Event Timeline
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The photo of the just arrived shirts that I posted to twitter on 2014-09-15:
I took these as luggage to the WMF all-hands meetup in San Francisco in January 2015 and handed them out to folks.
So bd808 made one: http://oi61.tinypic.com/2ryj5kz.jpg
tinypic.com has been lost to the sands of time. That photo was:
In 2016 I started making a sticker version because 1) easier to carry places, 2) no worries about not having the correct size, 3) cheaper.
The 2014-04-08 scap triggered outage that "earned" me the shirt (and my Chaos Monkey badge):
The change to scap: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/124627
The revert of the change to scap: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/124658
The corrected version of the original change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/124762
See also:
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/20140403-Deploy - the l10nupdate script incident that led to attempting to fix the long standing bug in generating the localization files
- T65659: Scap creates wmf-config/ExtensionMessages-*.php using wikiversions.cdb from prior scap/sync-wikiversions run
Thanks to Wikipedia:Village stocks I found the link to that day's IRC logs. The interesting bits start at 2014-04-08 18:04:23. I suppose I should issue a "parental advisory, explicit content" warning to go with that link for the use of vulgar colloquialisms expressing dismay.
2014-04-08 18:12:57 <bd808|deploy> There's my first crash all of the wikis
My favorite part of that stressful mistake was being reminded that the entire world had not ended:
2014-04-08 18:23:47 <manybubbles> so I told my wife we broke the internet. she told me facebook was working....