On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 10 March 2015 at 10:33, Bernd Sitzmann <bernd@wikimedia.org> wrote:
A few questions for you:

No. One of the primary objectives for doing this is so that we see what the pain points are of actually deploying this to production, to decide whether to make a further investment into the service. Deploying it to Beta Labs doesn't meet this objective at all.

+1.

So IMO the thing you are actually testing is the *process* of getting this into production, not the software itself. Putting it in beta is part of the process of getting it into production, but as such is useless if it stops there. Beta is just a place to test the software itself, and the most risky thing here is not the software itself, but ops/tech-community/core acceptance of doing things like this. Only getting it to production will help shake it out, for you and other teams that follow in your wake :)

There's a lot of unknowns along that path, so good luck :)