Content translation/Deployments/Deployment Plan

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Deployment Plan

General

Deployment Component	Day/Time	People Involved	Notes
cxserver	Wednesday (PST)/Thursday (IST), Before CX deployment	Kartik (kart_), Tech Ops (Alex K/Andrew/Fillippo mostly)	See this
ContentTranslation extension updates	Deployment train	Release Team	This can also be done by SWAT (for cherry-pick) if needed.
cxserver configuration	As needed	Kartik (kart_), Tech Ops	Puppet config; In effect immediately.
MediaWiki config in Production	As needed	Kartik (kart_), Niklas (Nikerabbit)	mediawiki-config

New Language pairs

As per the graduation plan and this plan may vary depending upon language pairs and possible complexity in languages and MT availability etc.

Steps	Components Modified	People Involved	Days to complete (estimated)
Request received	None; Request Triaged	Runa/Amir/Pau	1
Possible language sources checked	None	Runa/Pau	1
Language specific adaptation	cxserver & CX extension. See: checklist	Developers	0-7
MT quality survey completed (applicable for languages with MT support)	None	Runa/Amir/Pau	3 (may vary depending on community response)
Configuration update on labs instance for users to test	MT packages (applicable for languages with MT support) cxserver config for language pair	Kartik/Niklas/TechOps	3–4 days
Testing period on Labs	None	Everyone	7 days
Announcement made on the Wikipedia VP/Community forum about projected deployment date	None	Runa	1 (to be done on the same day when testing period starts on Labs
Preparation for deployment on production instance	Puppet config for new pair mediawiki-config for deployment in new wiki (if needed) and schedule SWAT	Kartik/Tech Ops	3–5 days (to be completed by the last day of testing on Labs, if no major bugs are identified)
Deployment on Production instance	mediawiki-config merged (with SWAT) and updated in the target wikipedia Puppet config merged	Kartik/Tech Ops	2 days
Announcements made to the target Wikipedia	None	Runa	1 day (same as production deployment)
Update Analytics data/graph (Limn)	Analytics. See: New language How-to	Kartik/Niklas	To be done along with Production deployment

Upcoming deployment

• By "deployment" we mean "Deploy CX as a beta feature", not as a feature available for everybody.

Code and configuration changes

Planned

• Apertium:

• Puppet:

• config:

• Content Translation:

• cxserver:

See also

• List of Wikis Languages with Content Translation
• Content Translation/cxserver deployments details