Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:58 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: >> To put it another way, if the code backlog were eliminated today, I think >> the exact same frustrations and annoyances would exist among the developer >> community because the code would sit reviewed, but un-deployed. When we say >> "the biggest issue is a huge code review backlog," it's misleading. The >> reality is that the biggest issue is a huge code review _and deployment_ >> backlog. > > I don't see any reason why deployment would lag far behind review. > Review takes a lot of time, deployment is quick. We'd just need a lot > of people on hand to do damage control when stuff breaks unexpectedly > after such a huge deployment.
You don't see any reason? Simply, because it does. How did we get into the current situation? >> Broadly, I don't see any reason why it's beneficial to engage in Great >> Reveal-style code updates to the site. There are thousands of >> uncontroversial revisions already reviewed that could be deployed today. > > I don't think it would be wise at all to try deploying something less > than trunk. Deploying trunk means we can commit any fixes to trunk > and only trunk. Branching some earlier point and deploying that would > mean we have to maintain the branch. Plus, we'd have to have several > large deployments instead of one giant one. Better to have one giant > deployment so that there's at most one point of massive user > inconvenience, and then stick to only small ones from then on. One idea floated today in #mediawiki was to make a new branch up to the revision before ResourceLoader was added (grep "branch right before that").[1] This would allow a very sizeable number of revisions to be in a branch (from April to August, roughly) but also allow deployment and code updates to move forward sooner. Sometimes the easiest way to eat an elephant isn't to try in one bite. Any thoughts on creating a branch sooner than when ResourceLoader is ready? MZMcBride [1] http://toolserver.org/~mwbot/logs/%23mediawiki/20101018.txt _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
