quote name=Rob Lanphier date=2013-05-06 time=12:50:18 -0700
I've edited the page, called Greg's proposal Alternative A, and
added Alternative B which provides a little bit of time for catching
issues on mw.org:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/One_week
Take a look at the page
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 12:52 -0700, Greg Grossmeier wrote:
Also, the majority of bugs that
are in the Highest/Immediate priority level (from my gut assessment, I
don't have the data here) are found after a deploy to non-WP projects.
I agree with that impression: We don't get many (manually
Extrapolating from our experience from two-week deploy cycles and what
bugs we find at each stage, would moving to a one-week deploy cycle
substantially increase the number of users exposed to really bad bugs?
For instance, if we're currently finding and fixing about 2 deployment
blocker bugs per
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Let's move our MediaWiki deploy cycle to weekly instead of 2-week.
This will also reduce the number of standing deployment windows
throughout the week by having those projects/teams simply ride the
MediaWiki train.
\o/
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Extrapolating from our experience from two-week deploy cycles and what
bugs we find at each stage, would moving to a one-week deploy cycle
substantially increase the number of users exposed to really bad bugs?
quote name=Brad Jorsch date=2013-05-06 time=15:32:19 -0400
One other plan that was discussed in February, if I recall, was
something like this:
week0, Thursday: Deploy wmf1 to test and mw.org
week1, Monday: Deploy wmf1 to first-round wikis
week1, Thursday: Deploy wmf1 to remaining wikis
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yep, Robla's creating that sample calendar now.
My reasoning for removing that initial separation that may be faulty:
We're running automated and non-automated tests against betalabs, and
that has started producing
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm pretty sure this email will have a mid-air collision with Robla and
his writeup of the proposal you outlined, Brad.
I think Robla was the one who suggested it in February, actually. I
was just repeating it here.
quote name=Brad Jorsch date=2013-05-06 time=16:15:33 -0400
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm pretty sure this email will have a mid-air collision with Robla and
his writeup of the proposal you outlined, Brad.
I think Robla was the one who
