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 <[email protected]>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 > <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected] > >> >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 <[email protected]> > >> > Reply-to: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > >> > À: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > >> > 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 > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Wikitech-l mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Guillaume Paumier > >> > Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation > >> > Support free knowledge: http://donate.wikimedia.org > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > foundation-l mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > -- > Faith is about what you really truly believe in, not about what you > are taught to believe. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
