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 thrice daily (06:00, 11:00 and 16:00 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.

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 July 31st

• Week of:
  • task T166204: Add PK on s1

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, July 31
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Guillaume Lederrey (gehel) / Deb Tankersley (debt) Enable <mapframe> for 3 wikis that have community consensus (task T171805 / 368172 (deploy commands)) addshore [config] 368701 (deploy commands) Remove WMDE log channel [config] 341127 (deploy commands) Remove Wikibase vs Interwikisorting checks [config] 363206 (deploy commands) Remove wgRevisionSliderAlternateSlider [config] 363207 (deploy commands) Remove wm?gRevisionSliderBetaFeature Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) [config] 367393 (deploy commands) Turn on reading from the term_full_entity_id in testwikidata [config] 366866 (deploy commands) Add P279 to $wgPropertySuggesterClassifyingPropertyIds Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–17:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PDT	Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy	Guillaume (gehel)	Deploy new GUI & Updater
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	bd808 368596 (deploy commands) OpenStackManager: Do not clobber $out in local scope (T172077) SMalyshev [config] 368819 (deploy commands) Enable archive search via Elastic everywhere Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
21:00–23:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PDT	Weekly Security deployment window	Darian (dapatrick), Brian (bawolff), Sam (Reedy)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Smalyshev [config] 366488 (deploy commands) Cleanup old BC config for JsonUnitStorage MarcoAurelio (TabbyCat) [config] Convert pt.wikimedia to a fishbowl wiki (task T171501) [config] Add path for en.wikiquote logo (task T171810) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Tuesday, August 01
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	James_F [config] 366867 (deploy commands) Enable OOjs UI EditPage on all wikis except Commons 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_)	twentyafterfour 364148 (deploy commands) deployment-prep: enable reusable TC on HHVM Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) 366887 (deploy commands) mediawiki: increase the batch size of dispatchChanges cronjob 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 / ORES	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.30 schedule group0 1.30.0-wmf.11->1.30.0-wmf.12 group1 1.30.0-wmf.11 group2 1.30.0-wmf.11 group0 to 1.30.0-wmf.12 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T168053
22:00–00:00 UTC # 15:00–17:00 PDT	Kartographer deploy	MaxSem	MaxSem [config] 369434 (deploy commands) Enable mapframe on several wikis
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Sagan [config] 369449 (deploy commands) Rename Wikinews namespace to Wikinieuws on nl.wikinews [config] 369414 (deploy commands) Assign autopatrol to all holders of autoreview on arwiki [config] 368244 (deploy commands) Make wikiquote.png equivalent to enwikiquote.png [config] 368423 (deploy commands) Optimalize all PNGs in this repo Jdlrobson [config] 369464 (deploy commands) Update wordmark for Wikipedia Atikamekw [config] 368444 (deploy commands) Add new mobile watermark for Urdu Wikipedia [config] 369494 (deploy commands) Disable page previews on a variety of pages RoanKattouw [wmf.12] 369570 (deploy commands) Disable sticky preference until we figure out what to do with it
Wednesday, August 02
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) [config] 369567 (deploy commands) Write to term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table in prod too aude [wmf12] 369429 (deploy commands) Fix Wikibase constraint type checks Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Petr Pchelko (Pchelolo) [config] 368258 (deploy commands) Enable job events in group0 wikis RoanKattouw [wmf.12] 369574 (deploy commands) Fix cleanup of experimental var Smalyshev [wmf.12] 369696 (deploy commands) Fix Special:Undelete search - use variable and not request param MaxSem [config] 369701 (deploy commands) Enable HTML5 sections in betalabs Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.30 schedule group0 1.30.0-wmf.12 group1 1.30.0-wmf.11->1.30.0-wmf.12 group2 1.30.0-wmf.11 group1 to 1.30.0-wmf.12 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T168053
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Erik B (ebernhardson) [wmf.12] 369644 (deploy commands) T150032: Record interleaved search teams in satisfaction schema when provided by backend [wmf.12] 369702 (deploy commands) Update text/url for survey privacy statement (requires scap for i18n) [wmf.12] 369804 (deploy commands) Fix spelling error from 369702 kaldari [config] 369720 (deploy commands) T172305: Create an RTL database list Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) [config] 369707 (deploy commands) Add copyright info for Wikidata API Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Thursday, August 03
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PDT	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
14:00–16:00 UTC # 07:00–09:00 PDT	Create-a-wiki!	reedy	task T155038 Create wikimania2018wiki
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Marko (mobrovac) 369446 (deploy commands) RESTBase: Add the Recommendation API URI 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 / ORES	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.30 schedule group0 1.30.0-wmf.12 group1 1.30.0-wmf.12 group2 1.30.0-wmf.11->1.30.0-wmf.12 group2 to 1.30.0-wmf.12 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T168053
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	RoanKattouw [config] 368330 (deploy commands) Remove temporary setting for RCFilters experimental features (must wait until wmf.12 is on all wikis) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Week of August 7th

• Week of:
  • nothing yet...

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, August 07
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
17:00–17:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PDT	Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy	Guillaume (gehel)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
21:00–23:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PDT	Weekly Security deployment window	Darian (dapatrick), Brian (bawolff), Sam (Reedy)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
Tuesday, August 08
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
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 / ORES	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.30 schedule group0 1.30.0-wmf.12->1.30.0-wmf.13 group1 1.30.0-wmf.12 group2 1.30.0-wmf.12 group0 to 1.30.0-wmf.13 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T170631
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
Wednesday, August 09
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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 # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.30 schedule group0 1.30.0-wmf.13 group1 1.30.0-wmf.12->1.30.0-wmf.13 group2 1.30.0-wmf.12 group1 to 1.30.0-wmf.13 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T170631
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
Thursday, August 10
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PDT	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
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 / ORES	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	1.30 schedule group0 1.30.0-wmf.13 group1 1.30.0-wmf.13 group2 1.30.0-wmf.12->1.30.0-wmf.13 group2 to 1.30.0-wmf.13 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T170631
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Chad (RainbowSprinkles), 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

Longer term

• Early August: evaluate if we're fine to revert 362403 (deploy commands) / temporary Thanks limitation to prevent flood on pl.wikipedia

Past deployments

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