Rob said > --Hi everyone, > > Just repeating something I just posted to > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/planned-1-17-deployment/ > > 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). > > If all goes well, you should only notice the improvement. If it doesn’t go > well, that’s because there’s something we missed, and that’s where we’d 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/. If > you find issues, please report them in Bugzilla: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla > > There are many, many little fixes and improvements that have gone into 1.17 > (see the draft release notes[2] for an exhaustive list) . There isn’t much > that’s visible to users of the site, but one under the hood improvement that > should result in some speed improvements: Resource Loader[3]. Resource > Loader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up delivery of > JavaScript by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount of > unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first place. > Much of the work in this development cycle has been centered on ensuring > compatibility with the new system. Since it makes such a large shift in the > way that JavaScript is delivered to the browser, it’s also an operational > aspect we’ll be keeping a close eye on, as load shifts between servers in > our infrastructure. > > Note that this isn’t a release for download, yet. On and after February 8, > the “latest” version of MediaWiki will still be 1.16 as listed on > mediawiki.org. We plan to update this to 1.17 sometime after the deployment > of the 1.17 branch, after we’ve had time to run it in production for a while > and fix the issues we’re likely to find. > > So please, help us test this release, and if you find bugs, please report > them in Bugzilla. Thanks! > > Rob > > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.17 > [2] > http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_17/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES?view=co > [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader > [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download > >
Is there any plan to deal with all the JS in mediawiki:Common.js that RL is probably going to break? Admins at wikimedia sites (other then enwikipedia) tend not to really know what they're doing in terms of customizing JS, thus there is a lot of really sketchy js in mediawiki:Common.js that gets copied from site to site and messed around with until it works. Several of the smaller wikis already have broken JS. I imagine that many more will break with the RL, and local admins probably won't know whats wrong/how to deal with it. Cheers, -bawolff p.s. Can I get three cheers for 1.17 :D _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
