On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Andrew Bogott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Executive summary: > > Wikitech may be a bit different today. Please log any new issues here: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Labs and > select 'wikitech-interface'. > > The whole story: > > Since the birth of Labs, wikitech.wikimedia.org (formerly known as > 'labsconsole') has been managed by hand by Labs operations staff. While > wikitech was in rapid development it made sense to keep its off-the-cuff > design, but now that it's become a (quite) essential and (fairly) stable > part of our infrastructure, it was time to bring it into the fold. > > So, as of today, wikitech is running a wiki config that's managed by our > deployment infrastructure -- Internally, this is know as being 'on the > deployment train.' It's a good place to be -- wikitech will receive more > timely updates, and can now be more easily configured by WMF staff and > volunteers. But, be warned: since this entailed in a fresh build of > wikitech from new code, there are bound to be unintended differences. I > haven't found any serious ones, but I bet you will! > > Please be on the lookout for new bugs, unexpected changes of behavior, > etc. When you find problems, report them using the bugzilla link above. > If these issues are urgent (in other words, preventing you from doing stuff > that you need to do) feel free to nag one of the involved people on IRC: > coren, bd808, reedy, or me (andrewbogott). > > Many thanks to Bryan, Sam, Chad, Coren, and all others who helped with > this endeavor! > > \o/ Three cheers to all involved. I've wanted that for ages! - Ryan
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