[Wikidata-tech] Please put deployment notes into commit messages!

We just discussed how to best make sure that any pre- or post-deployment tasks required by some core changes get done. We agreed on the following: If a change you submit to gerrit needs some pre- or post-deployment task to be performed (e.g. applying a database patch, changing a setting, purging some cache, etc), mention this in the commit message, using the DEPLOYMENT keyword (at the start of a line starting a new paragraph). E.g.: DEPLOYMENT: frob the xyzzy when deploying this change! I have written a brief deployment checklist that also reflects this new convention: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment Please extend/modify as appropriate. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.