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Deployments
![]() | For the time being, Release Engineering and SRE request that you follow the Covid-19 deployment recommendations. |
- 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 Engineering Team). They happen on Mondays to Thursdays at:
- "European Mid-day SWAT", 04:00 Pacific
- "Morning SWAT", 11:00 Pacific (except Tuesdays)
- "Evening SWAT", 16:00 Pacific
For detailed instructions on how to actually deploy code to the Wikimedia servers, see How to deploy code.
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This page tracks upcoming deployments of software to the Wikimedia Foundation servers that host Wikimedia project sites (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons, etc.).
- Cadence
- For the core software ("MediaWiki"): 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).
- For other non-core software: Each team is responsible for their own schedule.
- Scheduling
- To schedule a deploy window, or if you see a potential conflict with your upcoming deployment, please contact the Release Engineering Team on IRC at #wikimedia-releng connect; pinging Greg (
greg-g
) or Tyler (thcipriani
) directly helps. - 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?
Near-term
NOTE: You can also 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 google calendar being incorrect.
![]() | For the time being, Release Engineering and SRE request that you follow the Covid-19 deployment recommendations. |
Week of May 25
Time | Component | Deployer | Changes | ||||||
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Sunday, May 24 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken. | No Deploys | |||||||
Monday, May 25 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken. | Memorial Day | |||||||
Tuesday, May 26 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
European Mid-day SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
MarcoAurelio (hauskatze)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Mediawiki train - European Version | Antoine "hashar" Musso (hashar) | 1.35 schedule
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– UTC # – PDT |
Puppet SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Filippo (godog), Giuseppe (_joe_) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Services – Graphoid / Citoid / ORES | Aaron (halfak)), Andy (accraze) | See Graphoid | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Pre MediaWiki train sanity break | No Deploys | |||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Mediawiki train - American Version | Mukunda (twentyafterfour), James (James_F) | 1.35 schedule
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– UTC # – PDT |
Evening SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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Wednesday, May 27 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
European Mid-day SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm) | Kartik Mistry (kart_)
Kosta Harlan (kostajh)
Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Train log triage with CPT | Mukunda (twentyafterfour), James (James_F) + CPT | See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Morning SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Jdlrobson
Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Mediawiki train - American Version | Mukunda (twentyafterfour), James (James_F) | 1.35 schedule
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– UTC # – PDT |
Services – Graphoid / Citoid / ORES | Aaron (halfak)), Andy (accraze) | See Graphoid | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Evening SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
Samuel (RhinosF1)
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Thursday, May 28 | |||||||||
– UTC # (Wed) – PDT |
Phabricator update | Mukunda (twentyafterfour) | HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
European Mid-day SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Puppet SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Filippo (godog), Giuseppe (_joe_) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Services – Graphoid / Citoid / ORES | Aaron (halfak)), Andy (accraze) | See Graphoid | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Morning SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Mediawiki train - American Version | Mukunda (twentyafterfour), James (James_F) | 1.35 schedule
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– UTC # – PDT |
Evening SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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Friday, May 29 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken. | No Deploys | |||||||
Saturday, May 30 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken. | No Deploys |
Week of June 01
Time | Component | Deployer | Changes | ||||||
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Sunday, May 31 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken. | No Deploys | |||||||
Monday, June 01 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Wikimedia Portals Update | Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak) | Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/ | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
European Mid-day SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy | Guillaume (gehel), Mathew (onimisionipe) | ... | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Morning SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Bill Pirkle (bpirkle), Petr Pchelko (Pchelolo)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Services – Graphoid / Citoid / ORES | Aaron (halfak)), Andy (accraze) | See Graphoid | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Weekly Security deployment window | Sam (Reedy), Scott (sbassett) | Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys. | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Evening SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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Tuesday, June 02 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
European Mid-day SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Puppet SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Filippo (godog), Giuseppe (_joe_) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Services – Graphoid / Citoid / ORES | Aaron (halfak)), Andy (accraze) | See Graphoid | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Pre MediaWiki train sanity break | No Deploys | |||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Mediawiki train - American Version | James (James_F), Jeena (longma) | 1.35 schedule
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– UTC # – PDT |
Evening SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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Wednesday, June 03 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
European Mid-day SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Train log triage with CPT | James (James_F), Jeena (longma) + CPT | See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Morning SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Mediawiki train - American Version | James (James_F), Jeena (longma) | 1.35 schedule
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– UTC # – PDT |
Services – Graphoid / Citoid / ORES | Aaron (halfak)), Andy (accraze) | See Graphoid | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Evening SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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Thursday, June 04 | |||||||||
– UTC # (Wed) – PDT |
Phabricator update | Mukunda (twentyafterfour) | HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
European Mid-day SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Puppet SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Filippo (godog), Giuseppe (_joe_) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
| ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Services – Graphoid / Citoid / ORES | Aaron (halfak)), Andy (accraze) | See Graphoid | ||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
Morning SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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– UTC # – PDT |
Mediawiki train - American Version | James (James_F), Jeena (longma) | 1.35 schedule
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– UTC # – PDT |
Evening SWAT (Max 6 patches) |
Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm) | Requesting Developer (irc-nickname)
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Friday, June 05 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken. | No Deploys | |||||||
Saturday, June 06 | |||||||||
– UTC # – PDT |
No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken. | No Deploys |