-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help test MediaWiki 1.19 now - deployments may start in February Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:26:43 +0000 From: Thehelpfulone <[email protected]> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>
On 26 January 2012 16:59, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]>wrote: > The developers of MediaWiki, the software Wikimedia sites run on, are > wrapping up work on a new version, with hundreds of improvements and > bugfixes. Description: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19 > > There is a draft schedule for deploying this software to all Wikimedia > sites in February and March. The schedule is tentative and dates are > going to shift and change. (See the "SCHEDULING" note below in this > email.) > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap > > We want to do a lot of testing BEFORE the rollout, so that we catch > potential problems before they affect readers and editors. Please help > us! We have set up replicas of your wikis and installed the latest > MediaWiki code on those replicas, so you can spot new problems in the > software's behavior: > > http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org > > Please look at > http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix and find > wikis to test. Try reading, editing, and so on as you normally would; > treat it as a giant sandbox. If you find a problem, please report it > here: http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Problem_reports > > We are especially interested in finding out about problems that affect > unique JavaScript user scripts or Gadgets, so we can help you fix them. > > SCHEDULING: Now is also a good time to let us know if there are going to > be big news days or weeks in February where your community would be > especially unhappy if you had a window with no access or no editability. > For example, if there's an important national election happening in one > of the countries you serve, we'd ideally like to avoid taking your site > down for maintenance on that day. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap would be a > good place to tell us that. > > If you have questions, please feel free to contact us in > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC or via the Wikimedia > developers' mailing list at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l . > > Thank you. > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Volunteer Development Coordinator > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > If you need any user rights (admin, crat..) for your testing, please feel free to request on http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Global_Requests#Permissions - I can provide rights as needed (as can the other users on http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/steward although they might be a bit more busy with testing), so feel free to ping me on IRC (Thehelpfulone), email me or leave a message on my enwiki/metawiki talk page if nobody has replied to your request. Thanks. -- Thehelpfulone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone English Wikipedia Administrator _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
