Deployments

Deployments
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This page tracks upcoming deployments of software to the Wikimedia Foundation servers.

• Cadence: MediaWiki follows a weekly deploy cadence known as the Deployment Train, except for backports. For other services, teams decide their own schedule.
• Schedule: Generally use Backport windows instead of scheduling new windows. But, long running tasks and others things covered by Inclusion criteria do require their own windows. When creating windows, schedule more time than you think you need, to account for issues that might slow you down. One hour is best for most things.
• Times are pinned to San Francisco, and thus the UTC time changes in March and November due to the DST.
• To add or remove your name from the list, or to schedule a new recurring deploy window, send a patchset to mediawiki/tools/release's deployments-calendar.json file. Add thcipriani as a reviewer.
• If you need help, contact Release Engineering on IRC at #wikimedia-releng ^connect; and ping Greg (greg-g) or Tyler (thcipriani).
• Communicating: Deployments of new or major features should be announced on the Wikimedia blog, Tech News, and/or global MassMessage to relevant communities. Changes that are likely to affect cache behaviour, add new cookies, or utilize new database tables, should be announced on the ops mailing list first.
• Something went wrong? See Incident response. Is there a user-impacting problem? Communicate in the #wikimedia-operations ^connect IRC channel. If there is a Phabricator task, ensure #Wikimedia-Incident is tagged, and consider setting the Unbreak Now priority.
• For information about the current status of the versions deployed to the various wikis, see https://versions.toolforge.org/
• The deployment commands helper can assist with which commands to run, including how to revert your changeː https://deploy-commands.toolforge.org/

Week of January 17

Sunday, January 16

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Monday, January 17

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Tuesday, January 18

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Kosta Harlan (kostajh) [wmf.17] 754129 (deploy commands) Post-edit dialog: Reload page upon dialog closing for structured tasks [wmf.17] 754605 (deploy commands) Monitoring: Add '.Save' to distinguish from '.Click' events [wmf.18] 754906 (deploy commands) Monitoring: Add '.Save' to distinguish from '.Click' events Subbu (subbu[m]) [wmf.17] 754145 (deploy commands) Disable "inline-media-caption" category [wmf.17] 754144 (deploy commands) Drop 'inline-media-caption' lint requests 4nn1l2 (nn1l2) [config] 753969 (deploy commands) fawiki: Add flow-delete right to eliminators [config] 754612 (deploy commands) commonswiki: Add peerj.com to wgCopyUploadsDomains whitelist [config] 754613 (deploy commands) azwiki: Add draft namespace Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

16:00–17:00 UTC #
08:00–09:00 PST

CI server restart
Deployer	Papaul (papaul), Antoine (hashar)
Changes	CI server maintenance. Zuul and Jenkins will be unavailable task T283582 wikitech-l announce

17:00–18:00 UTC #
09:00–10:00 PST

Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

18:00–19:00 UTC #
10:00–11:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

Pre MediaWiki train break
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Jeena (jeena), Mukunda (twentyafterfour)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.17->1.38.0-wmf.18 group1 1.38.0-wmf.17 group2 1.38.0-wmf.17 group0 to 1.38.0-wmf.18 Blockers: task T293959

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	SCardenasM (SCardenasM) 754054 (deploy commands) Change The Wikipedia Library extension edit count minimum to 10,000 Essex Igyan (eigyan) 753543 (deploy commands) Deploy the cawiki test safety survey to production. 4nn1l2 (nn1l2) [config] 755018 (deploy commands) fawiki: Exempt userspaces from being indexed by search engines [config] 755026 (deploy commands) azwiki: Change alias Q to QA for the draft namespace [config] 754914 (deploy commands) Revert "commonswiki: Add peerj.com to wgCopyUploadsDomains whitelist Zabe (zabe) [config] 752308 (deploy commands) Use namespaced CentralAuthUser [wmf.18] 754917 (deploy commands) Don't use array keys for OOUI [wmf.18] 754918 (deploy commands) Don't use array keys for OOUI in AbuseFilterViewDiff Bartosz (MatmaRex) [wmf.17] 754915 (deploy commands) [DiscussionTools] Enable wikis to customize the syntax used for replies [wmf.17] 754916 (deploy commands) [DiscussionTools] Ensure the marker appears in a reasonable place when replying with a bullet [config] 753192 (deploy commands) DiscussionTools: Use bullet indentation on ruwiki Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Wednesday, January 19

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Cormac Parle (cormacparle) [wmf.17] 753487 (deploy commands) Revert "Undo update to the way the search interface is set" (note that a maint script needs to be run with this backport) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

Train log triage with CPT
Deployer	Jeena (jeena), Mukunda (twentyafterfour) + CPT
Changes	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Jeena (jeena), Mukunda (twentyafterfour)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.18 group1 1.38.0-wmf.17->1.38.0-wmf.18 group2 1.38.0-wmf.17 group1 to 1.38.0-wmf.18 Blockers: task T293959

21:00–22:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

01:00–02:00 UTC #
(Wed) 17:00–18:00 PST

Phabricator update
Deployer	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)
Changes	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org

Thursday, January 20

11:00–12:00 UTC #
03:00–04:00 PST

Services – Citoid / Zotero
Deployer	Marielle (mvolz)
Changes	See Citoid

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

UTC morning backport and config training Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Ariel (apergos)
Changes	Training to do backport and config deployment. To sign up for deployment training use the Deployment Training Request phabricator milestone Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

17:00–18:00 UTC #
09:00–10:00 PST

Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

18:00–19:00 UTC #
10:00–11:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Jeena (jeena), Mukunda (twentyafterfour)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.18 group1 1.38.0-wmf.18 group2 1.38.0-wmf.17->1.38.0-wmf.18 group2 to 1.38.0-wmf.18 Blockers: task T293959

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST

UTC late backport and config training Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Brennen (brennen)
Changes	Training to do backport and config deployment. To sign up for deployment training use the Deployment Training Request phabricator milestone Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Friday, January 21

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Saturday, January 22

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Week of January 24

Sunday, January 23

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Monday, January 24

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Amir E. Aharoni (User:Amire80) (aharoni) 749889 (deploy commands) Remove kea, nod, and sms from wmgExtraLanguageNames Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

16:30–17:00 UTC #
08:30–09:00 PST

Wikimedia Portals Update
Deployer	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)
Changes	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/

18:00–18:30 UTC #
10:00–10:30 PST

Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy
Deployer	Ryan (ryankemper)
Changes	...

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

21:00–22:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

22:00–00:00 UTC #
14:00–16:00 PST

Weekly Security deployment window
Deployer	Sam (Reedy), Scott (sbassett)
Changes	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Mon) 16:00–17:00 PST

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

02:00–03:00 UTC #
(Mon) 18:00–19:00 PST

Automatic branching of MediaWiki, extensions, skins, and vendor – see Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys
Deployer	N/A
Changes	Branch wmf/1.38.0-wmf.19

Tuesday, January 25

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

17:00–18:00 UTC #
09:00–10:00 PST

Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

18:00–19:00 UTC #
10:00–11:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

Pre MediaWiki train break
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Brennen (brennen), Jeena (jeena)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.18->1.38.0-wmf.19 group1 1.38.0-wmf.18 group2 1.38.0-wmf.18 group0 to 1.38.0-wmf.19 Blockers: task T293960

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Wednesday, January 26

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

Train log triage with CPT
Deployer	Brennen (brennen), Jeena (jeena) + CPT
Changes	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Brennen (brennen), Jeena (jeena)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.19 group1 1.38.0-wmf.18->1.38.0-wmf.19 group2 1.38.0-wmf.18 group1 to 1.38.0-wmf.19 Blockers: task T293960

21:00–22:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

01:00–02:00 UTC #
(Wed) 17:00–18:00 PST

Phabricator update
Deployer	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)
Changes	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org

Thursday, January 27

11:00–12:00 UTC #
03:00–04:00 PST

Services – Citoid / Zotero
Deployer	Marielle (mvolz)
Changes	See Citoid

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

UTC morning backport and config training Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Ariel (apergos)
Changes	Training to do backport and config deployment. To sign up for deployment training use the Deployment Training Request phabricator milestone Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

17:00–18:00 UTC #
09:00–10:00 PST

Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

18:00–19:00 UTC #
10:00–11:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Brennen (brennen), Jeena (jeena)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.19 group1 1.38.0-wmf.19 group2 1.38.0-wmf.18->1.38.0-wmf.19 group2 to 1.38.0-wmf.19 Blockers: task T293960

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST

UTC late backport and config training Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Brennen (brennen)
Changes	Training to do backport and config deployment. To sign up for deployment training use the Deployment Training Request phabricator milestone Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Friday, January 28

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Saturday, January 29

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys