On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Alex "Mr.Z-man" <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 5/31/11, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's been tons of discussion about what is an ideal release schedule > for > > us (probably literally if you printed it out at 12pt on standard copy > > paper). At this point I think we are balancing between fighting the bad > > habits that got us into the 1.17 rut, and trying to give our engineering > > team enough time to do significant work (rather than spending 1 day a > week > > pushing code). > > One issue is that "time spent deploying" does not appear to be > independent of "time between deployments." If it always took a day to > deploy new code, that would be a good argument in favor of more time > between deployments. But in practice, the more time that passes > without pushing code to the site, the longer it takes to complete the > deployment. Spending a week deploying every other month doesn't really > save much time over spending a day every week. > I'd actually consider it pretty ideal to spend a day every week deploying updates, gathering feedback, and making fixes. Rather than an argument in favor of longer cycles, I'd consider that an argument in favor of shorter cycles! -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
