Hi Niklas, Thanks for the detailed response. I think you addressed a lot of my concerns.
Comments inline: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Niklas Laxström <[email protected]>wrote: > > Two concerns: > > 1. Do the new namespace names have community consensus? What I've heard > > though the grapevine is that yes, there has been an effort to get > > consensus, but confirmation of that would be nice. > > Since when is consensus required for software or localisation changes? > As was pointed out by Strainu, namespace changes are a bigger deal than most. That said, I'm satisfied that the appropriate effort was based on the links you gave me, so thank you! > 2. For each namespace that was changed, was there a corresponding alias > > set up? Rumor has it that there might be a few cases where that isn't > the > > case. > > Here are some facts instead: > * Only reported issue I am aware of is at [1], which doesn't look > problematic to me > * Tim who originally reverted the commit approved it again [2] > * I and Siebrand have double checked the commit > Perfect, thanks! > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/107309 > [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/3318 > [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/4390 > [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/4648 ^ These links were really helpful, thanks! I'm checking in on this in an abundance of caution, since the last time around, there was disagreement about the level of diligence needed. Sorry if this feels like I'm jerking you around; I'm just double checking for known problems from last deployment. Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
