Rob Lanphier wrote:
Assuming we can either get these fixed, or agree they aren't blockers, I say we set a date and go. Should we plan on sometime in July (say a week or two after Wikimania)?
Your e-mail was unclear to me. It's difficult to tell whether you just looked at the blockers of bug 27478 or if you read (all of) the bug's comments (and the related previous mailing list discussions about this).
Are you following the deployment plan outlined by Roan here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27478#c18? (It was a follow-up to Aryeh's post here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-June/053775.html.
As I understand it, the "enable HTML5 on Wikimedia wikis" goal has become a bit murky. There's $wgHtml5, but that's distinct from setting the doctype (which is what I think most people consider to be the most relevant part). It's unclear how many features (or more pointedly how many lines of additional code) are dependent on this configuration variable, which was part of the reason Aryeh laid out the deployment plan he did.
It's also unclear whether every issue reported in the comments of bug 27478 were filed as separate bugs. In particular, I'm unsure if Cite was ever properly fixed (or if Aryeh's mentioned alternate, stop-gap solution was implemented). As I recall, the Cite breakage was breaking links in articles.
MZMcBride