Last modified: 2012-05-03 07:25:55 UTC
A project has been created to create up a dupe of the production cluster on the WMF labs infrastructure. The aim is to have a laboratory closely tracking production to conduct experiment, test out new extensions or verify a change is not going to break the site. At first the project was known as simply 'beta' which is probably not descriptive enough, then as 'deployment preparation' which is a bit too long when you want to refers to it. This bug is about finding a better, concise name. A nice acronym would be great.
How does it block a fix where beta.wikimedia can't redirect to deployment.wikimedia, it's completely domain unrelated
Are you refering to domain.wmflabs.org or domain.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org where domain is what you want to change? if it's first, then it doesn't block it
Heh, i remember when we created the project deployment-prep and there was some discussion about it being quite long, but then we took it anyways because at least long names are more descriptive than "deplprep" or other short versions we could think of.
oh yes, let's call it debepreta :D
How about "stage"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staging_%28websites%29
or maybe just test since we test stuff
or go the Debian way and have stable / testing / unstable and release names, but replace the Toy Story-naming scheme with something fun and wmf related :)
Once we have agreed upon a name, the pending puppet class in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/5790 will need an update.
I've been calling it "betalabs" since our last conversation on the subject. "Stage" is not the right name, since that's what we should rename "test.wikipedia.org". I'm strongly opposed to any use of the word "deployment" in a new name. Having people say they found "bugs in deployment" is awful. "test" is way overloaded at this point. Maybe once "test.wp.org" and "test2.wp.org" have been renamed and retired a while we can go there. Not before then, though. (fwiw, "test2" should be renamed "rc" or "relcand" for "release candidate". "deployment candidate" would be more technically correct, but confusing. "lastcall" or "lasttest" might be alternate names).
Peter, if "betalabs" is fine to you lets be it :-]
What's wrong with beta?
"beta" is fine for the domain name. I will likely say "beta labs" in many places because I will want to distinguish it from "1.20 beta 1" for example. I would prefer people say "there's a bug in beta labs" rather than "there's a bug in beta" because we will always also need to refer to releases as "beta".
All agreed to use « betalabs »
