2011/2/1 Rob Lanphier<robla(a)robla.net>et>:
Can you
explain why you're rolling out when it's the middle of the night
where Wikimedia is headquartered? I have a few different theories (site
traffic, time zones of the operations team, etc.), but a clarification here
would be good.
We lost the game of rock/paper/scissors. :) We decided to do this very
late U.S. west coast time so that our European and Australian contingents
would be well rested in case there are problems. Given that we have key
personnel pretty much all over the globe, there wasn't going to be a great
time for this, and this has the added advantage of being a relatively low
traffic time for us.
Look at
http://torrus.wikimedia.org/torrus/CDN?path=%2FTotals%2F and
you'll see that, for the past two days, the time of lowest traffic was
between 06:00 and 07:00 UTC. This has been a quite reliable pattern
for quite some time now (except that it shifts by an hour in Northern
Hemisphere summer, due to DST), and we've also used this time for the
first few Vector deployments.
[...]
Can you set a different deploy date for different projects? E.g. 18.00
UTC for Poland. I will not be able to be there when hell will brake
loose as I will be working and I'm sure most of the Polish tech admins
will be too. Note that we was able test Vector with current scripts
before the deploment so this is a bit different. And I still remember
the ammount of complaints bouncing here and there when Vector came and
broke Wikipedia and what not... Not that they were all valid and could
have been avoided, but maybe some could.
Not that I'm complaining ;-), but prototype is... well it's empty for
now and it would be good if we could test scripts and do it as fast (and
as soon) as possible. I've already asked Leinad, but maybe someone could
import current Mediawiki namespace to prototype quicker.
For one thing - I think our script for moving the search bar to the left
side panel will be probably broken (as you make it wider now) and this
will probably have to be fixed right after deployment...
Regards,
Nux.