Hello Niklas and all, <quote name="Niklas Laxström" date="2013-03-21" time="11:55:24 +0200"> > I've seen a couple of instances where changes to MediaWiki are blocked > until someone informs the community.
Just so I know, could you share these? Either on list or in a private email to me if you don't want to cause more stress in a sensitive situation. But, generally, on this issue, I think we need to make this better. I have some ideas that I want to work on, but, I've been mostly getting caught up on things thus far (I'm one month in now, pretty soon that excuse no longer flies!). For one thing, I'm the one who condenses down all of the changes that happened in a wmfXX release to the most important ones, see, eg: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf12 (NOTE: that page doesn't yet include the reverts we did to fix the Page Move issue.) Now, here's the problem with the current process around the creation of that page: 0) On every other Monday morning (pacific time) Reedy picks a commit on master and says "right here, this is wmfXX." 1) That gets deployed to our phase 1 list of wikis (mediawiki.org, test., test2.) 2) The Release Notes page for that wmfXX is created with the list of changes. 3) I then start my review of it. This usually takes me about an hour of concerted effort. There are a lot of changes and I'm unfamiliar with about 100% of them (some bugs I may be aware of, but not all). 4) I update that release notes page with the important/breaking changes. 5) Now, from here, what should I/we do? There is now a reasonably good list of important changes for a specific wmfXX release, with references to bug reports (usually). I don't know EXACTLY which things will be important to various communities/wikis and I don't want to be noisy about things. So, your suggestions welcome if I should do something and what after that release notes page is done. Now, this is just one part of the process, yes. But it is one that I have a large hand in. Official X.XX releases of MW are more in Mark H's hands, but I don't think that's the situation you're talking about here. Thanks, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
