[Wikitech-ambassadors] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 24th

2014-03-21 Thread Greg Grossmeier 
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.

The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_24th

Notable items...

== Tuesday ==

* MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule
** group1 to 1.23wmf19: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
   Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** 
** Schedule:
   



* Switching the Compact Personal Bar Beta Feature discussion page to
  Flow
** 


== Wednesday ==

* Enable Hovercards on all wikis as a BetaFeature
** 


== Thursday ==

* MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule)
** group2 to 1.23wmf19 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.23wmf20 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
** 

* As a part of the MediaWiki rollout the Typography Refresh beta feature
  will move from VectorBeta extension/Beta Feature to the Vector skin in
  MediaWiki core. This effectively updates the default skin for all
  users with improved readability.
** See the summary of changes:
   
** This will roll out with the 1.23wmf20 branch mentioned above, which
   means it will gradually roll out to all wikis following the normal
   progression (testwikis & mediawiki.org on Thursday -> non-wikipedias
   (eg Commons etc) on Tuesday -> All wikis following Thursday).


Thanks, and as always, questions welcome,

Greg

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 24th

2014-03-21 Thread Steven Walling 
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Greg Grossmeier  wrote:

> * As a part of the MediaWiki rollout the Typography Refresh beta feature
>   will move from VectorBeta extension/Beta Feature to the Vector skin in
>   MediaWiki core. This effectively updates the default skin for all
>   users with improved readability.
> ** See the summary of changes:
>
> ** This will roll out with the 1.23wmf20 branch mentioned above, which
>means it will gradually roll out to all wikis following the normal
>progression (testwikis & mediawiki.org on Thursday -> non-wikipedias
>(eg Commons etc) on Tuesday -> All wikis following Thursday).
>

So folks know, other than publishing on Wikitech Deployments page, in Tech
News, and these mailing lists, our communication plans include the
following:

1. A MassMessage before the fact to Village Pumps, separate from Tech News
and pointing to the translated FAQ
2. An article in the English Wikipedia Signpost
3. A short blog post on blog.wikimedia.org

If there are other things you think we should be doing, please speak up.
The overkill message of last resort is to use a CentralNotice banner,
though that seems a little silly to me just to update fonts.

-- 
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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