On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Just a reminder that we're deploying MediaWiki 1.19 to most Wikipedias in a few hours (including enwiki), starting at 23:00 UTC (3pm PST).
This work is mostly done. The biggest known problem we have is with language variants on the Chinese language wikis. See: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34832
We're going to give the original developer some time to respond on this issue before taking action. For now, several zh* wikis are on 1.18
We're also keeping an eye on site performance. There's been a slight regression in our parser cache hit rate: http://bit.ly/w6Gy9t
The new diff colors have been temporarily reverted. Trevor and Timo plan to spend some time looking into the subject. See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/112750
Saper and Aaron have spent some time cleaning up areas where CheckUser briefly stopped working properly: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34838
Mostly unrelated to 1.19 (mainly correlated), we've rolled back the Swift thumbnail deployment to correct many broken images. We'll be bringing Swift back online in the coming days after we've purged all of the broken images we know of from the system.
It'd be good to have more eyes on the recent bug list: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?chfield=%5BBug%20creation%5D&...
Thanks everyone for your help in making this deployment as smooth as possible!
Rob