*tl;dr*: use `scap backport <gerrit url>` to deploy MediaWiki backports ____

There’s now a *single step* to deploy changes to Wikimedia’s production MediaWiki.

🤯 An 85% reduction in command remembering!

On the deployment host run:

scap backport <gerrit url>

This works for any change to a live branch for mediawiki/core, extensions, skins, or operations/mediawiki-config. ____

More details (and a demo) inside Jeena Huneidi’s excellent write up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/297/scap_backport_makes_deployments_easy/ .

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– Tyler Cipriani (on behalf of the RelEngers https://releng.team who really do make dreams come true) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation