On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:03, Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com> wrote:

Srikanth, While I really appreciate the efforts you and Bala did with
the testing and reporting bugs, this kind of comments really
disappoint us. You are aware that the we were working round the clock
to fix all the bugs within hours and we wrote the complete details in
report.

The comments were for the entire duration of last few months, several debates. 2 days of firefighting doesn't mean that whatever that was done from start were correct and we pointing out mistakes is wrong. If you cant accept negative feedback, no room for improvement.

Safeguarding from a horrible deployment? Could you please
stop exaggerating things? We did expect bugs when we do this kind of
large scale deployment with too many languages, browsers, operating
systems and we addressed each of the bugs within hours. Some of these
bugs can be only detected when we expose the tool to a larger
audience. You are aware of that. All the open bugs now present are
are not in our control - Browser bugs and Fonts bug, we disabled them
for time being.

When I meant safeguarding, I meant safeguarding from a horrible launch. It doesn't matter if the bugs are font related / browser bugs, when something goes live on Wikipedia and made *default* to millions of readers, it has to be SOLID. No compromises on quality. Many Indic wikipedias are probably also technology resource for the language itself. We need to maintain the quality. With all the work done, I would still say its a horrible launch, if the hinting issue exist in Windows XP for atleast 4 languages even though its beyond your control to fix it. Didn't we ask not to make to the feature mandatory and default (which was very much in your control) and didn't we debate it over for days? Lets not go back doing useless post-mortem since we don't think there are no plans of rollback / discussion on those topics, how much ever merit was there on our side. I would still claim we safeguarded Tamil Wikipedia and not think as exaggeration at all. "Dark Launch" is a win-win and I suggest you do everything possible to have it for future releases.

Please be constructive and help us as you were doing. We deserve some
appreciation for what we are doing.