On 13 April 2012 04:52, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
During the 1.19 cycle, there were some namespace names that were changed
and then reverted shortly before deployment. We're about to deploy
1.20wmf1 to a lot of international wikis on Wednesday of next week, and I'm
a little worried that we may need to do a speedy revert again.
I'm worried about lots of stuff, this thing is near the bottom of that list.
Two concerns:
1. 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?
However, long time ago I talked with Tim who reverted the original
change. I also proposed a solution (post notifications to all affected
Wikipedias) [1] but got no comments on that. I decided to execute the
plan anyway [2] and we got positive feedback, negative feedback and no
feedback at all for some languages. For the negative feedback I did
some reverts [3,4].
There is always guaranteed to be someone who doesn't like the changes.
However, after our request for feedback I am pretty sure that we have
avoided the most unwanted changes. I'm assuming good faith for the
rest of the namespace changes.
2. 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
We should get this sorted out before we push on
Wednesday.
As far as I am concerned everything is fine and ready for deployment
-Niklas
[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
--
Niklas Laxström