Cross post.
Hi everybody!
As a reminder the CREDIT Showcase is next week on Wednesday,
1-February-2017 (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase for
details). Also, as I mentioned previously we're conducting a survey about
CREDIT. We'd appreciate your feedback! Here is a link to the survey (which
is hosted on a third-party service), and, for information about privacy and
data handling, the survey privacy statement.
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedAtyPfcEhT6OVd26…https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/CREDIT_Feedback_Survey_Privacy_Stateme…
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*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech
projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
Infrastructure and Technology teams. *
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
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Thanks!
Adam Baso
Director of Engineering, Reading
Wikimedia Foundation
abaso(a)wikimedia.org
That's right! At the Wikimedia Developer Summit, we decided to organize a
Developer Wishlist Survey, and here we go:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist
The Wikimedia technical community seeks input from developers for
developers, to create a high-profile list of desired improvements. The
scope of the survey includes the MediaWiki platform (core software, APIs,
developer environment, enablers for extensions, gadgets, templates, bots,
dumps), the Wikimedia server infrastructure, the contribution process, and
documentation.
The best part: we want to have the results published by Wednesday, February
15. Yes, in a month, to have a higher chance to influence the
Wikimedia Foundation annual plan FY 2017-18.
There's no time to lose. *Propose your ideas before the end of January, *
either by pushing existing tasks in Phabricator or by creating new ones.
You can find instructions on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist>. Questions and feedback
are welcome especially on the related Talk page.
The voting phase is expected to start on February 6 (tentative). Watch this
space (or even better, the wiki page).
Cheers,
Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate, Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
tl;dr: I have removed the Tuesday 19:00 UTC SWAT window from the
deployment calendar due to conflicts. Pick one of the other 11 SWAT
windows.
The (current) Tuesday 19:00 UTC SWAT window is directly before the 20:00
UTC MediaWiki train window.
The nature of SWAT windows meant that the state of the deployed
MW+Extension+Config code was changing while the creation of the new MW
train version (eg: 1.29-wmf.8) was happening. This causes delays and
confusion.
The simple solution is to not have a normal SWAT window at that time.
Other deploys (eg Services) are fine to happen at that time which is why
I didn't just extend the MW train window to include that earlier hour.
Luckily, you still have 11 SWAT windows to choose from. :)
Greg
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