Hello and welcome to the lates edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_July_21st>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* Wikitech wiki
** The MediaWiki install at <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org> will be
upgraded starting at 16:00 UTC
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf11: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf14>
** "Topic:" namespace added (for Flow)
== Wednesday ==
* Weekly fundraising banner test
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf14 (all Wikipedias)
*** "Topic:" namespace added (for Flow)
** group0 to 1.24wmf15 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
== Longer term ==
The plan (subject to change) for the next month or so:
* July 31st: Thumbnail styling change to testwikis
** <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65160>
* end of July: HHVM on all jobrunners
* end of July: Beta Feature: "in other projects" sidebar
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar>
** <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66226>
* Aug 5 - 10: Wikimania 2014 (critical deploys only)
* Aug 14: VE as default editing experience for tablets
* Aug 12 - 15: Thumbnail styling change to non-wikipedias then
wikipedias
* Mid-August: change default thumbnail size from 220px to 300px --
** <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67709>
** <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67703>
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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