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Revision as of 23:21, 10 March 2012
How frequently do new changes to MediaWiki get deployed to Wikimedia sites?
There are some MediaWiki changes that only get deployed to the Wikimedia sites along with major MediaWiki versions; there are some that have regular "deployment windows" every week; and there are some that get immediate deployment.
The bits that get updated as-needed are things where there is a strong sysadmin need or there's a major pain point for lots of users; those deserve their own ad hoc deployments. If there is a fix for something available, and it's causing issues on Wikimedia sites, usually if it's been reviewed, it can be deployed. This doesn't always happen automatically though, so sometimes asking is what's necessary; ask via a comment on the revision/diff (to get someone to tag it for immediate review), in #mediawiki on FreeNode IRC, or on wikitech-l. The criteria for deploying an individual fix would be "how many people is this affecting" and "how severe is the issue".
The bits that get updated weekly are features that we're working on like Article Feedback Tool, MobileFrontend, etc. -- see ongoing software deployments.
And then everything else just gets updated when we deploy a new version of MediaWiki to the sites.
