Thanks for all the input so far.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 2:41 PM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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].
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.
[1]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Deployments/Holding_the_train