On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2011/5/29 HW waihorace@yahoo.com.hk
Dear all,
As of a member of Chinese Wikipedia community, we have submitted a bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29114%C2%A0on requestion for adding LQT to Chinese Wikipedia. However, it seems that it is on hold. Due to a large amount of comment on Chinese Wikipedia Village Pump, we need it as soon as possible. When will it be enable? Or, need to wait for central action?
I also asked to enable LiquidThreads on the Hebrew Wikinews [1] and it was closed as RESOLVED LATER, with the explanation "LQT isn't going to be deployed anywhere new atm".
Let me clarify what's going on here.
In February, I made the decision, along with Alolita, to implement a new backend for LiquidThreads. This decision was made because the original backend had a number of intractable problems that were causing bugs across Wikimedia projects. You can see the document I wrote about the backend updates for further information [1].
At that time, the issue of existing and further LiquidThreads deployments was raised. The decision that I made, in consultation with the remainder of the technical staff was that, while I would attempt to resolve serious bugs with LiquidThreads, we would not be deploying LiquidThreads to any further wikis before the backend updates were complete. This decision was made so that the time I spend working on LiquidThreads is focussed on moving the redesign forward.
As has been stated in this thread, there's little point testing code that's in the process of being rewritten.
Currently, the schedule calls for staged deployments of the rewrite between early July and Wikimania [2]. There's been some slippage on the schedule, but there's also a substantial amount of slack in June, and I think Wikimania would be a reasonable timeframe to expect a test deployment on a number of small projects, of which some will necessarily be in right to left languages.
I hope this clarifies things for you.
—Andrew
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads/WMF_project_informatio... [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads/WMF_project_informatio...
-- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation agarrett@wikimedia.org