Deployments

Notes:

• Ask for a little more time than what you think you'll need for deployment and testing; you never know what issues may come up and slow you down.
  • Generally, we have found one hour 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 are for pushing out simple and low-risk changes (as assessed by you, SWAT team, and the Release Manager). They happen at:
  • 06:00, 11:00 and 16:00 Pacific on Mondays and Thursdays
  • 06:00 and 16:00 Pacific on Tuesdays
  • 06:00, 10:00 and 16:00 Pacific on Wednesdays

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 projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, 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.

Long running tasks/scripts

While not strictly a deployment, performing long running (>1 hour) tasks (eg: migration scripts) can encounter issues when code is updated while a script is being run. For this reason it is required to add an entry in the calendar for the task with a window that accounts for the anticipated start time and estimated length for the task.

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.

Something went wrong‽ (see also Incident response)

• Is there a user-impacting or other severe issue?
  • Communicate this in the #wikimedia-operations ^connect IRC channel.
  • Add the #wikimedia-incident project to any relevant Phabricator task; if appropriate set to UBN! priority.
• What happens next?
  • In case of halting or reverting the weekly train

Near-term

NOTE: You can subscribe to the "WMF Deployments" google calendar by adding <wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com>. This does not always get one-off windows that are noted below. This wiki page is the canonical deployment schedule and any differences with the google calendar are to be interpreted as the calendar being wrong.

Week of February 19th

• Week of:
  • Monday is a WMF Holiday.

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Tuesday, February 20
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Hauskatze [config] 412606 (deploy commands) Lift IP restrictions for University of Edinburgh Edit-a-thon (task T187655) - Please deploy even if I am not around. Cannot be tested. Urbanecm [config] 412672 (deploy commands) New throttle rule, clean expired rules [config] 410475 (deploy commands) Add suppressredirect to autoconfirmed at zhwikt Jayprakash12345 [config] 412081 (deploy commands) Deploy Draft namespace on hiwikiversity (T187535) [config] 409557 (deploy commands) Update the sitename of newiki (T186952)
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / Citoid / ORES	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No deploys
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.21->1.31.0-wmf.22 group1 1.31.0-wmf.21 group2 1.31.0-wmf.21 group0 to 1.30.1-wmf.22 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T183961
Wednesday, February 21
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	mooeypoo Done [wmf.21] 412971 (deploy commands) Send thanks for the right link (task T187757) Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) [config] 412664 (deploy commands) Enable x-kill everywhere \o/ eddiegp [wmf.21] 413059 (deploy commands) site_stats: Unbreak counting newly created pages James_F [wmf.21] 411298 (deploy commands) Uploads: Fix cross-wiki upload code (task T187523) Jamesofur [config] 413062 (deploy commands) add abusefilter-private and abusefilter-private-log to checkusers
10:00–14:00 UTC # 02:00–06:00 PST	Compact Language Links: Dry run for preference migration script. (T187677)	Kartik Mistry (kart_)	Amir Aharoni (aharoni) Done (Dry) Run: mwscript extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector/maintenance/ULSCompactLinksDisablePref.php --wiki=enwiki Log and confirm the output.
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Urbanecm [config] 413147 (deploy commands) Add new throttle rule - Urbanecm won't be around (travelling), per IRC discussion <zeljkof> will deploy w/o him gilles [config] 412928 (deploy commands) Add Thumbor/Mediawiki shared secret (reverted because hhvm tricked us) raynor [config] 412996 (deploy commands) Disable Page Previews EventLogging instrumentation [config] 412983 (deploy commands) Removing Mobile beta feedback link _joe_ [config] 411296 (deploy commands) Enable EtcdConfig on the debug hosts Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
15:15–16:15 UTC # 07:15–08:15 PST	Thumbor private wiki support	gilles	gilles [config] 413168 (deploy commands) Add Thumbor/Mediawiki shared secret [config] 412952 (deploy commands) Serve officewiki thumbnails with Thumbor [config] 413115 (deploy commands) Serve private wiki thumbnails with Thumbor
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	razesoldier [config] 412439 (deploy commands) Set Topic namespace alias of zhwiki Zoranzoki21 [config] 412947 (deploy commands) Added throttle rule for Wikipedia Women in Red editathon Jon Harald Søby (Jhs) [config] 412676 (deploy commands) Add namespace localization for sdwiki [config] 413166 (deploy commands) Add sitename for Burmese Wiktionary Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No deploys
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.22 group1 1.31.0-wmf.21->1.31.0-wmf.22 group2 1.31.0-wmf.21 group1 to 1.31.0-wmf.22 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T183961
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Parsoid / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
Thursday, February 22
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Gergő (tgr) [config] 409638 (deploy commands) Enable loginOnly mode for local auth provider on beta Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
01:00–02:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PST	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Matthias (matthiasmullie) [config] 410433 (deploy commands) Load 3D extension on other wikis, for display only Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / Citoid / ORES	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.22 group1 1.31.0-wmf.22 group2 1.31.0-wmf.21->1.31.0-wmf.22 group2 to 1.31.0-wmf.22 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T183961
Friday, February 23
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Week of February 26th

• Week of:
  • nothing yet

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, February 26
11:00–11:30 UTC # 03:00–03:30 PST	Wikimedia Portals Update	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–18:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PST	Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy	Guillaume (gehel)
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Parsoid / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
22:00–00:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PST	Weekly Security deployment window	Brian (bawolff), Sam (Reedy)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
Tuesday, February 27
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Mon) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / Citoid / ORES	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No deploys
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.22 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22 group0 to 1.30.1-wmf.23 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T183962
Wednesday, February 28
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No deploys
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22 group1 to 1.31.0-wmf.23 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T183962
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Parsoid / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
Thursday, March 01
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
01:00–02:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PST	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / Citoid / ORES	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 to 1.31.0-wmf.23 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T183962
Friday, March 02
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

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