Deployment Process
Pre-Deployment
- Consult with volunteers (@Whatamidoing-WMF)
- Finalize blocking issues (@ppelberg)
- Ensure edits made with the New Discussion Tool on mobile can be differentiated from those made on desktop. This is relevant to T277825#7641861.
- Determine deployment date (@ppelberg)
- Pre-deployment QA (@Ryasmeen)
- Deploy tool via config change (Editing Engineering)
Post-Deployment
- Publicize feature's availability at relevant wikis (@Whatamidoing-WMF)
- Update mediawiki project page(s) announcing deployment (@ppelberg)
- Post-deployment QA (@Ryasmeen)
- Update mw:On-wiki communication + This Slack thread (@ppelberg)
- Notify @Johan that T281544 has been resolved so that mw:On-wiki communication can be updated
NOTE: prior to deployment, we'll need to ensure that, in aggregate, ~2,480 people are using mobile web talk pages each month at the wikis we are planning to deploy to in order to have enough scale to complete the analyses we have planned in T298058 and T298065. More details in per T298271#7641238.