*tl;dr*: use `scap backport <gerrit url>` to deploy MediaWiki backports
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There’s now a *single step* to deploy changes to Wikimedia’s production
MediaWiki.
🤯 An 85% reduction in command remembering!
On the deployment host run:
scap backport <gerrit url>
This works for any change to a live branch for mediawiki/core, extensions,
skins, or operations/mediawiki-config.
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More details (and a demo) inside Jeena Huneidi’s excellent write up
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/297/scap_backport_makes_deployments_easy/>
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<3
– Tyler Cipriani (on behalf of the RelEngers <https://releng.team> who really
do make dreams come true)
Engineering Manager, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation