Yep. From the team manager perspective. Antoine from the technical perspective (when he's back from paternity leave, Dan Duvall and Bryan and Reedy until then).
-- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Sep 5, 2014 4:08 PM, "Ryan Kaldari" <[email protected]> wrote: > So did we ever decide who the official point person for Beta Labs issues > is? Greg? > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Maryana Pinchuk <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Greetings, QAers, >> >> I'm not entirely sure who the point person for Beta Labs is currently, >> but I wanted to make sure you guys are aware that there have been a lot of >> issues (i.e., partial or total outages) with this environment in the past >> 2-3 weeks, most likely due to ongoing HHVM work. Unfortunately, because >> several teams at WMF rely quite heavily on Beta Labs – such as Mobile Web >> for testing new user-facing features before they go live in production, and >> Design/UX for running remote and in-person user tests – this is not so >> great. For example, the outage during Wikimania was particularly bad >> because Abbey was hosting a UX testing table during the conference that had >> scripted user tests all pointing to Beta Labs, so she was unable to run any >> of those tests and lost out on valuable user testing time. >> >> To avoid situations like this in the future, is there a way for teams who >> use Beta Labs for testing to stay in closer sync with its maintainers? I >> realize y'all aren't mind-readers ;) and there will of course be unexpected >> issues that crop up from time to time. But if there are likely to be more >> major breaking changes to the infrastructure while you continue working on >> HHVM, it would be great to get an advanced heads-up so we can plan >> accordingly. And when unexpected outages do occur, it'd also be good to >> know who to report them to and check in on progress with, because I'm not >> sure the current strategy of whining and hoping it'll fix itself is >> working/sane/scalable :) >> >> I don't know how this would work ideally (regular updates to a >> new/existing mailing list? dropping in on a new/existing IRC channel? a >> wiki page? some combo of all three?) but am open to any & all ideas! And as >> a start, it would be good if those of you currently tasked with maintaining >> Beta Labs could give a virtual wave – I *think* I know who you are, but >> Abbey's new and almost certainly doesn't ;) >> >> -- >> Maryana Pinchuk >> Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation >> wikimediafoundation.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > QA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa > >
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