Hi,

I already used this feature before you sent the email and found it very
useful. I especially like the link from gerrit.

Thanks,

Dreamy Jazz

English Wikipedia CheckUser, Admin and Arb Clerk.
Software Engineer working at the Wikimedia Foundation


On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 16:14, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Last week I saw this in a WMF internal chat: "Now we just need to make
> it a weeee easier to edit the Deployments calendar.  (or…is there an
> easier way than squinting at wikitext tables and copy/pasting
> templates?)"
>
> I'm sure that a number of y'all can relate to this. The
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments> page is pretty nice
> to read as a human and not too bad for bots. Editing it though can be
> a bit painful as that pull quote implies. I decided I would try to do
> something about that. The result is a tool at
> <https://schedule-deployment.toolforge.org/>.
>
> The new "Wikimedia Deployment Scheduler" tool tries to make adding
> your Gerrit change to a backport window as simple as possible. All it
> needs from you is the Gerrit change number, your IRC nick, and the
> backport window you want to use. Using some python magic, including
> the always useful mwparserfromhell library, it finds the right place
> in [[wikitech:Deployments]] to insert your request for deployment.
>
> To make things even easier, Gerrit will now show you a "Schedule
> backport of this change" link underneath the commit message for
> changes that are eligible for a backport deployment. What changes are
> those? Any open, unmerged change on the master branch of
> operations/mediawiki-config.git or changes on "wmf/*" branches in
> mediawiki/core.git, mediawiki/extensions/*.git, or
> mediawiki/skins/*.git.
>
> Thanks to Antoine Musso and Tyler Cipriani for their help and
> encouragement in building this tool. If you are interested in seeing
> what the Gerrit integration needed, check out
> <
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/operations/software/gerrit/+/7ea913b
> ^!/>
>
> Bryan
> --
> Bryan Davis                                        Wikimedia Foundation
> Principal Software Engineer                               Boise, ID USA
> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]                                      irc: bd808
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