On 18 October 2013 15:26, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi folks,
after speaking to a few folks, I'd like to check in on the WMF deployment
train schedule overall, and see if there are ways to optimize it.
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I think Option B is a good option, and agree that it's a good think that it
forces us to have more discipline in the code that goes out in terms of
testing/scaling/happiness, rather than spotting issues in production and
using the "sister projects" as guinea pigs.
I'd note that this is effectively what we've had with VisualEditor since
the beginning of deployment train releases in May last year (before the
switch to weekly releases): because VE isn't deployed to any of the "sister
projects", we go live each Thursday to phase 0, and with the previous
version to phase 2; no wikis that get new code on Monday currently have VE
enabled.
J.
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James D. Forrester
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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