On 9/7/07, brion@svn.wikimedia.org brion@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
They force operational work before we can update the software again
Do they? I assumed that Wikimedia updates didn't actually run update.php, with schema changes done manually instead. I deliberately committed nothing that depended on them, so if you updated the rest of the software nothing would break from not doing the schema change until you're ready. I was going to commit code actually using the new stuff only after the schemas were updated, presumably in another batch some time from now. What's problematic in that scenario?