On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Regardless of the branching strategy, the goal would be to start as early as April with much more frequent deployments to production. The deployment plan would look something like this:
- Deploy 1.20wmf01 to test2 real soon now (say, no later than April 16).
- Deploy 1.20wmf01 to mediawiki.org a couple deploy days after that
("deploy day" meaning Monday through Thursday)
- Let simmer for some short-ish amount of time (TBD)
- Roll out 1.20wmf01 to more wikis, eventually making it to all of them
Now that April is upon us, is there a more concrete timeline for getting deployment branches into Git and using them for deployment? As much as I love making patches between a Git repo and the deployment branch, I'm very eager for the migration as I expect it will make deployments much easier and less time consuming.
Also, what is the impact that this migration strategy will have on extension deployments? The mobile team makes code deployments very frequently and it would be helpful to be able to plan ahead around the migration timeline.