Like Amir said, it was announced a week ago. There were no objections.
There were very few comments on the test2 deployment, probably because the Labs deployment served the same purpose.
What we want from the mediawiki.org deployment is to start building a community of people who will convert templates to Lua, not just because they want to help us test the software, but also because they want to get useful things done. Their comments will help to drive future development.
Our goal is to deploy this extension to all Wikimedia wikis. If you don't like that idea, now would be a good time to say something.
The schedule for deployment has not yet been decided. It will depend on what bug reports and feature requests are submitted by the early adopters. Performance issues may be found, once we have real-world test cases. We will need to decide how much extra development work is needed before a full-scale rollout.
It's been over a year since I started work on Lua support. From the outset, I wanted it to be a project with a constrained scope, a project that can be brought to completion, instead of trailing off into vapour. I wanted to make something happen.
So my inclination is to push for deployment with a minimum of additional development work. But I'm not the target audience; my inclinations have to be weighed against the needs of the users.
-- Tim Starling
On 22/08/12 18:01, Yury Katkov wrote:
Hi Tim!
Would you mind you please tell me where
- the discussion about deploying Lua on mw.org ,
- the announcement that it will be deployed on mw.org on Aug 22.
- the roadmap and plans of further deployment of Scribunto on
Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects
...took place? I'm sure that such discussions has taken place somewhere, because if not - that's not very mature behavior for open source developer team.
Yury Katkov
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Lua is now enabled on www.mediawiki.org.
Note that this is not a temporary deployment. You can rewrite existing templates to use Lua, we're not going to break them by turning it off again.
-- Tim Starling
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