2010/12/4 Robert Leverington robert@rhl.me.uk:
It is unclear to me whether the plan is to branch from the latest reviewed code or trunk HEAD
This was kind of overlooked by everyone in that discussion :(
, assuming the latter then I think that code review needs to be a part of the schedule as it is by far the most time consuming part of the process and presumably needs to be complete before a deployment.
Yes.
The schedule suggests an intial deployment in January, but my understanding is that even if there were no further commits it would still take until March for it to catch up with HEAD.
March has been mentioned by a few people now, and now you're even suggesting that /even with no further commits/ it would take that long. To me that seems overly pessimistic. The code review backlog in /trunk/phase3 was 775 revisions last time I checked (Saturday around 01:15 UTC). It shouldn't take 3 months to catch up with that.
Of course "less than 3 months" doesn't necessarily mean it'll be a manageable amount of time, and there's WMF-deployed extensions to consider too. So I do think we should look at where the unreviewed revs are concentrated; if it turns out they're mostly recent, that'd be a strong case for moving the branch point into the past.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)