Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and
Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_October_13th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* 5% of reader (non-logged-in) traffic will be served by HHVM servers
** see: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HHVM/About>
* Otherwise, no deploys, it is a US Holiday.
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf1: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf3>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf3 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf4 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
--
Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager
And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, "closing" all the lost
PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla
reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 has a dump
from the etherpad and will be updated with more precise information.
Give a look at the bugzilla reports!
Thanks to all the participants: Andre Klapper, Anomie, Azitrex, bawolff,
Helder, John Vandenberg, Kelson, Nemo, Raymond, Reedy, Rupert, saper,
Steinsplitter, csteipp, ebraminio, jem, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
> We start in 30 min from now :)
>
> Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
>>
>> **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode
>> IRC.[2]
>>
>> We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
>> in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
>> new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
>> 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
>> tracker;[4]
>> 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
>> knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
>> something back.
>> We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
>>
>> This information and more can be found here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
>>
>> For more information on triaging in general, check out
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
>>
>> I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
>> talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
>> Sorry for the crossposting,
>> Nemo
>>
>> [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
>> [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
>> [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
>> [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, "closing" all the lost
PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla
reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 has a dump
from the etherpad and will be updated with more precise information.
Give a look at the bugzilla reports!
Thanks to all the participants: Andre Klapper, Anomie, Azitrex, bawolff,
Helder, John Vandenberg, Kelson, Nemo, Raymond, Reedy, Rupert, saper,
Steinsplitter, csteipp, ebraminio, jem, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
> We start in 30 min from now :)
>
> Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
>>
>> **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode
>> IRC.[2]
>>
>> We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
>> in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
>> new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
>> 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
>> tracker;[4]
>> 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
>> knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
>> something back.
>> We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
>>
>> This information and more can be found here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
>>
>> For more information on triaging in general, check out
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
>>
>> I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
>> talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
>> Sorry for the crossposting,
>> Nemo
>>
>> [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
>> [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
>> [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
>> [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
Different wikis often have different metadata formatting conventions
because it's just wikitext. How do the tracking categories know where to
find the information?
Deryck
>
> On 7 Oct 2014 00:03, "Gergo Tisza" <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> starting this Tuesday (on Commons) or Thursday (all other wikis), files
which do not have machine-parseable author, source, license or description
will be automatically added to tracking categories (one category for each).
The name of the categories will be determined by the following messages:
>>
>> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-license
>> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-description
>> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-author
>> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-source
>>
>> Translatewiki link:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-commons…
>>
>> If you would rather not have these tracking categories on your wiki, you
can achieve that by setting the content of the local message to "-" (a
single dash character).
>>
>> Links to the local message pages are available from
[[Special:TrackingCategories]].
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list
>> Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
>>
Hi all,
starting this Tuesday (on Commons) or Thursday (all other wikis), files
which do not have machine-parseable author, source, license or description
will be automatically added to tracking categories (one category for each).
The name of the categories will be determined by the following messages:
commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-license
commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-description
commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-author
commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-source
Translatewiki link:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-commons…
If you would rather not have these tracking categories on your wiki, you
can achieve that by setting the content of the local message to "-" (a
single dash character).
Links to the local message pages are available from
[[Special:TrackingCategories]].
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and
Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_October_6th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* HHVM planned to be serving 1% of reader traffic
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HHVM>
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf1: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf2>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf2 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf3 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
--
Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager