[Wikitech-l] Renaming deployment site central wiki

[Petr Bena]

Hey all,

If some of you used the deployment site at wmflabs.org please note
that I am renaming the central wiki this week from:

labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org to

deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org

The previous domain should redirect, but it may result in some
outages. This rename is done as a result of discussion we had between
some other devs, there were some complains that the current name is
confusing people, since some of them thought that deployment site is
wikimedia labs, while in fact it's a project of wikimedia labs. If
there are any issues or requests regarding deployment site, please
create a ticket in bugzilla, we have a section deployment beta cluster
in Wikimedia Labs product.

Thank you

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[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 13:07, Petr Bena <bena...@gmail.com> wrote:

> since some of them thought that deployment site is
> wikimedia labs, while in fact it's a project of wikimedia labs
>

"Backstage" projects in the meta homepage[1] might need an update to
reflect the correct understanding too.

Also correct me if am wrong, TestWiki is to test *any* change while
the deployment
site is for testing next wmf release. Translatewiki is the place to
preview/test all i18n changes. Has testwiki become redundant after having
the deployment site?

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Regards
Srikanth.L

[Petr Bena]

Test wiki is running production version of mediawiki, so it's not
useful to perform any tests of software which wasn't reviewed and
isn't considered stable. It's a last place where sw goes to before
it's updated on production sites. Developers can test some
configuration changes and scripts to test if it wouldn't break
anything.

The deployment site on labs is meant to be a place where unstable
software and development version is running, so that community of
wikimedia projects and tech folks can test it while it's still in
development and prepare their gadgets to work with future version of
software.

I hope it's more clear now