On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:41 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. :-) No problem! One thing I forgot to mention (this goes for everyone) Please spread the word! There are no doubt going to be people who are caught off guard by this no matter where we post this, (possibly) short of CentralNotice. > > 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. We lost the game of rock/paper/scissors. :) We decided to do this very late U.S. west coast time so that our European and Australian contingents would be well rested in case there are problems. Given that we have key personnel pretty much all over the globe, there wasn't going to be a great time for this, and this has the added advantage of being a relatively low traffic time for us. > > 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? > Yeah it has. I don't recall the exact history of how we got to this point. I imagine that the two should become one in the future. Thanks again for the post. I really do appreciate it. > No problem! Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
