Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of August 19th

Quick update:

Visual Editor will be rolling out their latest wmf13 branch (not MediaWiki 1.22wmf13, but the VisualEditor code branched for wmf13) on the afternoon of Tuesday the 20th.

Wikitech Deployments page has been updated to reflect this.

Greg

<quote name="Greg Grossmeier" date="2013-08-16" time="15:34:21 -0700">

Here is your weekly dose of deployment highlights!

Full schedule always available at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments

Next week's: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_August_19th

Highlights below...

== Monday ==

• We'll be enabling Ceph on production. Ceph is used for storage of media files (eg: images, videos, etc). More (very detailed) information about this can be found at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ceph
• We'll be deploying OAuth to the set of test wikis (test.wikipedia, test2.wikipedia, mediawiki.org, and test.wikidata.org). More information about the OAuth work can be found at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Oauth
• MediaWiki 1.22wmf13 will be deployed to the second group of wikis, ie: all non-Wikipedia project sites. For the list of important changes, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13#Important_Changes

== Tuesday ==

• Notifications (Echo) will be deployed to the first set of non-english pilot sites, specifically French and Polish. See the Notifications release plan at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Release_Plan_2013

== Wednesday ==

• We will enable secure login (via HTTPS) by default. This means that all logged in users will read and edit the site via a secure connection over HTTPS. Given some restrictions/internet blocks in some jurisdictions, we will disable this feature on specific language wikis.

  There is a page on MetaWiki explaining this, with a link to the Wikimedia blog post that originally announced the plan here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

  This is a first step along a route to improved security while also taking into account internet censorship in certain jurisdictions.

  There will be more communication about this rollout on Monday the 19th.

== Thursday ==

• MediaWiki 1.22wmf13 will be deployed to the last group of wikis, ie: all Wikipedia project sites. For the list of important changes, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13#Important_Changes

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Greg

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