Hi folks,
The first Wikimedia Café meetup was surprisingly well attended with four
people. Also, a few people contacted me off list to express interest. So, I
will host another Café meetup next month, again one hour before the
WMF-hosted Wikimedia Activities Meeting. If you're interested in the
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:55 PM Derk-Jan Hartman
wrote:
>
> While I think these regular switches are a very good idea, from an outside
> perspective I do have to question a process that puts a significant plug in
> the velocity of various teams working on major projects (esp. in a time of
> year
Wiki creation relies on experienced deployers and ops, I would expect they
all know.
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, 16:49 Pine W, wrote:
> A couple of additional points came to mind.
>
> 1. Blocking the creation of new wikis sounds like it could be a big deal.
> I know little about the process for
A couple of additional points came to mind.
1. Blocking the creation of new wikis sounds like it could be a big deal. I
know little about the process for getting new wikis approved and launched, but
I hope that the folks who are regularly involved in these processes have been
advised of the
+1 to DJ's question about timing. Also, one might wish to be mindful of the
number of recent trains that were supposed to be boring but involved
interesting surprises; this makes me wonder whether trains that one thinks will
be boring are actually OK in this circumstance even if they turn out
While I think these regular switches are a very good idea, from an outside
perspective I do have to question a process that puts a significant plug in
the velocity of various teams working on major projects (esp. in a time of
year that could probably be seen as one of the most productive). What
Let me explain the rationale of the bellow request for clarification:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:30 PM MA wrote:
> Hello:
>
> >For the duration of the switchover (1 month), deployers are kindly
> >requested to refrain from large db schema changes and avoid deploying
> >any kind of new feature
