On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:55:16 -0700, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
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_September_15th
A quick list of notable items...
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== Thursday ==
- MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf21 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.24wmf22 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
- There will be a method to opt-in to using the new HHVM-powered backend for all WMF wikis. It'll be implemented via a BetaFeature to make it as easy as possible for people to participate. There should be no noticeable negative impact and hopefully only positive impacts.
Greg,
The last dot point. Is it there against Thursday 18th? Is it to mark it against another point? The HHVM component sits against next month on the deployment page, so the uncertainty.
Further, as an 'ambassador', I am not sure how to take that dot point to the community, nor to how to explain it. [[mw:HHVM]] doesn't particularly help me, so for a nonce like me, it would be helpful if we could provide some pertinent dot points on what we can/should relay to wiki communities, and we should be looking for if things are going well or poorly.
Thanks. Regards, Billinghurst