FYI.

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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:10:34 -0700 From: Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: Deployment highlights - week of August 19th

Quick update:

Visual Editor will be rolling out their latest wmf13 branch (not MediaWiki 1.22wmf13, but the VisualEditor code branched for wmf13) on the afternoon of Tuesday the 20th.

Wikitech Deployments page has been updated to reflect this.

Greg

<quote name="Greg Grossmeier" date="2013-08-16" time="15:34:21 -0700"> > Here is your weekly dose of deployment highlights! > > Full schedule always available at: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments > > Next week's: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_August_19th > > Highlights below... > > == Monday == > * We'll be enabling Ceph on production. Ceph is used for storage of > media files (eg: images, videos, etc). More (very detailed) > information about this can be found at: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ceph > * We'll be deploying OAuth to the set of test wikis (test.wikipedia, > test2.wikipedia, mediawiki.org, and test.wikidata.org). More > information about the OAuth work can be found at: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Oauth > * MediaWiki 1.22wmf13 will be deployed to the second group of wikis, > ie: all non-Wikipedia project sites. > For the list of important changes, see: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13#Important_Changes > > == Tuesday == > * Notifications (Echo) will be deployed to the first set of non-english > pilot sites, specifically French and Polish. > See the Notifications release plan at: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Release_Plan_2013 > > == Wednesday == > * We will enable secure login (via HTTPS) by default. This means that > all logged in users will read and edit the site via a secure > connection over HTTPS. Given some restrictions/internet blocks in some > jurisdictions, we will disable this feature on specific language > wikis. > > There is a page on MetaWiki explaining this, with a link to the > Wikimedia blog post that originally announced the plan here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS > > This is a first step along a route to improved security while also > taking into account internet censorship in certain jurisdictions. > > There will be more communication about this rollout on Monday the > 19th. > > == Thursday == > * MediaWiki 1.22wmf13 will be deployed to the last group of wikis, ie: > all Wikipedia project sites. > For the list of important changes, see: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13#Important_Changes > > > If you have any questions, please let me know. > > Greg > > -- > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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