1.17 has just been rolled out again, but there still seem to be load issues: see http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/?r=day&s=descending&c=
Pete / the wub On 8 February 2011 16:46, Bartol Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
