Hi everyone,
We attempted to deploy 1.21wmf8 using git-deploy[1], and ran into enough problems that we decided the best course of action is to use scap[2] today and for the foreseeable future.
The new plan is to implement scap/sync-file/sync-dir for Eqiad as a temporary solution for next week and possibly as much as a few weeks beyond that, and then deploy a new-and-improved git-deploy when we have the problems we uncovered today sorted out.
That means people deploying code *don't* have to learn a new system right away; scap/sync-file/sync-dir will remain the standard mechanism for the rest of this week and the rest of next at a minimum, and probably a while longer. Yay for the devil we know! :-)
Ryan and Chris will still be doing the tutorial tomorrow (lunchtime in SF). Ryan tells me that the changes he's planning are under-the-hood, and that users of the system shouldn't notice anything substantially different in the workflow.
Rob [1] http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Git-deploy [2] http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Scap