Feedback for European SWAT window
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	hashar
	Aug 25 2016, 2:04 PM

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This task is intended to gather feedback for the first week of European SWAT deploy slot at 13:00 UTC.

This week conductors were @zeljkofilipin and @hashar with lot of help by @Dereckson at least on Monday (thanks for that).

As time allow, please copy paste the following questions template, feel free to skip some and add your own questions:

> What went well?

> What went bad?

> Do you feel confortable doing deploy yourselves?

> Alone, eg without assistance of release engineering

> How confortable are you with the X-Wikimedia-Debug extension and testing on mw1099?

> Is Google Hangouts a plus?

Thank you very much in advance.

Deployed patches

Monday

@Mattflaschen-WMF [REQUIRES SCRIPTS] [mediawiki-config] 305670 Set Flow as default for User talk on kabwiki (requires scripts which Matt will run when this is ready to deploy)

@Urbanecm
[config] 305777 Enable transwiki upload for tcywiki
[config] 305780 Remove old throttle rules

@Dereckson
[wmf.15] 305773 Fix unknown constant AS_HOOK_ERROR issue in ProofreadPage (task T143471)
[config] 305573 Restrict local upload on ar.wikipedia (task T142450)
[config] 304938 Enable WikidataPageBanner on ro.wikivoyage (task T142963)

@Addshore [config] 305012 Add Collection render note for articles & rdf2latex

@Amire80 [wmf.15] 305948 Compact Language Links: Apply toLowerCase when reading featured articles (task TT143527)

Tuesday

@Glaisher
[config] 305801 Enable T143073 debug log channel
[config] 306015 Remove English for all groups from $wgTranslateBlacklist
[config] 306162 Remove no longer relevant $wgTranslateTasks overrides

@Dereckson [wmf15] 306190 Run LinksDeletionUpdate after commit() in namespaceDupes.php

Wednesday

@Ladsgroup [config] 306419 Increase ORES threshold for enwiki
@MarcoAurelio [config] 305436 Fully disable uploads on mswiki (task T141227)

Thursday

@KartikMistry @Nikerabbit [wmf.15] [wmf.16] 306654 ext.uls.compactlinks: consistently normalize language codes

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T137970: Add a European mid-day SWAT window
Mentioned Here: T141227: Disable local uploads on ms.wikipedia.org (Malay Wikipedia)
T142450: create "uploader" permission in arwiki
T142963: Please enable WikidataPageBanner on ro.wikivoyage
T143073: Fatal error: Argument 1 passed to MessageHandle::__construct() must be an instance of Title, null given
T143471: Couldn't find constant ProofreadPage::AS_HOOK_ERROR in ProofreadPage::onEditFilterMergedContent

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hashar created this task.Aug 25 2016, 2:04 PM

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hashar mentioned this in T137970: Add a European mid-day SWAT window.Aug 25 2016, 2:05 PM

zeljkofilipin awarded a token.Aug 25 2016, 2:13 PM

This worked well for Language team, not too late, not too early.

It was super helpful

What went well?

Everything went well, at least on my side.

What went bad?

I can't remember anything.

How confortable are you with the X-Wikimedia-Debug extension and testing on mw1099?

On my side (patch owner which request a deployement), it's fairly easy
to use, although I'm not sure what checkboxes should I be enabling so
I end enabling all.

Is Google Hangouts a plus?

No. I'd prefer to stick in #wikimedia-operations as much as
possible. Google hangouts should be optional for the users that want
to do that, but I'm not confortable with an application that doesn't
work if I don't give it access to my camera and microphone, even if
later those accesses ain't required (and if so, they shouldn't be
asked).

As a side note, I'd like to thank the SWAT deployers for their work.

Regards.

Krenair subscribed.Aug 25 2016, 9:22 PM

What went well?

It went smoothly for the most part originally, and in the end, everything was resolved.

What went bad?

No incorrect deployment steps, but a small unforeseen issue (user talk bot interaction).

Do you feel confortable doing deploy yourselves?

Yes. While having more people around helps, I am confident that I can resolve things on my own if needed (with potential follow up involving others later).