Rob Lanphier wrote: > Just repeating something I just posted to > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/planned-1-17-deployment/
Thank you for posting here. I'm not sure about others, but I rarely visit techblog.wikimedia.org. It's great news. :-) > The engineering team is busy working on the deployment of the 1.17 branch of > MediaWiki[1]. We plan to roll this out next week to all languages and > projects, Tuesday, February 8, with work starting at 07:00 UTC (which is > 11pm on Monday, February 7 for San Francisco). Can you explain why you're rolling out when it's the middle of the night where Wikimedia is headquartered? I have a few different theories (site traffic, time zones of the operations team, etc.), but a clarification here would be good. > If all goes well, you should only notice the improvement. If it doesn¹t go > well, that¹s because there¹s something we missed, and that¹s where we¹d love > your help. Please help us test this release! We have a test instance of the > software we plan to deploy available at http://prototype.wikimedia.org/. Why is prototype.wikimedia.org being used instead of test.wikipedia.org? I was under the impression that the purpose of test.wikipedia.org was a pre-deployment launch pad while prototype.wikimedia.org is used for testing new extensions/features. Has this changed? Thanks again for the post. I really do appreciate it. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
