Hello and welcome to the latest 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_April_14th
First, please read this blog post regarding the WMF's response to the Heartbleed bug: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/10/wikimedias-response-to-the-heartbleed-security-vulnerability/
Other notable items...
== Monday ==
* Improvements to the new search (CirrusSearch). ** Two performance related and one broken feature.
* Revert font stack change in Typography Refresh to be just sans-serif ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125447/
* VisualEditor fixes: ** Adding a reference adds an empty one; editing a reference inserts a new one ** fix JS error on opening redirect pages
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.23wmf22: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf22
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.23wmf22 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.23wmf23 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki
* Media Viewer: ** Second limited pilot release: Enable by default on a few small pilot sites (batch 1: Catalan, Hungarian, Korean and Wikipedias, English Wikivoyage) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline
Thanks, and as always, questions welcome,
Greg
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Revert font stack change in Typography Refresh to be just sans-serif
To be clear per the amended commit message: this is just for the body font stack. All other aspects of the typography update (serif headsing, new font size, new body font color, spacing, etc.) are in place. This will also deploy a small bug fix which improves the line height (thanks Erwin!).
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
- VisualEditor fixes:
** Adding a reference adds an empty one; editing a reference inserts a new one ** fix JS error on opening redirect pages
+Enable VisualEditor on French Wikinews per community request
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