Deployments/Archive/2014/02

Log of major(ish) software deployments in February 2014. For an exhaustive list of site changes, see Server Admin Log . For the latest list of recent and upcoming deployments, see Deployments .

Week of February 3

Week of

ULSFO going online (Brandon/Faidon), in stages

By day

Time

Component

Deployer

Changes

Monday, February 03

17:00 – 19:00 UTC #
09:00 – 11:00 PST

N/A

Nik/Chad

Search : CirrusSearch as BetaFeature on English and Hungarian Wikipedia

19:00 – 20:00 UTC #
11:00 – 12:00 PST

N/A

Gabriel W

Parsoid deployments

20:00 – 21:00 UTC #
12:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

AWight , AndyRussG

EducationProgram bugfixes and schema alter

21:00 – 23:00 UTC #
13:00 – 15:00 PST

N/A

SPage/Benny

Deploy Flow on two enwiki WikiProject pages ( Breakfast and Hampshire ) , bug 60178

23:00 – 00:00 UTC #
15:00 – 16:00 PST

N/A

Max/Juliusz

mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit and MW Core backports of captcha fixes

part 1: bug 46072
- core - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106844/
- ConfirmEdit - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106845/
part 2: bug 60008
- core - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108088/
- ConfirmEdit - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108089/

Tuesday, February 04

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Mon) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

Timo: VisualEditor back-ports to wmf11: 110652 , 110826 (backup marktraceur ( talk ))
Mwalker - 111101 : Update to Special:LandingCheck to support anchors
User:Superm401 - 110477 : Revert "User::saveOptions() optimization"

19:00 – 21:00 UTC #
11:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

Sam / Greg

MediaWiki deploy window , currently following the 1.23 schedule

group0	1.23wmf12
group1	1.23wmf11->1.23wmf12
group2	1.23wmf11

group1 to 1.23wmf12 : All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary , Wikisource , Wikinews , Wikibooks , Wikiquote , Wikiversity , and a few other sites)

Also:

111141 VE deployment fix for phase 4 in January that got missed

21:00 – 23:00 UTC #
13:00 – 15:00 PST

N/A

SPage/Benny

Flow

CheckUser fixes ( 111160 , 111161 to 1.23wmf11 (enwiki)
permalink ( 111320 ) , diff ( 111322 ) , and API doc fixes ( 111321 ) to 1.23wmf12 (mw.org)

Wednesday, February 05

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Tue) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

Kaldari - 111109 : Fix watchlist star in VectorBeta

17:00 – 18:00 UTC #
09:00 – 10:00 PST

N/A

Nik/Chad/Ops?

Search : hold

18:00 – 19:00 UTC #
10:00 – 11:00 PST

N/A

Yuri

Wikipedia Zero deploy window

21:00 – 22:00 UTC #
13:00 – 14:00 PST

N/A

Gabriel

Parsoid deployments

Thursday, February 06

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Wed) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

Special:Notifications fix to Echo for Flow bug 60906

19:00 – 21:00 UTC #
11:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

Sam / Greg

MediaWiki deploy window , currently following the 1.23 schedule)

group0	1.23wmf12->1.23wmf13
group1	1.23wmf12
group2	1.23wmf11->1.23wmf12

group2 to 1.23wmf12 (all Wikipedias)
group0 to 1.23wmf13 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)

Friday, February 07

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Thu) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

[Timo] VisualEditor backports to wmf12 ( 111697 ) and wmf13 ( 111912 )

Week of February 10th

Week of

nothing yet

By day

Time

Component

Deployer

Changes

Monday, February 10

13:00 – 13:30 UTC #
05:00 – 05:30 PST

N/A

Chad

Gerrit update to fix bug 60940

17:00 – 19:00 UTC #
09:00 – 11:00 PST

N/A

Nik/Chad

Search : Hold - nothing planned this week

21:00 – 22:00 UTC #
13:00 – 14:00 PST

N/A

Gabriel W

Parsoid deployments

22:00 – 23:00 UTC #
14:00 – 15:00 PST

N/A

MaxSem

mw:Extension:MobileApp deployed to production.

New Mobile Apps (to be launched in end Feb) will have a content styling different from mobile web , supported by the MobileApp extension , so that it can update styling without having to do an app store update.

23:59 – 00:29 UTC #
15:59 – 16:29 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

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Tuesday, February 11

08:00 – 09:00 UTC #
00:00 – 01:00 PST

N/A

Niklas

Language Team: Prep for ULS re-enablement. Deploying 112435

17:00 – 18:00 UTC #
09:00 – 10:00 PST

N/A

Matt F/Sam S

Configuration update and sync to deploy GettingStarted and GuidedTour to additional languages of Wikipedia. ( Trello card , deploy notes )

19:00 – 21:00 UTC #
11:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

Sam / Greg

MediaWiki deploy window , currently following the 1.23 schedule

group0	1.23wmf13
group1	1.23wmf12->1.23wmf13
group2	1.23wmf12

group1 to 1.23wmf13 : All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary , Wikisource , Wikinews , Wikibooks , Wikiquote , Wikiversity , and a few other sites)

21:30 – 22:30 UTC #
13:30 – 14:30 PST

N/A

MaxSem

MobileApp deploy , delayed by yesterday's outage

22:30 – 00:00 UTC #
14:30 – 16:00 PST

N/A

S Page/Erik B

Flow : Convert Flow UUIDs from 128-bit base16 to 88-bit base36 (alphadecimal). Flow pages will display an error during the switchover.

98995 has explanatory commit message.

Plus some backports to wmf13.

23:59 – 00:29 UTC #
15:59 – 16:29 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

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Wednesday, February 12

05:00 – 06:00 UTC #
(Tue) 21:00 – 22:00 PST

N/A

OTRS Admins & Jeff Green

OTRS upgrade to 3.2.14 - bugzilla:60271

17:00 – 18:00 UTC #
09:00 – 10:00 PST

N/A

Nik/Chad/Ops?

Search : hold - nothing planned this week as of yet

18:00 – 19:00 UTC #
10:00 – 11:00 PST

N/A

Yuri

Wikipedia Zero deploy window

21:00 – 22:00 UTC #
13:00 – 14:00 PST

N/A

Gabriel

Parsoid deployments

22:00 – 23:00 UTC #
14:00 – 15:00 PST

N/A

Roan

VisualEditor changes

Config:

109639 – switch to opt-in on eswiki
112582 – enable for opt-in on frwikiversity
111148 – allow enabling TemplateData GUI (unused)

Backport:

112814 – fix Vector integration margins (wmf13; needs extra touch on deploy , per Timo's review comment)

22:00 – 01:00 UTC #
14:00 – 17:00 PST

N/A

Daniel Z / Andre K

Bugzilla maintenance.

23:59 – 00:29 UTC #
15:59 – 16:29 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

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Thursday, February 13

19:00 – 21:00 UTC #
11:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

Sam / Greg

MediaWiki deploy window , currently following the 1.23 schedule)

group0	1.23wmf13->1.23wmf14
group1	1.23wmf13
group2	1.23wmf12->1.23wmf13

group2 to 1.23wmf13 (all Wikipedias)
group0 to 1.23wmf14 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Re-enabling ULS: 108988 (follows the staggered release with 1.23wmf14).

23:59 – 00:29 UTC #
15:59 – 16:29 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

Parsoid: fix for templated wiki link tails
Flow: fix for pagination returning only one topic
Multimedia: fix for arrow keys being backwards (I love how we break things)

Week of February 17th

Week of

nothing yet

By day

Time

Component

Deployer

Changes

Monday, February 17

00:01 – 23:01 UTC #
(Sun) 16:01 – 15:01 PST

N/A

Everyone

NO DEPLOYS (US Holiday - Presidents Day)

Tuesday, February 18

19:00 – 21:00 UTC #
11:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

Sam / Greg

MediaWiki deploy window , currently following the 1.23 schedule

group0	1.23wmf14
group1	1.23wmf13->1.23wmf14
group2	1.23wmf13

group1 to 1.23wmf14 : All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary , Wikisource , Wikinews , Wikibooks , Wikiquote , Wikiversity , and a few other sites)

Includes mw:UniversalLanguageSelector re- enabling , with webfonts defaulting off .

22:00 – 00:00 UTC #
14:00 – 16:00 PST

N/A

S Page / Erik B

Flow :

backport compat. code for DB update
enable Flow on meta test page and a few more mediawiki.org talk pages
configure qa_automation role on test2wiki 113311

Wednesday, February 19

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Tue) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

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17:00 – 18:00 UTC #
09:00 – 10:00 PST

N/A

Nik/Chad/Ops?

Search :

Wikiversity and it.wikiquote get Cirrus as secondary index

18:00 – 19:00 UTC #
10:00 – 11:00 PST

N/A

Yuri

Wikipedia Zero deploy window

21:00 – 22:00 UTC #
13:00 – 14:00 PST

N/A

Gabriel

Parsoid deployments

Thursday, February 20

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Wed) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Apparently not Greg

Lightning deploy time :

112452 -- marktraceur ( talk )
114169 -- ^demon

19:00 – 21:00 UTC #
11:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

Sam / Greg

MediaWiki deploy window , currently following the 1.23 schedule)

group0	1.23wmf14->1.23wmf15
group1	1.23wmf14
group2	1.23wmf13->1.23wmf14

group2 to 1.23wmf14 (all Wikipedias)

Includes mw:UniversalLanguageSelector re- enabling , with webfonts defaulting off .
group0 to 1.23wmf15 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Wikidata Repository code updated on testwikidata
Pending tests on testwikidata , Wikidata Repository code updated on wikidata.org

Friday, February 21

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Thu) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

Parsoid -- gwicke ( talk )

Week of February 24th

Week of

Monday morning (European time): Antoine and a European Opsen, fix for doc.wikimedia.org and integration.wikimedia.org http->https redirects - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111917/
Brandon B will be upgrading Varnish instances to a newer version (previously deployed/tested at ulsfo) slowly over the week, avoiding maint windows

By day

Time

Component

Deployer

Changes

Monday, February 24

17:00 – 18:00 UTC #
09:00 – 10:00 PST

N/A

Nik/Chad

Search : hold

21:00 – 22:00 UTC #
13:00 – 14:00 PST

N/A

Gabriel

Parsoid deployments

Tuesday, February 25

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Mon) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

Roan:
- [Config] Make VisualEditor opt-out on Portuguese Wikibooks bugzilla:61762 115213
- [Config] Enable VE in the "Recherche:" (104) namespace for French Wikiversity bugzilla:61874 115299
- [Config] Fix popup video size by ordering transcode settings properly bugzilla:61760 115094
- [Backport , wmf15 only] Always try to put redirects at index 0 , offset 0 bugzilla:61862 115309
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19:00 – 21:00 UTC #
11:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

Sam / Greg

MediaWiki deploy window , currently following the 1.23 schedule

group0	1.23wmf15
group1	1.23wmf14->1.23wmf15
group2	1.23wmf14

group1 to 1.23wmf15 : All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary , Wikisource , Wikinews , Wikibooks , Wikiquote , Wikiversity , and a few other sites)
- includes the wikidata extension(s) code updates to Wikivoyage , Commons , Wikisource

22:00 – 00:00 UTC #
14:00 – 16:00 PST

N/A

S Page / Erik B

Flow :

Fix performance regression in UUID alphadecimal handling
Remove exception logging in one instance where it is expected ( bug 61797 I990057ac )

Wednesday, February 26

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Tue) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

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17:00 – 18:00 UTC #
09:00 – 10:00 PST

N/A

Nik/Chad

Search : hold

18:00 – 19:00 UTC #
10:00 – 11:00 PST

N/A

Yuri

Wikipedia Zero deploy window

21:00 – 22:00 UTC #
13:00 – 14:00 PST

N/A

Gabriel

Parsoid deployments

Thursday, February 27

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Wed) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Dan Garry

Lightning deploy time :

[Matt Flaschen] Config update to enable on GuidedTour and GettingStarted on additional projects. Notes

19:00 – 21:00 UTC #
11:00 – 13:00 PST

N/A

Bryan / Greg

MediaWiki deploy window , currently following the 1.23 schedule)

group0	1.23wmf15->1.23wmf16
group1	1.23wmf15
group2	1.23wmf14->1.23wmf15

group2 to 1.23wmf15 (all Wikipedias)
- includes the wikidata extension(s) code updates to Wikipedias
group0 to 1.23wmf16 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)

Friday, February 28

00:00 – 00:30 UTC #
(Thu) 16:00 – 16:30 PST

N/A

Greg

Lightning deploy time :

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