tl;dr: Check out SpiderPig[0], a web frontend for deploying code changes to Wikimedia’s MediaWiki.
— What is SpiderPig? SpiderPig is a web app that deploys code to Wikimedia’s production MediaWikis. — How do I use it? Today, anyone who has deployed a backport in the past year[1] can log in at https://spiderpig.wikimedia.org. Follow instructions on Wikitech to learn how to use SpiderPig[2] or request access[3]. Join Release Engineering for a deployment party 🥳 to try out SpiderPig: *Mon, 12 May 2025* – *Thu, 15 May 2025* members of Release Engineering will be in the #wikimedia-operations IRC channel for daily backport windows to share the joy of SpiderPig: - UTC afternoon backport window (13:00 UTC) - UTC late backport window (20:00 UTC) More details on the deployment calendar.[4] — Why? During backport windows[5], deployers traditionally use our `scap backport` command-line tool to ship code. Meanwhile, developers wait on standby to check the code. For many deployments, deployers punch in commands and relay information to developers. SpiderPig eliminates the need to punch in commands for simple changes, freeing deployers to focus on complex changes. SpiderPig is like showing up for a backport window to get a change deployed: Enter a Gerrit change number in the search and click “Start backport.” When prompted, check it on the staging servers[6]. Confirm that the change looks good on staging to make it live everywhere! — Thanks to: - Alexandros Kosiaris for his partnership in getting SpiderPig into production. - Lauralyn Watson, Eric Gardner, and other folks working on Codex for their help integrating Codex and Vue. - Simon Lyngshede and Moritz Mühlenhoff for their help integrating with our single sign-on system. - Ahmon Dancy for leading this project and the Release Engineering team for all their work to make deployments better. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scap/SpiderPig> [1]: <https://ldap.toolforge.org/group/spiderpig-access> [2]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scap/SpiderPig#Log_in_to_SpiderPig> [3]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scap/SpiderPig#Access_to_SpiderPig> [4]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments> [5]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backport_windows> [6]: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikimediaDebug> _______________________________________________ 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/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
