2010/6/8 Rob Lanphier <robla(a)robla.net>et>:
One idea I'd like to float: we might be able to
reconcile the messages
between the two branches, and using the "Mediawiki:" namespace to override
the messages we need to override (pretty much what we're already doing). I
have no idea just how awful that would be, and there may be other risks I'm
not accounting for, but I'm throwing that idea out there just in case it
might work.
For a one-wiki rollout, this would work. However, it's probably more
complex than just updating the software across the board and crossing
our fingers.
We really don't want to delay the launch at this
point, but we also don't
want to break any of the other production wikis in the process of rolling
this out to
en.wikipedia.org, so any ideas you all have on risk
mitigation/minimization would be greatly appreciated.
IMO you should ascertain with some degree of confidence that your
updated code won't break vanilla FR setups (using a labs wiki or
something), then just roll it out.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)