Heterogeneous deployment/status

Last update on: 2012-04-17

2011-06-02

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Priyanka Dhanda prepared a project plan and did the initial preparatory work. A prototype will soon be set up.

2011-06-07

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Done:

In Progress:

  • Document all the manual changes that were needed in a README

Next steps:

  • Instead of duplicate host2db() code set and env variable MW_DBNAME and use it in CommonSettings.php
  • Use MW_DBNAME in maintenance/Maintenance.php in loadWikimediaSettings()
  • Test maintenance scripts
  • Figure out how to make $wgExtensionAssetsPath and $wgStyleSheetPath work with correct versions on bits.wikimedia.org

2011-06-15

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Done:

  • Tim has been reviewing code and giving feedback
  • Lots of code cleanup
  • Checked in scripts to generate wikiversions.db which is a cdb for keeping track of versions
  • README updated.

In Progress:

  • More code cleanup
  • Changes required for maintenance scripts

Next steps:

  • TBD

2011-07-01

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Priyanka Dhanda and Tim Starling added features and improved the code, which is now in SVN. Priyanka used it to deploy different versions of MediaWiki on a prototype. Tim and Priyanka are now discussing edge cases and remaining tasks.

2011-07-24

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Aaron Schulz picked up work on this project, and completed most of it. Testing is scheduled to happen by early August.

2011-08-31

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Aaron Schulz completed most of the features, and Tim Starling reviewed Aaron's code. Only a few minor fixes were required; the system should be deployed in early September, so it can be used for the deployment of MediaWiki 1.18 to Wikimedia sites.

2012-04-17

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This feature is now deployed on Wikimedia's sites, and we use it to do staged rollouts of new versions of MediaWiki to our wikis.