Message: 4
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:30:44 -0700
From: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming MediaWiki 1.18 deployment
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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Hi folks,
I just wanted to quickly highlight the plan that we have for deploying
MediaWiki 1.18 to the Wikimedia sites:
* Monday, September 19 (-20), 23:00-01:00 UTC (4pm-6pm PDT):
MediaWiki 1.18 deployment to test2
* Wednesday, September 21 (-22), 23:00-03:00 UTC (4pm-8pm PDT):
MediaWiki 1.18 stage 1 deployment (simplewiki, simplewiktionary,
usabilitywiki, strategywiki, mediawikiwiki, hewikisource)
* Monday, September 26 (-27), 23:00-03:00 UTC (4pm-8pm PDT):
MediaWiki 1.18 stage 2 deployment (metawiki, enwikiquote, enwikibooks,
betawikiversity, eowiki, nlwiki)
* Tuesday, October 4 (-5), 23:00-03:00 UTC (4pm-8pm PDT): MediaWiki
1.18 stage 3 deployment (remaining wikis)
More about MediaWiki 1.18 can be found here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18
The main blocker right now? Code review:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.18/Revision_report
See Mark's email earlier today for more detail on this. Please chip
in where you can.
Thanks!
Rob
btw, could refreshImageMetadata.php be run on wmf wikis some time
after the deployment? 1.18 contains lots of new code related to Exif
support (and related image metadata stuff). The maintenance script
just regenerates img_metadata based on the source image.
-bawolff