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 9th

• Week of:
  • Nikerabbit: Running Translate/scripts/refresh-translatable-pages.php on Thursday between 0500-0900 UTC (task T48716)

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 (not done) Sébastien (Dereckson) [config] 287635 (deploy commands) Add National Digital Library of Brazil domains to wgCopyUploadsDomains (task T134584) [config] 287636 (deploy commands) Add museudaimigracao.org.br to wgCopyUploadsDomains (task T134566) 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)	yurik 287299 (deploy commands) - graph ext settings cleanup (noop) jdlrobson - note availability 4-4.30pm 287681 (deploy commands) - config change bewiki 286505 (deploy commands) - config change for User:Brion VIBBER Roan (RoanKattouw) [config] 287730 (deploy commands) Enable Flow beta feature on nowiki 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)	Alex (Krenair) 287797 (deploy commands) Cleanup IRC switchover from argon to kraz Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak) 287945 (deploy commands) bumping portals to master (note: please run the sync-portals script at the root of the repo after deploy) Bartosz (MatmaRex) [config] 287948 (deploy commands) Remove misleading comment in UploadWizard configuration [config] 287939 (deploy commands) Simplify $wgApiFrameOptions configuration Glaisher 286927 (deploy commands) Configure $wgCheckUserCAMultiLock for CentralAuth wikis 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 Antoine Musso (hashar) - will not be present 287648 (deploy commands) contint: drop role::ci::slave::labs::light 287946 (deploy commands) contint: create /mnt/redis Glaisher 283841 (deploy commands) Add TranslationsUpdateJob to translate job runner group 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 (ostriches) 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)	James_F [config] 285985 (deploy commands) Enable VisualEditor by default for logged-in users on the Japanese Wikipedia [config] 287873 (deploy commands) Centralise feedback for the visual editor at the Hindi Wikipedia [wmf.23] 288126 (deploy commands) [VisualEditor] Fix deactivating VE after user explicitly decides to discard changes [wmf.1] 288127 (deploy commands) [VisualEditor] Fix deactivating VE after user explicitly decides to discard changes Bartosz (MatmaRex) [config] 287944 (deploy commands) Undeploy UploadWizard from test2wiki [config] 285708 (deploy commands) Configure testwiki as foreign file repo for test2wiki, allow cross-wiki uploads 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)	Glaisher [wmf.1] 288165 (deploy commands) On documentation unit deletion, don't attempt to re-render translation page Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak) 288192 (deploy commands) Updating portal stats & survey banner (note: please run the sync-portals script at the root of the repo after deploy) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–19:00 UTC # 09:00–12:00 PDT	ArticlePlaceholder	Marius (hoo), Lucie (frimelle)	Deploy ArticlePlaceholder to eowiki, htwiki, orwiki and napwiki. task T134273
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)	Roan (RoanKattouw) [config] 288224 (deploy commands) Enable Flow beta feature on Wikispecies [wmf.1] 288263 (deploy commands) Fix page caching invalidation for cross-wiki notifications [wmf.23] 288328 (deploy commands) wfAppendQuery fix in MW core Advance wmf.23's Echo submodule to wmf.1 Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak) 288315 (deploy commands) updating survey banner on wikipedia.org (note: please run the sync-portals script at the root of the repo after deploy) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Thursday, May 12
10:00–11:00 UTC # 03:00–04:00 PDT	Ops / Graphite	Filippo (godog)	Filippo (godog) split graphite metrics to multiple machines https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/287970 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/277490
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)	Kartik Mistry (kart_) [wmf/1.27.0-wmf.23] 288342 (deploy commands) MT: Use custom labels instead of provider id [wmf/1.28.0-wmf.1] 288171 (deploy commands) MT: Use custom labels instead of provider id David Causse (dcausse) [config] 281966 (deploy commands) Remove deprecated settings [config] 287973 (deploy commands) Bump CirrusSearchRequestSet avro schema to rev 121456865906 Brian Wolff (bawolff) [wmf/1.28.0-wmf.1] 288385 (deploy commands) Use STRAIGHT_JOIN on updateCollation.php [wmf/1.28.0-wmf.1] 288386 (deploy commands) use slave for row estimate in updateCollation.php [wmf/1.28.0-wmf.1] 288384 (deploy commands) Make updateCollation.php wait for slaves more often. frimelle [wmf.23][wmf.1] 288396 (deploy commands) Update Wikidata/ArticlePlaceholder - Fix notability checks and props params 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_), Guillaume (gehel)	Marko (mobrovac) 288376 (deploy commands) Change-Prop: Limit the number of concurrent tasks Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change 288376
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)	Roan (RoanKattouw) [config] 287035 (deploy commands) Enable cross-wiki notifications by default Sébastien (Dereckson) [config] 288377 (deploy commands) UK EU edit-a-thon throttle rule (task T134902) [config] 288392 (deploy commands) Allow import from outreach to meta (task T134788) Erik B (ebernhardson) - deploy in order listed. [wmf.1] 288465 (deploy commands) adjust data provided to frontend for textcat test REVERTED.[config] 268048 (deploy commands)+288545 (deploy commands) Backend configuration for textcat test POSTPONED. [wmf.1] 288467 (deploy commands) Fix bug in search click through data collection POSTPONED.[wmf.1] 288509 (deploy commands) frontend portion of textcat test. sync at same time as bug fix above. Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Week of May 16th

• Week of:
  • nothing yet

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, May 16
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani) or Mark (marktraceur)	Alexandros Kosiaris (akosiaris) 287095 (deploy commands) wgCopyUploadProxy: Vary per datacenter Alex (Krenair) 288628 (deploy commands) Set meta namespace names for jamwiki Urbanecm 288810 (deploy commands) Enable blocking feature of AbuseFilter on ptwiktionary 288956 (deploy commands) Add 'deletedtext' right to "eliminator" user group on fawiki 288965 (deploy commands) Add an alias 'ΒΠ' for Project namespace in elwiki Marko (mobrovac) 286180 (deploy commands) Enable MathML rendering by default on test, wikidata and dewikibooks Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:30–17:00 UTC # 09:30–10:00 PDT	Weekly Wikidata query service deployment window	Guillaume (gehel), Stas Malyshev (smalyshev)	Deploy new Blazegraph build and GUI updates
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)	Bartosz (MatmaRex) [wmf.1] 288715 (deploy commands) [UploadWizard] Fix 'Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '$element' of undefined' [config] 287959 (deploy commands) Prepare Commons configuration for $wgUploadDialog Erik B (ebernhardson) [config] 288546 (deploy commands) Backend configuration for textcat test [wmf.1] 288467 (deploy commands) Fix bug in search click through data collection [wmf.1] 288509 (deploy commands) frontend portion of textcat test. sync at same time as bug fix above. Roan (RoanKattouw) [wmf.1] 289098 (deploy commands) Fix missing message in Echo emails Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Tuesday, May 17
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)	James_F [config] 287646 (deploy commands) Enable VisualEditor for logged-out users on the Japanese Wikipedia Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak) [config] 289218 (deploy commands) Updating wikipedia.org survey banner. (note: please run the sync-portals script at the root of the repo after deploy) 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)	Jcrespo (jynus)	Tyler (thcipriani) 288630 (deploy commands) Clean old scap code 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 1.28.0-wmf.1->1.28.0-wmf.2 group1 1.28.0-wmf.1 group2 1.28.0-wmf.1 group0 to 1.28.0-wmf.2 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T134450
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Alex (Krenair), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	legoktm gerrit:288435 - Disable $wgCentralAuthCheckSULMigration functionality gerrit:289114 - Undeploy Gather extension RoanKattouw [wmf.2] 289268 (deploy commands) Bring back Echo email messages (contains i18n) [wmf.2] 289270 (deploy commands) Fix HTML email footer Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak) 289317 (deploy commands) Turning off survey banner on www.wikipedia.org (note: please run the sync-portals script at the root of the repo after deploy) Sébastien (Dereckson) [config] 287063 (deploy commands) Add tasnimnews.com & khamenei.ir to wgCopyUploadsDomains (task T134472) [config] 289331 (deploy commands) Add Puotal: namespace to jam.wikipedia (task T135479) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Wednesday, May 18
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
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Enable Ex:OATH on testwikis	Chris (csteipp), Darian (dapatrick)	Limited rollout of 2FA to test wikis (part of task T107605) centralauth schema update task T130700 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.2 group1 1.28.0-wmf.1->1.28.0-wmf.2 group2 1.28.0-wmf.1 group1 to 1.28.0-wmf.2 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T134450
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 19
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_)	Eric E (urandom) 284078 (deploy commands) Cassandra 2.2.6 config 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.2 group1 1.28.0-wmf.2 group2 1.28.0-wmf.1->1.28.0-wmf.2 group2 to 1.28.0-wmf.2 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T134450
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.