On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 15/11/10 06:58, Jack Phoenix wrote:
The deployment queue is already long enough and
people who are reviewing
code for Wikimedia deployment are having a hard time catching up; I don't
want to make their work any more difficult than it already is, I just want
to have my extensions reviewed to make sure that no glaring errors or
security vulnerabilities slip in.
I think that if you want a favour, you should politely ask the
specific person you want it from, rather than complaining about a
general lack of generosity.
I didn't read Jack's comment as a complaint about anyone's generosity
(though admittedly, it's a little tough to parse that sentence). I
read it as acknowledging the fact(?) that the review queue is too long
to get through without marking some extensions/etc as "deferred".
After discussing this with Jack on IRC[1], I encouraged him to send
this email.
This seems like a real problem. If Jack wants someone to review his
code, should he simply move it back from "deferred" to "new"? What
criteria are used to mark something as "deferred" in the first place?
I'm assuming it's currently standard practice to mark extensions that
aren't slated for deployment by WMF as "deferred"; do I have that
right?
Rob
[1]
http://toolserver.org/~mwbot/logs/%23mediawiki/20101112.txt
...starting at "[17:47:55] <ashley> speaking of things in SVN vs.
things used by WMF..."