[Wikitech-l] RESULTS! Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2024

Myrick who was an absolute hero processing, exploring, graphing, and patiently explaining all the data. <3 Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: < https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/m

[Wikitech-l] Re: Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey, December 2023

who've submitted surveys so far. Everyone else: you've got one more day! Thanks all! – Tyler On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 9:35 AM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > Hello! > > > Please take the December 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey! > > > Link: <https://wikimediafoundation.

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey, December 2023

ubject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the privacy statement. <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:December_2023_Developer_Satisfaction_Survey> Thank you! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedi

[Wikitech-l] End of year deployment freeze 2023 略

this information is on the yearly deployment calendar[0]. We freeze deployments every year for the end-of-December holidays and the busy fundraising season[1][2][3][4][5]. Thanks! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.

[Wikitech-l] [Train] 1.41.0-wmf.29 is blocked

a high error rate on commons and wikidata Once these issues are resolved, the train can resume. If these issues are resolved on a Friday the train will resume Monday. Thank you for your help resolving these issues! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Fo

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.41-alpha will be branched as a beta on 10 October 2023

, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.41.0 a few weeks after that. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins> [1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes>

[Wikitech-l] GitLab test instance "People/Trusted Contributors" group

nk :)) Our test instance is a low-stakes way to try changes. Feel free to login, poke around, and leave comments on Phabricator[0]. Thanks! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/

[Wikitech-l] 六‍ RESULTS! Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023

who was a hero processing, exploring, graphing, and patiently explaining all the data. <3 Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research> ___ W

[Wikitech-l] Re: Research on Wikimedia Production Errors

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 12:40 AM Physikerwelt wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any research on common causes of Wikimedia production errors? > > Based on recent examples, I plan to analyze and discuss how production > errors could be avoided. I am considering submitting a short paper on > that to

[Wikitech-l] No train the week of 2023-06-19

continue as planned. A long-term calendar of upcoming known deployment disruptions is available on Wikitech[1]. Thank you! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth> [1]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Re: Extension! Re: Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023 六‍

oon? It has been more than 3 months. > > -- > Brian > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 8:30 AM Tyler Cipriani > wrote: > >> >> *Good news—✨you've got another week!✨* >> We're extending the deadline to submit your answers to this year's >> Devel

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit replica downtime (30 minutes) tomorrow Tue, 16 May 13:00-15:00 UTC

for git read operations. Apologies for any inconvenience. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gerrit/Replica> [1]: <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1684242019> [2]: <https://phabricato

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit downtime maintenance Wed, 10 May 2023 14:00–15:00 UTC

Hi All We're moving the primary Gerrit host to new hardware on *Wed, 10 May 2023 at 14:00 UTC*[0] There will be downtime during the move. I expect downtime to be less than the full hour, but please plan for a full hour. Apologies for the inconvenience :( Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering

[Wikitech-l] Aphlict (Phabricator's notification service) downtime tomorrow between 13:00–15:00 UTC

on Phabricator - Real-time workboard updates—you'll need to refresh the page to see other people's workboard changes. Apologies for any inconvenience. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Aphlict&

[Wikitech-l] Phabricator downtime (30 minutes) tomorrow between 14:00–16:00 UTC

Hello *Phabricator will be down for 30 minutes tomorrow (Tue, 28 Mar 2023) between 14:00–16:00 UTC* due to network switch upgrades in its data center row[0]. Apologies for the inconvenience :( Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <ht

[Wikitech-l] GitLab downtime Mon, 27 Feb 10:00 AM–noon UTC

:( The process will involve a full backup of the GitLab server in the eqiad datacenter, which serviceops will then restore on the GitLab server in the codfw datacenter. You can follow along on IRC in the libera.chat #wikimedia-gitlab channel[2]. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release

[Wikitech-l] Extension! Re: Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023 六‍

this year and we're s close. Thank you to those who've submitted surveys so far. Everyone else: you've got another week! Thanks! – Tyler On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 2:32 PM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > Hello! > > Please take our annual* *Developer Satisfaction Survey*! > &

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.40-alpha will be branched as a beta on 13 March 2023

goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.40.0 a few weeks after that. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins> [1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes>

[Wikitech-l] CI downtime (30 minutes) tomorrow between 14:00-16:00 UTC

with the word "recheck" or rebasing your patch[1]. Apologies for the inconvenience :( Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327925> [1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023 六‍

gal:2023_Developer_Satisfaction_Survey_Privacy_Statement> . Thank you! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation *: “annual,” except we missed 2022  ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsub

[Wikitech-l] Re: Gitlab Runner on Toolforge

rds instance-wide shared runners now. I hope we'll have news to share in this space soon. Release Engineering has this in our current sprint backlog and will be making some updates to missing components over the next few weeks—stay tuned. Thanks! – Tyler Marcin > ----

[Wikitech-l] Re: Gitlab Runner on Toolforge

Hi Marcin! It may be possible to set up a runner on toolforge, but I am unaware of anyone doing that yet. We have runners available under the "repos" namespace (that is any project under the umbrella of https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos ). But instance-wide runners are still in the works—you

[Wikitech-l] End of year deployment freeze 略

deployment calendar[0]. We freeze deployments every year for the end-of-December holidays and the busy fundraising season[1][2][3][4][5]. <3 Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calend

[Wikitech-l] Summary of 1.40.0-wmf.7 train deployment

rk to make running maintenance scripts that interact with the database better and safer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298485 Until next train! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikit

[Wikitech-l] Re:  Deploying MediaWiki at Wikimedia just got easier!

t each patch >>> separately. I also parallelize some of the steps (such as, +2'ing a config >>> patch during the sync step), which also saves a bit of time. How would I do >>> this with scap backport? By +2'ing the patch manually, and then letting

[Wikitech-l] Re:  Deploying MediaWiki at Wikimedia just got easier!

gt;> window), because I want to save time. It enables me to deploy more patches >>>> than I would be able to deploy with scap backport +2'ing it each patch >>>> separately. I also parallelize some of the steps (such as, +2'ing a config >>>> patch during the sync

[Wikitech-l]  Deploying MediaWiki at Wikimedia just got easier!

for mediawiki/core, extensions, skins, or operations/mediawiki-config. More details (and a demo) inside Jeena Huneidi’s excellent write up <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/297/scap_backport_makes_deployments_easy/> . <3 – Tyler Cipriani (on behalf of the RelEngers <https:/

[Wikitech-l] Summary of 1.39.0-wmf.28 train deployment

resolved blockers: Kosta Harlan Jon Robson And thanks to Erik Bernhardson for reporting an incoming  risky change <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Risky_change_template> Next stop: 1.40.0-wmf.1 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314190>! <3 Tyler Cipriani (he/

[Wikitech-l] Re: No train the week of 2022-08-08 (next week)

er [0]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314186> > > בתאריך יום ו׳, 5 באוג׳ 2022, 20:09, מאת Amir E. Aharoni ‏< > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > >> Thanks for the notification. >> >> Is there a train during the week of Wikimania? >> >> בתאריך יום ו׳,

[Wikitech-l] Re: No train the week of 2022-08-08 (next week)

Correction: "global holiday" should read "international holiday for US WMF staff" On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 11:00 AM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > Hi All > > There will be no train next week (Mon, 08 Aug–Fri, 12 Aug)—there is a > global holiday[0] on Tuesday (the be

[Wikitech-l] No train the week of 2022-08-08 (next week)

). We keep a yearly calendar of deployment disruptions on the Wikitech wiki[2]. Thanks all! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_the_World's_Indigenous_Peoples > [1]:

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.39-alpha will be branched as a beta on 5 September 2022

, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.39.0 a few weeks after that. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins> [1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes>

[Wikitech-l] No train the week of 2022-07-11

! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius

[Wikitech-l] Phabricator maintenance tomorrow 15:00 UTC (08:00 PDT)

for anyone. But having more folks around at the time of the upgrade mitigates some of the risks, too. Thank you! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1655305257> [1]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Re: Phabricator maintenance tomorrow 00:00 UTC (17:00 PDT)

, 2022 at 3:29 PM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > > Phabricator (phabricator.wikimedia.org) will be down tomorrow sometime > during the 00:00–02:00 UTC[0] maintenance window[1]. > > We're deploying updates during that time, and we'll stop Phabricator > briefly to run database migr

[Wikitech-l] Phabricator maintenance tomorrow 00:00 UTC (17:00 PDT)

Phabricator (phabricator.wikimedia.org) will be down tomorrow sometime during the 00:00–02:00 UTC[0] maintenance window[1]. We're deploying updates during that time, and we'll stop Phabricator briefly to run database migrations. Thanks! – RelEngers [0]:

[Wikitech-l] 力 GitLab-a-thon is over—Review + Next steps

GitLab-a-thon was a RelEng & ServiceOps sprint[0]. This email is an update on what happened during the sprint and what comes next. Read more on our blog: < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/288/gitlab-a-thon/> *Goals* Our shared goal was deploying a Wikimedia production

[Wikitech-l] Re: RelEng GitLab-a-thon sprint next week; skipping 1.39.0-wmf.11 train

On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 9:31 PM Kunal Mehta wrote: > On 5/2/22 12:55, Brennen Bearnes wrote: > > Goal for this sprint:***Migration of blubber / blubberoid to GitLab* > > This sounds great, but...that also means blubber is going to disappear > from IRC notifications[1], will be disconnected from

[Wikitech-l] Re: Requesting feedback about the future of the LocalisationUpdate extension

 I have a few questions about the tarball release and the Wikimedia sites. On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 5:22 AM Niklas Laxström wrote: > Since the beginning of the year, the Wikimedia Language team has enabled > translation backports for MediaWiki core, extensions and skins hosted on > Gerrit. On

[Wikitech-l] 離Trainsperiment Survey Results

rked with us while we tried something new. <3 Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wiki

[Wikitech-l] Re: 離Trainsperiment Survey (Due April 8th)

278/a_trainsperiments_week_reflection/> . Thanks and Enjoy! – Tyler On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 2:00 AM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > The Trainsperiment is complete! > > Thank you to all the folks who commented and helped solve blockers— > *together* *we deployed four trains in one week!* > &g

[Wikitech-l] 離Trainsperiment Survey (Due April 8th)

to take a survey, we'd appreciate it. - Link: https://forms.gle/8P8BDuUrT1JKtCu36 - Deadline: We'll leave the survey open until *Friday, April 8th* We'll share what we learn (anonymously) shortly after that! ___ Thanks all! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering

[Wikitech-l] 離 Trainsperiment week – Four trains this week

in #wikimedia-operations on Libera.chat in IRC. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Trainsperiment_week#Schedule > [1]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/De

[Wikitech-l] 離 Announcing Trainsperiment Week

bricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5811/ Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.o

[Wikitech-l] Re: [engineering-all] 力 One minute GitLab update

2022 at 5:14 PM Tyler Cipriani > wrote: > >> *Reading time: *1 minute >> >> This email is an information-only (no action needed), brief, regular* update >> on Wikimedia GitLab happenings. >> ___ >> >>  *Status: Under construction!* >> >>

[Wikitech-l] Re: 錄 Diving Into Wikimedia Deployment Data

Hi Risker! On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 5:52 PM Risker wrote: > Thank you very much for sharing this data, Tyler (and to the team that > researched and analysed it, as well). I think it shows that the train has > been pretty successful in mitigating the issues it was intended to improve. I think

[Wikitech-l] 錄 Diving Into Wikimedia Deployment Data

<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/272/diving_into_our_deployment_data/> - The data is open: 力 GitLab train-stats <https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/thcipriani/train-stats> - Play with the live data (if you'd rather dive into SQL):  data.releng.team <https://data.releng.team/train>

[Wikitech-l] Re:  Backport window timeslot changes

2 at 7:32 PM Tyler Cipriani > wrote: > > > > tl;dr: Backport windows will shift earlier in the (UTC) day starting on > Mon, Feb 14th. > > > > Problem > > Some backport windows have few deployers, and windows are not evenly > distributed for global users—the window

[Wikitech-l]  Backport window timeslot changes

s much earlier - UTC-Late backport is pretty early, too <3 Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki

[Wikitech-l] [Train] 1.38.0-wmf.13 blocked

- Impact unclear, maybe not a blocker Once these issues are resolved train can resume. If these issues are resolved on a Friday the train will resume Monday. Thank you for your help resolving these issues! – The Management Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineer

[Wikitech-l] Train is cancelled this week

Hi all! I know this is a past-due notice considering it's Wednesday. But I'm cancelling the train for this week. We are distracted by some internal changes, and I don't feel that we have the capacity to devote attention to these internal changes and do the train as well. Sorry all :( Tyler

[Wikitech-l] [Train]  1.38.0-wmf.9 status update

098> Once these issues are resolved train can resume. Thank you for your help resolving these issues! -- Your humble train toiler [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293950> [1]. <https://versions.toolforge.org/> Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Eng

[Wikitech-l] End of year deployment freeze 略

]. Thanks! <3 Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> [1]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Archive/2017/12> [2]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/D

[Wikitech-l] Re:  Summary of 1.38.0-wmf.2 train deployment

epo <https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/thcipriani/train-stats>. Hopefully, that's helpful for the curious or confused. <3 – Tyler On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 5:26 PM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of > 1.38.0-wmf.2. > >- Conduct

[Wikitech-l]  Summary of 1.38.0-wmf.2 train deployment

d for glory thanks to: - DannyS712 - Legoktm - Kosta Harlan - Samuel - Krinkle - Jon Robson - Olga Vasileva - Taavi Väänänen - Petr Pchelko - Zabe Sincere trainbow appreciation to you all <3 With wikilove, Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release

[Wikitech-l] Backport window name updates

d-day backport window* - *UTC evening* – 18UTC/11PDT – previously named *Morning backport window* - *UTC late* – 23UTC/16PDT – previously named *Evening backport window* ___ Thanks to Kosta <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290859> for the suggestion and review. <

[Wikitech-l] Re: How we deploy code

ails that you couldn't understand without the gist and >>important details >> >> >> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) >> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 4:04 PM Greg Grossmeier >> wrote: >> >>> This is great, th

[Wikitech-l] Re: GitLab: Users renamed to match shell names

This is great! Thank you, Brennen. On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 3:50 PM Brennen Bearnes wrote: > Hey all, > > A quick note that, after discussion on T288392[0], we've reconfigured > gitlab.wikimedia.org to use shell names for users instead of the LDAP > CN, and renamed all existing logins to match.

[Wikitech-l] How we deploy code

tps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/253/how_we_deploy_code/> My goal was to write a very high-level overview of the process we use to deploy code to Wikimedia production. Hopefully, this is helpful. <3 – Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia F

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.37-alpha will be branched as a beta on 14 September 2021

iki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins> [1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes> [2]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.37-release/> Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailin

[Wikitech-l] No train the week of 2021-09-06

on Wikitech: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar Thank you! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send

[Wikitech-l] Re: (no subject)

Hi Siddhi Here's the link to the Wikimedia organization on Github: https://github.com/wikimedia Here's a link to MediaWiki on GitHub in case that's helpful: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki These repositories are (mostly) mirrored from our Gerrit instance where we do code reviews and

[Wikitech-l]  Summary of 1.37.0-wmf.18 train deployment

This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of 1.37.0-wmf.18. - Conductor: Jeena Huneidi - Backup: Mukunda Modell - Blocker task: T281159 - Status: Live on all wikis *Stats* - 244

[Wikitech-l]  Summary of 1.37.0-wmf.16 train deployment

This email is a summary of the Wikimedia production deployment of 1.37.0-wmf.16. Mukunda Modell was the train conductor last week. Antoine Musso (hashar) was the backup conductor. Blocker task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281157 The new version is live on all sites:

[Wikitech-l]  Summary of last week's deployment of 1.37.0-wmf.15: Another Successful Trainbow*!

This is a belated summary of *last week*'s deployment of the 1.37.0-wmf.15 branch of MediaWiki, extensions, and skins (also known as "the train"). The primary person in charge last week was Antoine (hashar) Musso, with Ahmon Dancy as backup, both from the Wikimedia Foundation Release Engineering

[Wikitech-l] Re: Why does the train start on Tuesday?

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 10:47 PM Risker wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 at 19:26, Tyler Cipriani > wrote: > >> * Can we do something to improve the speed from "a user notices an issue >>> with the site" to "the right team/owner is aware of it and acts o

[Wikitech-l] Re: Why does the train start on Tuesday?

(Late reply: I was out the week this was sent, then another week of vacation happened) On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 2:59 AM Jaime Crespo wrote: > * How often are issues surfaced in the group0 -> group1 vs group1 -> > group2, are there any stats to back the need for a change there? > The closest

[Wikitech-l]  2021 Developer satisfaction survey results

resources to improve. ➡️ Folks should read it, talk about it, and ask questions (please ;))! <3 - Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-March/094317.html> [1]: <https://www.mediaw

[Wikitech-l] No deploys next week (week of 2021-06-14)

/Yearly_calendar Thanks! Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] The More You Know*: Wikimedia’s Kubernetes Pipeline

experience with a class or tutorial. Otherwise stay tuned and watch that page for additional resources to be added. You will hear from us again as we have additional things to report. – <3 Tyler Cipriani (he/him) (On behalf of all the fine folks working on Kubernetes for MediaWiki) Engineering Mana

[Wikitech-l] Re: No train the week of 2021-05-31

A quick reminder ICYMI that there is no train next week. <3 – Tyler On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 5:44 PM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > Hi All > > There will be no train 2021-05-31 (2021-05-31–2021-06-04) — having our > Engineering Productivity offsite. > > There is a long-term calen

[Wikitech-l] No train the week of 2021-05-31

Hi All There will be no train 2021-05-31 (2021-05-31–2021-06-04) — having our Engineering Productivity offsite. There is a long-term calendar of upcoming known deployment disruptions available on Wikitech: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar Thanks! Tyler Cipriani

[Wikitech-l] Summary of *last week*'s deployment of 1.37.0-wmf.4

This is a belated summary of *last week*'s deployment of the 1.37.0-wmf.4 train. The primary train conductor for the week was Brennen Bearnes, with Lars Wirzenius as backup in European timezones and considerable assistance from Ahmon Dancy. The blocker task for the week was:

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.36 Release Bugfix Bugging

se notes <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_36/RELEASE-NOTES-1.36>  Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lis

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.36.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.36.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.36.x. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. Please note that MediaWiki 1.36 now requires the PHP internationalization extension,

[Wikitech-l] Backport deployment training!

Hello potential deployers! We're starting backport deployment training for people interested in learning how to deploy safely . Training happens in the #wikimedia-operations IRC channel as

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.36-beta has been branched

Hi All On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:36 PM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.36.0-rc.0, in two weeks' > time, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.36.0 a few weeks after > that. > With the "two weeks" deadline of the

[Wikitech-l] No train the week of 2021-04-19

Hi All There will be no train next week (the week of 2021-04-19) due to a wmf holiday on 2021-04-22. There is a long-term calendar of upcoming deployment disruptions available on Wikitech: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar Thanks! – Tyler

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.36-beta has been branched

Hey all, This is a quick note to highlight that the REL1_36 branch has now been created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git[0]. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.36, which should be out in late May 2021, approximately nine months

[Wikitech-l] Deployment calendar format change

tl;dr: The deployment calendar format will change in 2 weeks (2021-04-05) to make it easier to edit with visual editor https://w.wiki/a3b I updated the deployment calendar for the week of 2021-04-05[0] to use a different format than in the past (compare to next week[1]). My hope is that this new

Re: [Wikitech-l] Train vs Backport for Wikimedia Deployment

Hi! On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 2:59 PM Kunal Mehta wrote: > > As with all things, some exceptions may apply. The Release Engineering > > team has created some guidelines[0] that will hopefully help explain > > when something MUST, SHOULD, or MAY[1] be deployed via the train or via > > backport. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit authentication fails

Hi Swathi! In looking in the gerrit logs it looks like you have two wikitech developer accounts and there are failures signing in with the most recent one. This is because Gerrit uses a single primary email per account and since you've already signed in with your previous username that email is

[Wikitech-l] Train vs Backport for Wikimedia Deployment

Hi All! tl;dr: if you're a developer looking for guidance on how to deploy changes to Wikimedia's MediaWiki cluster read https://w.wiki/36nY ; if you have thoughts on our existing deployment documentation comment on https://w.wiki/36nZ --- Over time The Train™ has become the default way to

[Wikitech-l] [Train] 1.36.0-wmf.30 is in danger

Hiya all tl;dr: help us fix (or convince us not to care about): * No atomic section is open (got LocalFile::lockingTransaction)[0] Longer: We've been on 1.36.0-wmf.27 for two weeks which is 1,038 changes behind 1.36.0-wmf.30 (the latest branch). The remaining issue is: "No atomic section is

[Wikitech-l] [Train] 1.36.0-wmf.30 status -- wmf.28, wmf.29: abandoned

Hi all All wikis except testwikis are on 1.36.0-wmf.27; testwikis are running 1.36.0-wmf.30. We've rolled back to wmf.27 so that we have a stable base version from which to roll out wmf.30. We will proceed with rollout of wmf.30 once this cherry-pick for wmf.30 is code-reviewed:

[Wikitech-l] Last deployments of 2020 next week

Hi All, Every year we stop deployments for the last full week of the year. As we enter the last couple weeks of the year, I wanted to send out a reminder that next week is the final deployment week of the year and that wmf/1.36.0-wmf.22 will be the last train release of the year. The deployment

[Wikitech-l] [Train] 1.36.0-wmf.20 status update

MediaWiki and extensions 1.36.0-wmf.20[0] is only deployed to testwikis[1]. We rolled back[2] today due to: * T269396 Parser cache serving old results[3] If these issues are resolved we can roll the train forward Monday.[4] Thanks all! -- Tyler [0]:

[Wikitech-l] Deployment train next two weeks (2020-11-02, 2020-11-09)

Hi all, We've entered that special time of year where the weekly deployment train has a few disruptions coming up. I've added a list of train disruptions through the end of the year to the Deployments page on Wikitech[0]. Next week's train will happen, but the schedule will be different

[Wikitech-l] No train next week; no deployments next Tuesday

Hi all There is a planned datacenter switchback next week scheduled for Tuesday, October 27th 2020[0]. To avoid creating problems for our SREs we'll be skipping the train for next week -- the week of 2020-10-26. Additionally, we want to avoid deploys for a full 24 hours following the switchover.

Re: [Wikitech-l]  Wikimedia production errors help

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:06 AM Brennen Bearnes wrote: > On 9/15/20 9:43 AM, Alex Ezell wrote: > > Do we use levels for any of these error log outputs? That is, are they > > classified on output as High, Medium, Low, Info, or something like that? > > Teasing out more detail about reported error

Re: [Wikitech-l]  Wikimedia production errors help

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 5:24 AM Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: > > In particular I count 13 frontend problems with the old TMH kaltura player. > There is clearly no intent to fix those (volunteer or employee), as the > Kaltura player has been unmaintained for 8 years. > The choices as far as I can tell

Re: [Wikitech-l]  Wikimedia production errors help

Hi! Thanks for the feedback, this is useful information. On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 3:00 AM Niklas Laxström wrote: > ma 14. syysk. 2020 klo 23.49 Tyler Cipriani (tcipri...@wikimedia.org) > kirjoitti: > If there is an increase in the amount of real new issues and/or > decrease i

[Wikitech-l]  Wikimedia production errors help

Hello all! Over the past few months we've reached the ignominious milestone of the most open tasks of all time on the wikimedia-production-error dashboard[0]. Background: The wikimedia-production-error dashboard is a workboard of tasks created while digging through the Wikimedia production error

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's GitHub org help

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 12:11 PM Isaac Johnson wrote: > Thanks Tyler for doing this work! Is there an easy way (if not, no big > deal) to also see the list of repos that were archived/deleted just to make > sure lack of response didn't mean something disappeared that would have > been useful to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's GitHub org help

_GitHub> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 4:46 PM Tyler Cipriani wrote: > > Hi all! > > If you've never created a repo or fork on the Wikimedia GitHub > organization you can skip this email. > > I know that some repos are developed on our GitHub org for reasons. > What is d

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia GitHub OAuth restrictions enabled

Hi! Today we have enabled OAuth app access restrictions on the Wikimedia GitHub organization[0]. As a result, any attempt to add an OAuth app requires the approval of the WIkimedia organization's owners[1]. This restriction was enabled to prevent accidentally granting OAuth permissions to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's GitHub org help

s-AddMetaAndTitle/blob/master/.gitreview> [1]: <https://github.com/thcipriani/wikimedia-github-projects> [2]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237470#6406876> > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 23:47, Tyler Cipriani > wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > If yo

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's GitHub org help

Hi all! If you've never created a repo or fork on the Wikimedia GitHub organization you can skip this email. I know that some repos are developed on our GitHub org for reasons. What is developed on our GitHub org? How many things are actively being developed on GitHub org? I have no idea :) I

[Wikitech-l] No train next week; no deployments next Tuesday

Hi all There is a planned switchover to our secondary datacenter scheduled for Tuesday, September 2nd 2020. To avoid creating problems for our SREs we'll be skipping the train for next week -- the week of 2020-08-31 -- and not doing any deployments the day of the switchover -- 2020-09-01. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] realtime notifications disabled in Phabricator

On 20-08-11 15:04:56, Daniel Zahn wrote: re: > "aphlict" service had been disabled on Phabricator because it caused stability issues. I am happy to announce that aphlict, the notification service for Phabricator using websockets, is now finally back again. \o/ This is great news! Thank you

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