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 -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |