Speaking of 20% code review time, I've cleared my Tuesdays and stuck
reminders in my calendar so I don't lose track of it in coming weeks. ;)
Please poke me during PST office hours with patches, bugs, and commits that
need review or cleanup!
-- brion
On Nov 21, 2011 6:41 PM, "Rob Lanphier" <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brion Vibber
<brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
1.18 hasn't been released yet, so presumably
we're still concentrating on
solidifying the 1.18 release in CR. Per previous discussions about the
1.17
release delays I would have expected this to have
gone *really fast* and
been out the door around mid-October, within a few days of going live on
the main sites.
/me reminds Brion IRL just how nutty mid-October was for WMF tech staff.
:)
It's also Sam's first release, so it's taking a bit longer than if Tim
were 100% focused on it. But the good news is that we're nearly
there.
It appears we have gotten to a "release
candidate" as of last Friday,
which
is a good sign; is a final .0 release slated yet?
We would probably push it out this week, but there's a security bug
we're taking a look at.
In the meantime we've got no upcoming 1.19
deployment pressure and nobody
assigned to ongoing code review, so there's nothing to compel further
action -- it's not surprising to me at all that it's falling behind.
Brion and I spoke in real life right after this, which is highly
unfair to the rest of you, but it was really efficient for us. Here's
the gist:
* I've already started a campaign to remind people of the 20% policy
(
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/20_percent )
* I'll also be sending out a revised target date for 1.19, based on
looking at the updated numbers and how quickly we reviewed in some of
our more determined review sprints, figuring in some time for a little
regression during the holidays.
* More people from Platform Engineering will be reinforcing that we
want the next release to happen soon, even if that means other things
(e.g. Git migration) lag as a result.
Not a perfect answer, but I think we're improving with each release.
This time around, one key difference will be clearing the review
backlog before branching, which, with any luck, means less backporting
hell.
Rob
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