Hoi,
What would more notice achieve ?
The process of installing release 1.17 is important. It did not succeed for
now but I hope it will be tried again when feasible. There are improvements
in 1.17 where people have been waiting for for a long time.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 8 February 2011 15:58, Bartol Flint <winters1c(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Did this something to have do with the downtime today.
I saw different
language project were not working at the same time. Some page still don't
look right. the box are broken and tools are not working.
More notice earlier please. Thank you.
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Bartol Flint
Student
Erasmus University Rotterdam
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
Concerns have been raised that this needed wider
distribution. Please
note that it will happen in about 10 hours from now.
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Sujet: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:45:30 -0800
Hi everyone,
Just repeating something I just posted to
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/planned-1-17-deployment/
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).
If all goes well, you should only notice the improvement. If it doesn’t
go
well, that’s because there’s something we missed,
and that’s where we’d
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/.
If
you find issues, please report them in Bugzilla:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla
There are many, many little fixes and improvements that have gone into
1.17
(see the draft release notes[2] for an exhaustive
list) . There isn’t
much
that’s visible to users of the site, but one
under the hood improvement
that
should result in some speed improvements: Resource Loader[3]. Resource
Loader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up delivery
of
JavaScript by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount of
unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first place.
Much of the work in this development cycle has been centered on ensuring
compatibility with the new system. Since it makes such a large shift in
the
way that JavaScript is delivered to the browser, it’s also an operational
aspect we’ll be keeping a close eye on, as load shifts between servers in
our infrastructure.
Note that this isn’t a release for download, yet. On and after February
8,
the “latest” version of MediaWiki will still be
1.16 as listed on
mediawiki.org. We plan to update this to 1.17 sometime after the
deployment
of the 1.17 branch, after we’ve had time to run it in production for a
while
and fix the issues we’re likely to find.
So please, help us test this release, and if you find bugs, please report
them in Bugzilla. Thanks!
Rob
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.17
[2]
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_17/phase3/RELEASE-N…
[3]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader
[4]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
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