On 13 April 2012 04:52, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > During the 1.19 cycle, there were some namespace names that were changed > and then reverted shortly before deployment. We're about to deploy > 1.20wmf1 to a lot of international wikis on Wednesday of next week, and I'm > a little worried that we may need to do a speedy revert again.
I'm worried about lots of stuff, this thing is near the bottom of that list. > Two concerns: > 1. Do the new namespace names have community consensus? What I've heard > though the grapevine is that yes, there has been an effort to get > consensus, but confirmation of that would be nice. Since when is consensus required for software or localisation changes? However, long time ago I talked with Tim who reverted the original change. I also proposed a solution (post notifications to all affected Wikipedias) [1] but got no comments on that. I decided to execute the plan anyway [2] and we got positive feedback, negative feedback and no feedback at all for some languages. For the negative feedback I did some reverts [3,4]. There is always guaranteed to be someone who doesn't like the changes. However, after our request for feedback I am pretty sure that we have avoided the most unwanted changes. I'm assuming good faith for the rest of the namespace changes. > 2. For each namespace that was changed, was there a corresponding alias > set up? Rumor has it that there might be a few cases where that isn't the > case. Here are some facts instead: * Only reported issue I am aware of is at [1], which doesn't look problematic to me * Tim who originally reverted the commit approved it again [2] * I and Siebrand have double checked the commit > We should get this sorted out before we push on Wednesday. As far as I am concerned everything is fine and ready for deployment -Niklas [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/107309 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/3318 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/4390 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/4648 -- Niklas Laxström _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
