On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Happy-melon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >"Brion Vibber" <[email protected]> wrote in message > >news:[email protected]... > > > > Sing it, brother! We're getting *some* stuff through quicker within the > > deployment branches, but not nearly as much as we ought to. > > The fact that some things are *not* getting stuck in the CR quagmire is > part > of the *problem*, not the solution. The upper levels of the developer > hierarchy ***obviously know*** that the mainline CR process is > substantially > broken, BECAUSE ***THEY'RE NOT USING IT*** FOR THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO > THEM. That's not correct -- the same code review tools are being used to look over and comment on those things, AND THEN THE DAMN THING ACTUALLY GETS MERGED TO THE DEPLOYMENT BRANCH BY SOMEBODY AND PUSHED TO PRODUCTION BY SOMEBODY. It's that step 2 that's missing for everything else until the accumulated release pressure forces a system-wide update. The unavoidable implication of that observation is that the work of > the volunteer developers *DOESN'T* matter to them. Whether or not that > implication is correct (I have confidence that it's not) is irrelevant, the > fact that it's there is what's doing horrible damage to the MediaWiki > community. > -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
