On 03/12/2013 04:43 PM, Chris McMahon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Matthew Flaschen > <mflasc...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> >> In the case of the GettingStarted extension v2, we used a feature branch >> because it was a user-facing change that took a few weeks to get ready >> for deployment. Because it was user-facing, there were interactions, >> and we wanted to test it, we wanted to do it in one shot. >> > > If there were a convenient mechanism to do it, this is a great example of > something I would like to see enabled on beta labs during development but > disabled in production until ready.
The problem is, gating can become a maintenance burden when you're making larger changes. You have a long strings of code in if/else blocks, sometimes necessary files. In such cases, I think branching might be better. In our case, we tested on http://toro.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page . If it were considered alright to test branches on Beta labs, that would have been an option. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
