<quote name="Risker" date="2013-12-05" time="13:55:42 -0500">
On 5 December 2013 13:08, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com wrote:
The sites are updated weekly, sometimes with additional deployments inbetween the scheduled ones. Constant sitenotice would be a bad idea.
I suggest you subscribe to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News , which is an also weekly newsletter summarising new features and important fixed bugs every week, as well as providing links to the detailed change logs.
Not a bad idea, although every time someone says "xx needs to be communicated better", someone else responds with "there's a mailing list for that!" So far, based on recommendations from *this* mailing list, I've subscribed to half a dozen other lists that, generally speaking, didn't give me any more information than I would have received here. (Wikitech Ambassadors? Who's sending anything there? Is it useful anymore?)
I am, weekly, of all planned deployments.
See: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-November/0004...
Also, Chad/Nik do regularly for search updates that are happening.
It is far from a ghost town and was deemed useful they last time I asked for feedback: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/000342...
Greg