Thanks for all the input so far.
Jon, I think you're misunderstanding the point of the "No Deployment on Friday" policy.
I
don't think I'm misunderstanding the policy? I'm talking explicitly about high priority issues UI regressions, not unbreak now (ie. site is still functional but styled incorrectly e.g. imagine a link is the wrong color). I've used Friday deployments historically, but only for really really bad issues.
To give an example, if an
icon is visually overlapping text I don't consider that an UBN, I consider that
unfortunate. If the icon overlap is on the edit icon and that's not
clickable, definitely UBN and I'm happy to go the extra lengths to get a
Friday patch out.
I understand the Friday
is a buffer, but it's not a great buffer, particularly now at the
Wikimedia foundation most people observe "Silent Fridays", and many
people in teams that are involved in decision making work in different
timezones. Side note what constitutes a UBN UI regression is being
discussed on the talk page [1].
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Regarding Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia, the other Amir said it well, I
don't think I have much to add beside the fact that I have personally
seen them finding major issues before they hit all Wikipedia languages
many times, more than I can count.
Apologies
if I didn't make myself clear, but it seems I didn't given both Amir's
comments. I am very happy that we have these, and my question was not why do we have them, but rather why do we only have 2.
I want more of them and every time I've asked why we don't have more,
I've been told it's a community decision and that seems odd to me.