Awesome! This will make many teams very happy since they'll be moving faster.
What's the criteria by which you will evaluate the success of this?
Thanks, Dan On 27 May 2015 10:19 pm, "Greg Grossmeier" greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
Starting the week of June 8th we'll be transitioning our MediaWiki + Extensions deployment cadence to a shorter/simpler one. This will begin with 1.26wmf9.
New cadence: Tuesday: New branch cut, deployed to test wikis Wednesday: deployed to non-wikipedias Thursday: deployed to Wikipedias
This is not only a lot simpler to understand ("wait, we deploy twice on Wednesday?") but it also shortens the time to get code to everyone (2 or 3 days from branch cut, depending on how you count).
== Transition == Transitions from one cadence to another are hard. Here's how we'll be doing this transition:
Week of June 1st (next week):
- We'll complete the wmf8 rollout on June 3rd
- However, we won't be cutting wmf9 on June 3rd
Week of June 8th (in two weeks):
- We'll begin the new cadence with wmf9 on Tuesday June 9th
I hope this helps our users and developers get great new features and fixes faster.
Greg
endnotes:
- The task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97553
- I'll be updating the relevant documentation before the transition
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