[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
What would more notice achieve ?

The process of installing release 1.17 is important. It did not succeed for
now but I hope it will be tried again when feasible. There are improvements
in 1.17 where people have been waiting for for a long time.
Thanks,
       GerardM

On 8 February 2011 15:58, Bartol Flint <winters1c at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did this something to have do with the downtime today. I saw different
> language project were not working at the same time. Some page still don't
> look right. the box are broken and tools are not working.
>
> More notice earlier please. Thank you.
>
>
> --
> Bartol Flint
> Student
> Erasmus University Rotterdam
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier at wikimedia.org
> >wrote:
>
> > Concerns have been raised that this needed wider distribution. Please
> > note that it will happen in about 10 hours from now.
> >
> > -------- Message transféré --------
> > De: Rob Lanphier <robla at wikimedia.org>
> > Reply-to: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> > À: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Sujet: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8
> > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:45:30 -0800
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Just repeating something I just posted to
> > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/planned-1-17-deployment/
> >
> > The engineering team is busy working on the deployment of the 1.17 branch
> > of
> > MediaWiki[1].  We plan to roll this out next week to all languages and
> > projects, Tuesday, February 8, with work starting at 07:00 UTC (which is
> > 11pm on Monday, February 7 for San Francisco).
> >
> > If all goes well, you should only notice the improvement. If it doesn’t
> go
> > well, that’s because there’s something we missed, and that’s where we’d
> > love
> > your help.  Please help us test this release! We have a test instance of
> > the
> > software we plan to deploy available at http://prototype.wikimedia.org/.
> >  If
> > you find issues, please report them in Bugzilla:
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla
> >
> > There are many, many little fixes and improvements that have gone into
> 1.17
> > (see the draft release notes[2] for an exhaustive list) .  There isn’t
> much
> > that’s visible to users of the site, but one under the hood improvement
> > that
> > should result in some speed improvements: Resource Loader[3].  Resource
> > Loader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up delivery
> > of
> > JavaScript by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount of
> > unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first place.
> >  Much of the work in this development cycle has been centered on ensuring
> > compatibility with the new system.  Since it makes such a large shift in
> > the
> > way that JavaScript is delivered to the browser, it’s also an operational
> > aspect we’ll be keeping a close eye on, as load shifts between servers in
> > our infrastructure.
> >
> > Note that this isn’t a release for download, yet.  On and after February
> 8,
> > the “latest” version of MediaWiki will still be 1.16 as listed on
> > mediawiki.org. We plan to update this to 1.17 sometime after the
> > deployment
> > of the 1.17 branch, after we’ve had time to run it in production for a
> > while
> > and fix the issues we’re likely to find.
> >
> > So please, help us test this release, and if you find bugs, please report
> > them in Bugzilla.  Thanks!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.17
> > [2]
> >
> >
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_17/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES?view=co
> > [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader
> > [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
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