Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_14th
First, please read this blog post regarding the WMF's response to the
Heartbleed bug:
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/10/wikimedias-response-to-the-heartbleed-security-vulnerability/>
Other notable items...
== Monday ==
* Improvements to the new search (CirrusSearch).
** Two performance related and one broken feature.
* Revert font stack change in Typography Refresh to be just sans-serif
** <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125447/>
* VisualEditor fixes:
** Adding a reference adds an empty one; editing a reference inserts a
new one
** fix JS error on opening redirect pages
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.23wmf22: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf22>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.23wmf22 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.23wmf23 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki
* Media Viewer:
** Second limited pilot release: Enable by default on a few small
pilot sites (batch 1: Catalan, Hungarian, Korean and Wikipedias,
English Wikivoyage)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline>
Thanks, and as always, questions welcome,
Greg
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