Hello,
I have been working on improving the process of creating with the goal of ultimately automating it (for now, it least eliminate the toil [1]).
The most exhausting (the toil) part of creating new wikis is keeping track of all of the moving parts, Is CX working? Is DNS entry deployed? ...
I started a code [2] that takes a bug id like (like T251371) and outputs all of the steps in pre-install and post-install if they are done or not. If you noticed, I have been adding this to bottom of the new wikis creation tickets:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251371
My next plan is to actually make maintenance bot [3] add these and keep track of them and in the next steps it would start creating patches and close/create tickets too but writing this is quite exhausting and gerrit's API is no less than a disaster. Any help is appreciated!
What I want to ask from langcom is to keep in mind that this code parses the text they put in the tickets they create to find out for example if the new wiki is a Wikipedia or a special wiki because it seems you're using a template. Do not change that pattern please, or at least let me know if you're changing it.