FWIW, I think the Babel bug was waiting for several days for review from
Niklas, the extension owner, who wasn't at wikimania. But the folks who
ended up taking action and doing the revert we're at wikimania -- I think
it's a general matter of lack of communication during wikimania, with folks
distracted and assuming someone else is responsible, rather than a specific
"X person is at location Y". Wikimania just disrupts normal communications
and work patterns.
--scott
(To be clear, I'm not trying to pass blame, I'm just pointing out that the
disruption is not as simple of who is where or whether "enough" people are
at home.)
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 4:42 PM Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
<quote name="C. Scott Ananian"
date="2018-07-23" time="21:47:25 +0200">
Deployments during the week of wikimania are
always tough. I'm surprised
we even tried to do that this year.
There is/was sufficient coverage from both RelEng and SRE so there
wasn't an issue of site outage without available people to respond. IOW,
no one from RelEng nor SRE was attending Wikimania (sadly).
There is the issue of not getting quick feedback and resolution on UBN!
bugs from attendees at the conference, though. (This was obviously
dependent on who was at the conference and only manifested itself in a
couple cases.)
Greg
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