On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is there anything specific in the communications involved that you found was problematic, other than a failure to include a backlink in the
initial
revert?
I think this entire thing was a big failure in basic software development and systems administration. If MobileFrontend is so tightly coupled with the desktop login form, that is a problem with MobileFrontend.
As noted already in the thread, the commit was broken for non-JS users as well as for mobile; it's not a deficiency in MobileFrontend specifically.
In addition, the fact that a practically random code change was launched into production an hour later without so much as a test...
Aha -- this seems to strike to the heart of the matter. Would you agree this incident has more to do with problems with the branch deployment scheduling than with commit warring?
-- brion
That's the kind of thing that
gets people fired at other companies.
But apparently I'm the only person that thinks this, so the WMF can feel free to do what it wants.
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