On 21 August 2013 13:56, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> After assessing the current readiness (or lack thereof) of our HTTPS
> code, we've decided to postpone the deployment for a week.  We have a
> number of things that we'd like to get cleaner resolution on:
>
> *  Use of GeoIP vs enabling on per wiki basis
> *  Use of a preference vs login form checkbox vs hidden option vs
> sensible default
> *  How interactions with login.wikimedia.org will work
> *  Validation of our HTTPS test methodology
>
> The new plan is to deploy on Wednesday, August 28 between 20:00 UTC
> and 23:00 UTC.  Prior to that, we plan on having a very limited
> deployment to our test wikis, and we're also planning to deploy to
> mediawiki.org.  Assuming this is sorted out and we have made our test
> deployments by end of day Monday, August 26, we should have time to
> validate our assumptions and give people time to see the new system in
> action.
>
> More info is (or will be) available here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
> (or here if you prefer: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS )
>
> Thanks everyone for your patience.
>
> Rob
>
>
Thanks for keeping everyone updated, Rob - and thanks to those who have
been working on this.

Risker
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