2010/6/8 Rob Lanphier <[email protected]>:
> One idea I'd like to float:  we might be able to reconcile the messages
> between the two branches, and using the "Mediawiki:" namespace to override
> the messages we need to override (pretty much what we're already doing).  I
> have no idea just how awful that would be, and there may be other risks I'm
> not accounting for, but I'm throwing that idea out there just in case it
> might work.
>
For a one-wiki rollout, this would work. However, it's probably more
complex than just updating the software across the board and crossing
our fingers.

> We really don't want to delay the launch at this point, but we also don't
> want to break any of the other production wikis in the process of rolling
> this out to en.wikipedia.org, so any ideas you all have on risk
> mitigation/minimization would be greatly appreciated.
>
IMO you should ascertain with some degree of confidence that your
updated code won't break vanilla FR setups (using a labs wiki or
something), then just roll it out.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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