Deployments

Some notes about the deployment windows

• It is good to ask for a little more time than what you think you'll need to do all of the deployment and testing; you never know what issues will come up and slow you down.
  • Generally, we have found one hour windows to be a good size for most things.
• Deployment windows are 'pinned' to the time in San Francisco and thus the UTC time will change due to the United States observance of Daylight Savings Time as appropriate.
• SWAT deploys happen twice daily (8am and 4pm Pacific) and are for pushing out simple, quick, and low risk changes (as assessed by you, members of the SWAT team, and the Release Manager).

For detailed instructions on how to actually deploy code to the Wikimedia servers, see How to deploy code.

This page tracks planned deployments of software to the Wikimedia Foundation servers that host the various Wikimedia project wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, Wikiversities, Wikimedia Commons, etc.).

Cadence

The Wikimedia Foundation currently follows a one-week deploy cadence. This means that there is one week between updates to any one Wikimedia project site wiki (excluding urgent fixes, of course).

Scheduling

To schedule a deploy window, or if you see a potential conflict with your upcoming deployment, please e-mail Greg Grossmeier.

Inclusion criteria

See the list at Inclusion criteria for the kinds of changes that require scheduling here.

Communicating

• Every major or new feature deployment should be announced on the Wikimedia blog and/or Tech News (use the "user-notice" tag on Phabricator) and/or global on-wiki delivery. For routine and maintenance deployments, listing your change here is enough.
• Changes that are liable to affect site performance or infrastructure should be announced on the ops mailing list. This includes anything that alters caching behavior, introduces cookies, substantially increases the static asset payload, or adds new and complicated query patterns.

Near-term

Week of May 2nd

• Week of:
  • nothing yet

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, May 02
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani) or Mark (marktraceur)	Bartosz (MatmaRex) [config] 285700 (deploy commands) Set $wgRateLimits['upload'] for Commons Alex (Krenair) [config] 283689 (deploy commands) Add nlwiki to deployment-prep [config] 217858 (deploy commands) Remove 'https -> http' rewrite for IRC notifications Urbanecm [config] 286285 (deploy commands) Add interface editor user group on pswiki [config] 286286 (deploy commands) Enable user signature in VE in plwiki [config] 286287 (deploy commands) Enable Visual Editor on all namespaces of plwiki Marko (mobrovac) [wmf.22] 286412 (deploy commands) [extensions/Math] Use the cached version of checkTex to improve performance aude [wmf.22] 286434 (deploy commands) [extensions/Wikidata] Fix for broken rdf dumps Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–17:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PDT	Weekly Wikidata query service deployment window	Guillaume (gehel)
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND) and Michael ({{ircni ck|mdholloway}})	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Dzahn (mutante) [config] 286258 (deploy commands) Initial configuration for jam.wikipedia matt_flaschen [Flow] [1.27.0-wmf.22] 286527 (deploy commands) Fix topic creation on mobile Roan (RoanKattouw) [Echo] [wmf.22] 286535 (deploy commands) Backport new footer notice code [Echo] [wmf.22] 286532 (deploy commands) Fix close icon alignment in Echo footer notice [config] 286534 (deploy commands) Enable cross-wiki beta feature invitation (only do this after the new footer notice backport has happened and has been confirmed to work) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Tuesday, May 03
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Mark (marktraceur) or Alex (Krenair)	Sébastien (Dereckson) [config] 286638 (deploy commands) Enable NewUserMessage on gu.wikiquote (task T134253) Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak) 286640 (deploy commands) Bumping portals to master. (note: please run 'sync-portals' script at root of repo after deploy) aude 286651 (deploy commands) Remove use of $wmgWikibaseEnableArbitraryAccess 286652 (deploy commands) Remove arbitrary access config from InitialiseSettings.php 286653 (deploy commands) Remove arbitraryaccess wikitag from CommonSettings.php 286654 (deploy commands) Remove arbitraryaccess.dblist 286661 (deploy commands) Disable Wikibase on beta.wikiversity 286662 (deploy commands) Enable data access on Wikiversity
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Alex (Krenair) 286278 (deploy commands) Add jam.wikipedia to RESTBase and Labs dnsrecursor 283227 (deploy commands) deployment-prep: keyholder shinken monitoring [dns] 285085 (deploy commands) Set up yue.wikipedia.org DNS record 285086 (deploy commands) Redirect yue.wikipedia.org to zh-yue.wikipedia.org for now Antoine Musso (hashar) 286484 (deploy commands) admin: contint-admins no more need postgres 286642 (deploy commands) admin: gitconfig tweak for hashar 286598 (deploy commands) contint: pypy package for pywikibot 282323 (deploy commands) contint: move npmtravis out of prod slave 282322 (deploy commands) contint: clean up role::ci::slave Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change Corey Floyd (coreyfloyd)
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / OCG / Citoid	Yuri (yurik), Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Antoine Musso (hashar)	1.27 schedule group0 1.27.0-wmf.22->1.27.0-wmf.23 group1 1.27.0-wmf.22 group2 1.27.0-wmf.22 group0 to 1.27.0-wmf.23 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T131557
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	yurik 284091 (deploy commands) - re-enable sparql query graph access 286474 (deploy commands) - trying to fix all interactive graphs - 286774 (deploy commands) and 286775 (deploy commands) Erik B (ebernhardson) [config] 286485 (deploy commands) - only use pooled curl in hhvm Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Wednesday, May 04
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Mark (marktraceur) or Alex (Krenair)	Niklas (Nikerabbit) [config] 286632 (deploy commands) Translate: Use Apertium via cxserver Thiemo (Thiemo_WMDE) [wmf23] 286855 (deploy commands) Fix HTMLFormField calling Message::setContext with null Sébastien (Dereckson) [config] 286812 (deploy commands), 286875 (deploy commands) Remove redundant NS_PROJECT entries from wgNamespacesAliases (task T131023) [config] 286807 (deploy commands) Shakespeare in London throttle rule (task T134353) [config] 286811 (deploy commands) Namespace configuration for gl.wikisource (task T134041) [config] 286877 (deploy commands) Enable NewUserMessage for SUL accounts too on gu.wikiquote (task T134253) [wmf23] 286820 (deploy commands) Localize namespaces Page and Index in Galician (task T134364) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	UploadsLink deployment	legoktm, rillke	*286494 (deploy commands) - Add UploadsLink to production extension-list 286517 (deploy commands) - Enable UploadsLink at Wikimedia Commons
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Antoine Musso (hashar)	1.27 schedule group0 1.27.0-wmf.23 group1 1.27.0-wmf.22->1.27.0-wmf.23 group2 1.27.0-wmf.22 group1 to 1.27.0-wmf.23 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T131557
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND) and Michael (mdholloway)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Roan (RoanKattouw) [config] 286105 (deploy commands) (depends on hewiki being on wmf23) James_F [wmf.23] 286876 (deploy commands) [Cite] ve.dm.MWReferenceNode: Override static cloneElement instead of getter [wmf.23] 287017 (deploy commands) [VisualEditor] Fix copy/pasting inserting of wikitext references Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Thursday, May 05
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PDT	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
14:00–15:00 UTC # 07:00–08:00 PDT	Labs DNS maintenance	Andrew Bogott (andrewbogott)	Labs DNS Database shell game https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128737
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Mark (marktraceur), or Katie (aude)	Luke081515 Done [config] 287090 (deploy commands) Grant groups from flaggedrevs the patrol rights at test2wiki Done [config] 286522 (deploy commands) Commons: Restrict changetags userright Brad (anomie) Done [wmf23] 287079 (deploy commands) Use master CentralAuthUser instances when writing Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Alex (Krenair) Done 286476 (deploy commands) restbase: Add beta nlwiki 283227 (deploy commands) deployment-prep: keyholder shinken monitoring 286226 (deploy commands) Move puppet repository cherrypick counter to diamond collector Eric E. (urandom) Done 286865 (deploy commands) Deploy new cassandra-metrics-collector jars Bernd (bearND) (reverted) 286695 (deploy commands) Deploy mobileapps using scap3 Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / OCG / Citoid	Yuri (yurik), Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Chad Horohoe (ostriches)	1.27 schedule group0 1.27.0-wmf.23 group1 1.27.0-wmf.23 group2 1.27.0-wmf.22->1.27.0-wmf.23 group2 to 1.27.0-wmf.23 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T131557
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), Adam (awight), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Week of May 9th

• Week of:
  • nothing yet

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, May 09
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani) or Mark (marktraceur)	yurik 287299 (deploy commands) - graph ext settings cleanup Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–17:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PDT	Weekly Wikidata query service deployment window	Guillaume (gehel)
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND) and Michael (mdholloway)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Tuesday, May 10
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Mark (marktraceur) or Alex (Krenair)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Alex (Krenair) 283227 (deploy commands) deployment-prep: keyholder shinken monitoring 286226 (deploy commands) Move puppet repository cherrypick counter to diamond collector 274788 (deploy commands) Revert "Revert "phabricator: Send weekly mail every week instead of on certain monthdays"" Bernd (bearND) 287112 (deploy commands) Deploy mobileapps using scap3, 2nd try Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / OCG / Citoid	Yuri (yurik), Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Antoine Musso (hashar)	1.28 schedule group0 1.27.0-wmf.23->1.28.0-wmf.1 group1 1.27.0-wmf.23 group2 1.27.0-wmf.23 group0 to 1.28.0-wmf.1 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T134249
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Wednesday, May 11
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Mark (marktraceur) or Alex (Krenair)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Antoine Musso (hashar)	1.28 schedule group0 1.28.0-wmf.1 group1 1.27.0-wmf.23->1.28.0-wmf.1 group2 1.27.0-wmf.23 group1 to 1.28.0-wmf.1 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T134249
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND) and Michael (mdholloway)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Thursday, May 12
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Mark (marktraceur), or Katie (aude)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / OCG / Citoid	Yuri (yurik), Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Chad Horohoe (ostriches)	1.28 schedule group0 1.28.0-wmf.1 group1 1.28.0-wmf.1 group2 1.27.0-wmf.23->1.28.0-wmf.1 group2 to 1.28.0-wmf.1 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T134249
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), Adam (awight), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Upcoming

FY 201516-Q4 (April - June 2016)

• May 11: rollout of ArticlePlaceholder on first small Wikipedias - phabricator:T117965
• May 12: enable cross-wiki notifications by default - phabricator:T130655

Long term callouts

Not scheduled yet

• Re-enable VisualEditor by default for all logged-out users of the English Wikipedia - phab:T90663
• Scrap VisualEditor providing its own edit tab, instead provide only one with switching, and memory of which editor the user used last – phab:T102398

Deployment trains

• mw:MediaWiki 1.27/Roadmap
• mw:Wikidata deployment

Recently completed

For older deployments, please see the /Archive.