[Labs-l] Wikitech upgrade and config changes

Thu Sep 4 00:50:30 UTC 2014

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Andrew Bogott <abogott at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Executive summary:
>
> Wikitech may be a bit different today.  Please log any new issues here:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Labs and
> select 'wikitech-interface'.
>
> The whole story:
>
> Since the birth of Labs, wikitech.wikimedia.org (formerly known as
> 'labsconsole') has been managed by hand by Labs operations staff. While
> wikitech was in rapid development it made sense to keep its off-the-cuff
> design, but now that it's become a (quite) essential and (fairly) stable
> part of our infrastructure, it was time to bring it into the fold.
>
> So, as of today, wikitech is running a wiki config that's managed by our
> deployment infrastructure -- Internally, this is know as being 'on the
> deployment train.'  It's a good place to be -- wikitech will receive more
> timely updates, and can now be more easily configured by WMF staff and
> volunteers.  But, be warned:  since this entailed in a fresh build of
> wikitech from new code, there are bound to be unintended differences.  I
> haven't found any serious ones, but I bet you will!
>
> Please be on the lookout for new bugs, unexpected changes of behavior,
> etc.  When you find problems, report them using the bugzilla link above.
> If these issues are urgent (in other words, preventing you from doing stuff
> that you need to do) feel free to nag one of the involved people on IRC:
> coren, bd808, reedy, or me (andrewbogott).
>
> Many thanks to Bryan, Sam, Chad, Coren, and all others who helped with
> this endeavor!
>
>
\o/ Three cheers to all involved. I've wanted that for ages!

- Ryan
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