Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Essential work/2026-04-03
Essential Work
[edit]Weekly essential work update for 2026-W14
Shipped
[edit]- GitLab images for production k8s route through our policy checker—JWT authorizor. This week, the authorizor's policy was re-written to be easier to read, and to check itself on startup.
Blockers
[edit]- N/A
Lessons Learned
[edit]- Through a one-time, mass abandon of patches in Gerrit that was subsequently restored, we learned that there is some appetite among community members for patch curation. This jibes with signal from the developer satisfaction survey that it is difficult for community members to get review of their code.
Community collab
[edit]- Purging the raw data from the developer satisfaction survey as we've reached our retention deadline
Other
[edit]Deployment of MediaWiki 1.46.0-wmf.22
The only interesting blocker this week was a regression in OAUTH that could have broadly broken logins for the apps had it not been caught early on cawiki T422027.
- MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.22
- 351 Patches ▂▃█▆▁
- 1 Rollbacks ▁▁▁▁█
- 0 Days of delay ▄▄▄▄▄
- 4 Blockers ▄██▁▇