2010/6/5 Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org:
A couple of different ways of going about it:
- Deploy FlaggedRevs, but then drop back to FlaggedRevs_alpha if there's
obvious breakage on one of the other wikis we can't fix quickly 2. Deploy FlaggedRevs_alpha from the start
Right now, we really don't want to delay deployment, since delays beget delays. Thoughts on a preferred strategy?
I don't think strategy #1 makes any sense at all. What I'd do is: * Update FlaggedRevs_alpha to the desired state and check it on the labs wikis * Switch wikis from FlaggedRevs to FlaggedRevs_alpha * The old FlaggedRevs dir now sits around not being used. Leave it like this for a while so we can easily switch wikis back to it * After some time, update FlaggedRevs to be identical to FlaggedRevs_alpha, and switch the wikis back, so we don't drag this _alpha thing along forever.
The rationale behind this is that FlaggedRevs is a known-good state more so than FlaggedRevs_alpha.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)