2010/6/5 Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
A couple of different ways of going about it:
1. 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)