On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 22:46, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 3 February 2012 19:07, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The biggest risk for a February 13 deployment > [...] > >> The thread indicates the deployment will be on Feb 6, but the body >> indicates it will be on Feb 13. Perhaps a clarification? > > I'm not sure but my first guess is that deployment and branching are > not the same day. Maybe that allows for a week of extra QA/labs beta > tests? or some last minute fixes after branching?
That's exactly it. Branching is the first step along the way. We *could* conceivably branch really close to the 1.19 push to test2, but branching beforehand gives us a chance to have things a little closer to frozen for the final week before deploy. Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
