[WikiEN-l] Flagged protection and patrolled revisions

[Anthony]

I've been out of the loop since January-ish, so I was pleased to see
that some headway has been made on implementing FlaggedRevs. I see
that a two-month trial on enwiki has been approved by the community:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Poll

But I also see that the implementation has been languishing in
flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org pretty much since then. Mutterings on
foundation-l suggest that we're close to a finished product that can
be taken to trial on enwiki, with William Pietri from the tech team
saying this week that his "understanding is that [it] is almost done".

At risk of seeming impatient, my question is this: exactly _how_ close
are we? I'm quite certain that if the extension was installed today,
by tomorrow our community would have the interface and system-message
problems ironed out. What takes a team of ten or so a few months to
perfect would take a team of hundreds much shorter, surely?

We've waited so long for FlaggedRevs. I'm now struggling to see what
the delay is. Hoping that somebody who is a bit more knowledgeable on
this can provide an update.

AGK