On 08/11/2007, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
- Everything is rolled out live. Pages break left and right. Large
complaint threads are started on the Village Pump, people fix it, and everyone forgets about it. Developers get a warm fuzzy feeling for having finally succeeded at destroying Parser.php.
Before this, step 5.5) A bunch of bots run over all the wikis fixing corner-case wikitext that's fixable - changing stuff that works only in the old parser to stuff that works in old and new.
And step 6.5) A bunch of bots run over all the wikis fixing the stuff that was missed in 5.5.
And step 6.6) the converter script for the next version of MediaWiki includes a text fixer.
- d.