Followup -- I've conflated "pushing" and "releasing" in my post, but anyway I believe it's mostly the same circle of users who do both.
On 5/31/11 10:35 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > On 5/31/11 10:03 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > >> It's my expectation that this will always fluctuate, never reach anything >> resembling a stable rhythm, and that whether that's good or bad, that >> is and >> will continue to be reality. > > I understand how you feel, but that is unnecessarily pessimistic. > > A lot of other projects of equal or greater size and complexity manage > to release much more frequently. And there are just as many voices > tugging in different directions. > > So we know that the solution exists. We just have not taken the right > steps to achieve that solution. > > >> Any ideas? > > Well, AFAIK our bottleneck is reviewing. I'm unaware of any concrete > steps that have been taken to get a scalable reviewing system happening. > I'm not saying nothing's been done, it's just that I've never seen > anyone say "okay, here's the plan". > > Maybe this sounds like I'm volunteering for it, and I guess I would, but > it seems to me that the current users who can push have to come up with > a system that *they* trust. Whatever bright idea I have is going to go > down in flames if Tim et al. aren't fully committed to it and adequate > sacrifices are made in other areas to adjust to a new system. If pushing > more frequently isn't a priority for these users (or they are unable to > find the time to fix the current system) then I don't know what to do > either. > > Are we all in deadlock or something? Are the users who can push waiting > from some proposals/work from the rest of the community? > -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
