Deployments

Revision as of 18:33, 21 May 2012

Upcoming major(ish) software deployments and operations changes. For past deployments, see Software deployments/2011 archive. For an exhaustive list of past site changes, see Server admin log. For our long-term roadmap, see mw:Roadmap. Please provide UTC times for all deployments (PDT times optional). This page is hosted on wikitech because it needs to be accessible during site outages.

Ongoing

• Monday, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki general deployment window
• Monday, 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Tuesday, 16:30-17:30 UTC (9:30am-10:30am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Sam]
• Tuesdays, 20:00-22:00 UTC (1pm-3pm PDT): Editor Engagement deployment window [Ian, Kaldari, Benny]
• Wednesday 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki general deployment window
• Thursday 17:00-19:00 ArticleFeedbackv5 updates [Roan]

Week of May 21

• Monday, May 21 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf3 to en.wikipedia.org [RobLa, Sam]
• Monday, May 21 20:00-21:00 UTC (1pm-2pm PDT): PageTriage deployment and re-enabling [Roan, Kaldari]
• Monday, May 21 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Tuesday, May 22 16:30-17:30 UTC (9:30am-10:30am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Sam]
• Tuesday, May 22, 17:30-19:00 UTC (10:30am-noon PDT): SwiftBackend to write thumbnails instead of rewrite.py (all wikis) [Ben, Aaron]
• Wednesday May 23 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf3 to all wikipedia.org [RobLa, Sam]
• Wednesday May 23 17:00-18:00 UTC (10am-11am PDT): Wikipedia Zero Partner testing [Dan, Patrick]
• Wednesday May 23 21:00-23:00 UTC (2pm-4pm PDT): SwiftBackend to write thumbnails instead of rewrite.py (all wikis) [Ben, Aaron]
• Thursday May 24 17:00-19:00 (10am-12pm PDT): ArticleFeedbackv5 updates [Roan]
• Thursday May 24 17:30-19:00 (10:30am-12pm PDT): Wikipedia Zero Partner testing [Dan, Patrick]

Near-term to be scheduled

• [May] Switch over sibling projects & wmf wiki to mobile (m.*)
• Further upgrades of Brocade switch@ Evoswitch [Leslie/Mark B]
• Upgrading cr2-pmtpa to 10.4r9 - this will cause a brief outage in its connectivity [Leslie]
• Rebuild and redeploy Search@Tampa - tbd

Holidays / Other events

U.S. holidays which WMF observes and some of the developers may adhere to:

• New Year's Day (January 1)
• Martin Luther King Day (third Monday in January)
• President's Day (third Monday in February)
• Europe goes to summer time (last Sunday in March)
• Australia switches off summer time (first Sunday in April)
• A religious holiday in Germany (May 17)
• Memorial Day (last Monday in May, 28 May 2012)
• Berlin hackathon (June 1-3)
• Independence Day (July 4)
• Labor Day (first Monday in September)
• Columbus Day (second Monday in October)
• Europe off of summer time (last Sunday in October)
• US off of daylight savings (first Sunday in November)
• Veteran's Day (November 11)
• Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November)
• Day after Thanksgiving (fourth Friday in November)
• Christmas Day (December 25)

Recently completed

For deployments more than one week ago, please see Software deployments/2012 archive

• Tuesday, May 1, 16:30-17:30 UTC (10am-11am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Antoine for git assistance]
• Wednesday, May 2, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf2 to non-Wikipedia wikis
• Wednesday, May 2, 22:00-23:30 UTC (3pm-4:30pm PDT): PageTriage initial deployment (early prototype of List View via private url, see labs prototype) [Roan/Ian] [partial, rescheduled]
• Thursday, May 3, 21:00-21:30 UTC (2pm-2:30pm PDT): Switch ES writes to new cluster23 tables [Asher] [done]
• Thursday, May 3, 21.00 onwards : script to move /usr/local/apache to /a partition on all non-imagescaler, non-jobrunner apaches [done]
• Thursday, May 3, 22:00-23:30 UTC (3pm-4:30pm PDT): ArticleFeedbackv5 updates (tentatively moved here due to Monthly Metrics) [Roan] [bumped for PageTriage]
• Friday, may 4, ongoing - upgrade squid servers@tpa to latest lucid
• Enable EnotifWatchlist on all wikis, 1 h window with ops to check load (bugzilla:28026, RT:1784) [Scheduling: Reedy] -- ?
• Friday, May 4, 17:00-18:00 UTC (10am-11am PDT): Gerrit 2.3 upgrade, may affect code review (test instance: http://gerrit-dev.wmflabs.org )
• on-going server reboot for those Apache servers running Lucid kernel 2.6.32 (and lower) and over 200 days of uptime
• on-going S2 database refresh
• Friday, May 4, 17:00-19:00 UTC (10am-12pm PDT): Zero Partner Testing
• Monday, May 7, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf2 deployment - Deploy to English Wikipedia
• Monday, May 7, 21:00-22:00 UTC (2pm-3pm PDT): PageTriage enwiki experimental deploy [Ian/Roan]
• Deploy uplink to rack A4 (sdtpa) (2nd attempt)
• Monday, May 7, 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Tuesday, May 8, 16:30-17:30 UTC (9:30am-10:30am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Antoine for git assistance / Roan]
• Tuesday, May 8, 1900-2100 UTC (1pm - 3pm PDT): Deploy new swift thumbnail container sharding scheme [Ben / Aaron]
• Tuesday, May 8, 2100-2200 UTC (3pm - 4pm PDT): MobileFrontend bug fixes [Patrick/Arthur]
• Wednesday, May 9, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf2 deployment - Deploy to other Wikipedias
• Wednesday, May 9, 16:00-18:00 UTC (9am-11am PDT): Wikipedia Zero partner testing [Dan/Patrick]
• Thursday, May 10, 17:00-19:00 UTC (10am-noon PDT): ArticleFeedbackv5 updates [Roan]
• Thursday, May 10, 17:00-19:30 UTC (10am-12:30pm PDT):Wikipedia Zero partner testing [Dan/Patrick] (overlap coordinated with Roan)
• Thursday, May 10, 18:00 - 20:00 UTC (11am - 1pm PDT): Re-home 2nd network transport link @ SDTPA (from core [ router to core switch) [Mark/Leslie]
• setting up external IPs to various servers [Leslie]
• limited Precise testing [Mark]
• OS (Lucid) upgrade/patch train - ongoing
  • upgrade/patch all DB servers to latest Lucid release
  • upgrade/patch all Squid servers (ESAM)
  • upgrade/patch all Squid servers (TPA/EQIAD)
• (continuing) setting up external IPs to various servers [Leslie]
• Monday May 14, 17:00-18:00 UTC (10am-11am PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf2 deployment - Deploy to labsconsole
• Monday, May 14 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf3 deployment to test, test2, and mediawiki.org
• Monday, May 14 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Tuesday, May 15 16:30-17:30 UTC (9:30am-10:30am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Antoine for git assistance] Cancelled
• Tuesday, May 15 17:30-19:00 UTC (10:30am-noon PDT): SwiftBackend to purge thumbnails instead of calling cloudfiles directly; exercise parallel purging (Rolled back. Will try again Thurs.)
• Tuesday, May 15 20:00-22:00 UTC (1pm-3pm PDT): Editor Engagement deployment window [Ian, Kaldari, Benny]
• Tuesday, May 14 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Wednesday, May 16 1730-1800 UTC (1030am-11am): MobileFrontend quick fix [Arthur]
• Wednesday, May 16 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki deployment to non-Wikipedia wikis
• Wednesday, May 16 17:30-19:00 UTC (9:30am-11am PDT): Wikipedia Zero partner testing [Dan/Patrick]
• Thursday, May 17 17:00-19:00 UTC (10am-noon PDT): ArticleFeedbackv5 updates [Roan]
• Thursday, May 17 17:30-19:00 UTC (10:30m-noon PDT): Wikipedia Zero partner testing [Dan/Patrick]
• Thursday, May 17 20:00-22:00 UTC (1pm-3pm PDT): SwiftBackend to purge thumbnails and SwiftBackend to write thumbnails instead of rewrite.py (some wikis)
• TBD - deploy additional Swift monitoring

Long-term deployments

These are the extensions that are under active development by WMF, but whose deployment is not imminent