https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41428

--- Comment #11 from Jarry1250 <[email protected]> 2012-10-29 00:43:40 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> A revert of a particular commit does not roll back the entire MediaWiki
> platform to an earlier point in time, and is therefore not trivially safe to
> deploy.

I don't follow. MediaWiki was a constant here. Let's assume the previous
version of the EventLogger was known to be good (or rather known to not be as
bad). Then I would infer that rolling back was both trivial and relatively
safe.* For MediaWiki as a whole, maybe not, but as we know we *want* to be at a
point where rolling back is not a big deal, even if we're not there yet.

> The testing story does get better, though -- the TestSwarm setup integrates
> with both QUnit and Jenkins to automate the execution of test suites across a
> spectrum of browsers.  It would have flagged this particular problem.

Yay :)

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* It occurs to me that I am yet to see an actual revert done on the production
cluster directly, rather than reverting in the repo and then deploying a new
master. So I could be wrong here.

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