On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Is there anything specific in the communications involved that you found > > was problematic, other than a failure to include a backlink in the > initial > > revert? > > > > I think this entire thing was a big failure in basic software development > and systems administration. If MobileFrontend is so tightly coupled with > the desktop login form, that is a problem with MobileFrontend. As noted already in the thread, the commit was broken for non-JS users as well as for mobile; it's not a deficiency in MobileFrontend specifically. > In addition, > the fact that a practically random code change was launched into production > an hour later without so much as a test... Aha -- this seems to strike to the heart of the matter. Would you agree this incident has more to do with problems with the branch deployment scheduling than with commit warring? -- brion That's the kind of thing that > gets people fired at other companies. > > But apparently I'm the only person that thinks this, so the WMF can feel > free to do what it wants. > > *-- * > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 > Major in Computer Science > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
