Finalize Replying deployment strategy
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	Dec 12 2019, 7:22 PM

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This tasks involves the work with creating a deployment strategy that will help us accomplish the goals listed in the "Goals" section below.

Goals

Validate product direction
Identify edge cases
Do not make a bad first impression on unsuspecting contributors
Do not overwhelm the team with feedback
Ensure volunteers have ample time to share input about interventions that are being proposed

Deployment plan

The current draft can be found in the slides titled "Deployment: target wikis" and "Deployment: test wikis.": Talk Pages/Replying/Deployment strategy

Done

We have a plan that outlines how (What wikis? Opt in/out? etc.) the different versions (T235923 and T235593) of the replying workflow will be deployed

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Open	None	T233443 [Epic] Reply Tool
Resolved	ppelberg	T235923 Replies v1.0: release replying to specific comments
Resolved	ppelberg	T236951 Deploy Replying v1.0 to target wikis
Resolved	ppelberg	T240607 Finalize Replying deployment strategy

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ppelberg created this task.Dec 12 2019, 7:22 PM

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Snapshot of what we have discussed so far:

Step	Wiki(s)	Details	Notes
Step 0	partner wikis	Opt-in as a Beta Feature
Step 1	partner wikis	Opt-out as a Beta Feature
Step 2	partner wikis	Opt-out as a Preference
Step 3	deploy to additional TBD wikis	TBD

During today's staff meeting, @MMiller_WMF raised the following idea we ought to explore:

How might the Version 1.0 of the new replying prototype be deployed so more experienced contributors could experiment with it on their home wikis without having to worry their experimentation will affect other contributors?

In T240607#5761818, @ppelberg wrote:

During today's staff meeting, @MMiller_WMF raised the following idea we ought to explore:

How might the Version 1.0 of the new replying prototype be deployed so more experienced contributors could experiment with it on their home wikis without having to worry their experimentation will affect other contributors?

Immediate-term: we are conducting pre-deployment testing on localized instances of beta.wmflabs.org. See: T242450.

Medium-term: per T243621#5849561, volunteers and our team will have the ability to try DiscussionTools on specific talk pages before DiscussionTools they are enabled for the entire wiki.

ppelberg edited projects, added Editing-team (Q3 2019-2020 Kanban Board); removed Editing-team, VisualEditor.Feb 5 2020, 1:24 AM

ppelberg renamed this task from How should DiscussionTools be released? to How should new Replying workflow be released?.Feb 5 2020, 1:28 AM

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Update: 4-Feb

Our current plan can be seen in the slides titled "Deployment: target wikis" and "Deployment: test wikis."

Limited access for now: Talk Pages/Replying/Deployment strategy

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 5 2020, 1:32 AM

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ppelberg renamed this task from How should new Replying workflow be released? to Finalize Replying deployment strategy.Feb 10 2020, 3:33 AM

ppelberg mentioned this in T244683: Make target wikis aware of replying deployment strategy.Feb 10 2020, 3:43 AM

ppelberg added a parent task: T236951: Deploy Replying v1.0 to target wikis.Feb 11 2020, 3:24 PM

ppelberg edited projects, added OWC2020 (OWC2020 Replying 1.0); removed OWC2020.

ppelberg moved this task from Needs Prioritization to Required before Release on the OWC2020 (OWC2020 Replying 1.0) board.

We have finalized our deployment strategy. The next step is to communicate this on-wiki. To follow the progress on that work, please see: T244869.

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 12 2020, 2:27 AM

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