Is there still the same week gap between version deployments to catch bugs?
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Greg Grossmeier <g...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Starting the week of June 8th we'll be transitioning our MediaWiki +
> Extensions deployment cadence to a shorter/simpler one. This will begin
> with 1.26wmf9.
>
> New cadence:
> Tuesday: New branch cut, deployed to test wikis
> Wednesday: deployed to non-wikipedias
> Thursday: deployed to Wikipedias
>
> This is not only a lot simpler to understand ("wait, we deploy twice on
> Wednesday?") but it also shortens the time to get code to everyone (2 or
> 3 days from branch cut, depending on how you count).
>
> == Transition ==
> Transitions from one cadence to another are hard. Here's how we'll be
> doing this transition:
>
> Week of June 1st (next week):
> * We'll complete the wmf8 rollout on June 3rd
> * However, we won't be cutting wmf9 on June 3rd
>
> Week of June 8th (in two weeks):
> * We'll begin the new cadence with wmf9 on Tuesday June 9th
>
>
> I hope this helps our users and developers get great new features and
> fixes faster.
>
> Greg
>
> endnotes:
> * The task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97553
> * I'll be updating the relevant documentation before the transition
>
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