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From: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Subject: HTTPS for logged in users delayed. New date: August 28
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
After assessing the current readiness (or lack thereof) of our HTTPS
code, we've decided to postpone the deployment for a week. We have a
number of things that we'd like to get cleaner resolution on:
* Use of GeoIP vs enabling on per wiki basis
* Use of a preference vs login form checkbox vs hidden option vs
sensible default
* How interactions with
login.wikimedia.org will work
* Validation of our HTTPS test methodology
The new plan is to deploy on Wednesday, August 28 between 20:00 UTC
and 23:00 UTC. Prior to that, we plan on having a very limited
deployment to our test wikis, and we're also planning to deploy to
mediawiki.org. Assuming this is sorted out and we have made our test
deployments by end of day Monday, August 26, we should have time to
validate our assumptions and give people time to see the new system in
action.
More info is (or will be) available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
(or here if you prefer:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS )
Thanks everyone for your patience.
Rob