On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Yes, it does. Unless the entire branch has a serious problem (500s or major caching problems, etc.), we don't generally switch the entire branch back.
That means the only option is fix or revert a commit. The general rule is to do changes in master before cherry-picking to the branch.
What you're saying is that the software development process for MediaWiki is so tightly coupled with the operations deployment process, that development has to be held up because of problems in operations. That's a problem.
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science