Lars Aronsson wrote:
After I heard about Liquid Threads in Berlin in April 2010, I immediately asked for it to be activated on sv.wikisource. This request took 4 months. A similar request for sv.wiktionary has still not been granted because it is "better to wait" for some future version.
Now, during the 1.17 upgrade, the namespaces Thread: and Summary: disappeared from sv.wikisource and this was reported on February 16, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27533 Still after two weeks, no response has been given. The central discussion / village pump is still broken.
This is unacceptable.
Looking at the bug history, the Bugmeister updated the bug on February 19. I think in situations like this, the Bugmeister needs to be responsible for escalating these issues to the appropriate people, mostly as the Bugmeister is the person who will have read these bugs and will understand the impact. Marking the bugs as "critical" or "shell" is helpful, to a point. However, in cases where sites become unusable, people need to be e-mailed, poked on IRC, etc. until the problem is resolved. It isn't acceptable to have sites in this state (to say nothing of the damage these types of issues do to LiquidThreads adoption).
MZMcBride