Hi Niklas,
Thanks for the detailed response. I think you addressed a lot of my concerns.
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.comwrote:
Two concerns:
- Do the new namespace names have community consensus? What I've heard
though the grapevine is that yes, there has been an effort to get consensus, but confirmation of that would be nice.
Since when is consensus required for software or localisation changes?
As was pointed out by Strainu, namespace changes are a bigger deal than most. That said, I'm satisfied that the appropriate effort was based on the links you gave me, so thank you!
- For each namespace that was changed, was there a corresponding alias
set up? Rumor has it that there might be a few cases where that isn't
the
case.
Here are some facts instead:
- Only reported issue I am aware of is at [1], which doesn't look
problematic to me
- Tim who originally reverted the commit approved it again [2]
- I and Siebrand have double checked the commit
Perfect, thanks!
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/107309 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/3318 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/4390 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/4648
^ These links were really helpful, thanks!
I'm checking in on this in an abundance of caution, since the last time around, there was disagreement about the level of diligence needed. Sorry if this feels like I'm jerking you around; I'm just double checking for known problems from last deployment.
Rob