Hi all!

This year we're planning to freeze backport and train deployments Fri, Dec 22nd to Mon, Jan 1st.

November holidays, a Developer Experience Offsite, and the normal December freeze means there are only 4 more deployment trains this year for MediaWiki:

• 13 Nov - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.5 (this week)
• 20 Nov - No Train (Thanksgiving on Thu 23 Nov)
• 27 Nov - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.7
• 03 Dec - No Train (Developer Experience offsite)
• 11 Dec - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.9
• 18 Dec - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.10
• 25 Dec - No Train (Deployment Freeze)
• 01 Jan - wmf/1.42.0-wmf.12

All this information is on the yearly deployment calendar[0].

We freeze deployments every year for the end-of-December holidays and
the busy fundraising season[1][2][3][4][5].

Thanks!

Tyler Cipriani (he/him)
Engineering Manager, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation

[0]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>
[1]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2018/12>
[2]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2019/12>
[3]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2020/12>
[4]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2021/12>
[5]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2022/12>