This email is relevant for folks who generate wikis on PatchDemo[0], a pre-merge MediaWiki test tool. This email is for awareness, there should be nothing for you to do.

Today, following a brief read-only window, we moved PatchDemo to a new backend running on Kubernetes.

Environments created before now are available on the domain: patchdemo-legacy.wmcloud.org. For your convenience, any links to wikis created before today (including links to PatchDemo wikis from phabricator tasks) will redirect to this domain automatically.

As of now, PatchDemo wikis will be generated by a PatchDemo running within Kubernetes. Any bugs you notice should be reported to the Catalyst PatchDemo project in Phabricator[1].

Moving PatchDemo to Kubernetes is a first step toward scaling up the service to launch new wikis using Catalyst[2] an API for creating MediaWiki instances for CI and exploratory testing.

Thanks to Bartosz Dziewoński and Ed Sanders for their help and thought partnership as we worked through this transition.

– Jeena, Jaime, Stef, Tyler, Cindy, and Essie

[0]: https://patchdemo.wmcloud.org/ [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/7367/ [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catalyst