2011/2/13 MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com:
As I recall, it wasn't part of the first set of guinea pigs in case something went horribly wrong and broke the site. Because mediawiki.org has the code review tools, having mediawiki.org down when people are trying to fix deployment problems would itself be a major problem. (It's turtles all the way down.)
This is exactly why I said we should not use mw.org as one of our initial guinea pigs, yes. However, since 1.17 doesn't seem to have a catastrophic impact on the other dozen or so wikis it's running on, including meta, I think we can go ahead and switch it over now. If CodeReview breaks, we can just switch it back.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)