Thanks for your continued support!

[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335249

[2]: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/tQr7TQr20xorkEXXk6Pj

[3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336055

[4]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service

[5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/6529/

[6]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Toolforge/Build_Service

[7]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Feedback