[Labs-l] Wikitech upgrade and config changes

[Andrew Bogott]

Executive summary:

Wikitech may be a bit different today.  Please log any new issues here: 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Labs 
and select 'wikitech-interface'.

The whole story:

Since the birth of Labs, wikitech.wikimedia.org (formerly known as 
'labsconsole') has been managed by hand by Labs operations staff. While 
wikitech was in rapid development it made sense to keep its off-the-cuff 
design, but now that it's become a (quite) essential and (fairly) stable 
part of our infrastructure, it was time to bring it into the fold.

So, as of today, wikitech is running a wiki config that's managed by our 
deployment infrastructure -- Internally, this is know as being 'on the 
deployment train.'  It's a good place to be -- wikitech will receive 
more timely updates, and can now be more easily configured by WMF staff 
and volunteers.  But, be warned:  since this entailed in a fresh build 
of wikitech from new code, there are bound to be unintended 
differences.  I haven't found any serious ones, but I bet you will!

Please be on the lookout for new bugs, unexpected changes of behavior, 
etc.  When you find problems, report them using the bugzilla link 
above.  If these issues are urgent (in other words, preventing you from 
doing stuff that you need to do) feel free to nag one of the involved 
people on IRC:  coren, bd808, reedy, or me (andrewbogott).

Many thanks to Bryan, Sam, Chad, Coren, and all others who helped with 
this endeavor!

-Andrew