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

Tue Feb 8 16:46:49 UTC 2011

I don't know what you mean Stephanie. Wikipedia is still not working for me
right? anyone else having issue?

-- 
Bartol Flint
Student
Erasmus University Rotterdam

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Stephanie Daugherty <sdaugherty at gmail.com>wrote:

> As far as I'm aware, as a long standing matter of practice, WMF sites
> run the latest stable or development Mediawiki, as a matter of "eating
> our own dog food". That implies that the notice was merely a courtesy
> because the change was expected to cause downtime, rather than a point
> of discussion. My understanding is barring technical problems caused
> by an upgrade, individual projects have about the same chances to
> switch their project to Microsoft Sharepoint as they do to hold back
> an upgrade. This may seem unusual because everything else revolves
> around discussion, but the developers and sysadmins need consistency
> to be able to support as many projects as WMF hosts - otherwise they'd
> probably be looking at having 2-3 devs for each project in each
> language, which is simply unfeasible even with WMF's resources.
>
>
> -Stephanie
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Guillaume Paumier
> >> > Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation
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> >> >
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