Closing the Loop:

Follow-ups from Previous Conferences

Daniel Scherzer

Agenda

• Random conversations / hallway track
• “Orchestration with Puppet” (Spring 2024, Portland, Oregon)
• “Considerations when targeting LTS releases” (Fall 2024, Vienna, Austria)
• “Handling Database Updates” (Spring 2025, Sandusky, Ohio)

Hallway Track: Jira Integration

• Announcing SummaryToJiraComment
• Mention a task in your edit summary (or multiple tasks)
• Via the API, comments are added to your task with links
• Edit summaries no longer included, so only “leak” is the page title

Hallway Track: Extension Management

• Announcing WikiExtensions
• Special:Extensions to check status and updates
• Limited to extensions from git
• Local changes detected automatically

Spring 2024: Orchestration with Puppet

• Still in use
• Agent-less Ansible: less exposure
• Loading dependencies with r10k and gem

Fall 2024: Considerations when targeting LTS releases

Customer support - bundled features

• 1.44: CheckUser (bundled), TemplateStyles (bundled), Interwiki (merged)
• 1.44+: Multi blocks
• 1.45: Built in notifications
• 1.45: Vue content model
• 1.45: {{#contentmodel:canonical|page}}
• 1.46: Watchlist labels

Fall 2024: Considerations when targeting LTS releases

Extension support - breaking changes from stable 1.43

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Fall 2024: Considerations when targeting LTS releases

#[\Deprecated] limitations

• PHP 8.4: Functions, methods, class constants
• PHP 8.5: global compile-time constants

<?php

if ( version_compare( PHP_VERSION, '8.5.0', '>=' ) ) {

eval(

"#[\\Deprecated(message: 'use APCOND_FR_NEVERBLOCKED')]\n" .

'const APCOND_FR_NEVERBOCKED = 70822;'

);

} else {

define( 'APCOND_FR_NEVERBOCKED', 70822 );

}

var_dump( defined( 'APCOND_FR_NEVERBOCKED' ) );

var_dump( APCOND_FR_NEVERBOCKED );

Spring 2025: Handling Database Updates

• Previously: 1.31+
• Now: 1.9+
• Grateful to Ladsgroup for db-analyzor-tools
• Missing auto increment
• Missing rows for primary key ids

Thank you

Questions?