[Engineering] [Ops] Canary Deploys for MediaWiki

Tue Jul 26 03:45:08 UTC 2016

On Jul 25, 2016 16:12, "Bryan Davis" <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> I think Alex is "more right" here. If you are introducing a new $wmgX
> var you really should always sync-file the changed InitialiseSettings
> file first and then the CommonSettings that uses it. There's no really
> good reason to spew a bunch of "undefined X" warnings and there is no
> guarantee with sync-dir that the files will be sent in the proper
> order.
>

That's true, but sometimes (either because multiple changes are made, or
things are removed, or whatever) there is no sync order that does not
produce errors. This isn't common but I have had it happen. In those cases,
you'll now be forced to use sync-dir.
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