Google Code-in

Problem

When a maintainer wants to deploy WatchTranslations to production, the only way how to do that is to manually pull the sourcecode and then restart the web service.

Proposed solution

Write a bash script that would:

• Pull the sourcecode
• Run database migrations
• Restart webservice (you can read how to do that at Wikitech)
• Have support for several branches
  • For testing version of this tool, it can be useful to use another branch than master. The script should read ~/branch and use branch specified there. If the file doesn't exist, the script should use master.

Student is expected to upload a patch against labs/tools/watch-translations repository at Wikimedia Gerrit. Student should claim Phabricator task while claiming task at the GCI site.

Materials

• Production version of the tool
• Codebase
• Learn how to use Gerrit